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A man beheaded his 18-year-old daughter and walked to a nearby Police Station in North India carrying his head, not agreeing with the relationship that she had with a young man, according to official sources reported to Efe on Thursday.
A video of the man in his 40s marching to surrender to the authorities with his daughter’s head in hand was shown on Indian television in a new case of violence against women in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
“The defendant saw his daughter in a compromising position with a young man and, upon seeing him, he lost his cool and he beheaded his own daughter “said Anurag Vats, the superintendent of Police for the Hardoi district where the incident took place yesterday.
According to the source, the resident of the town of Pandeytara “was detained while on his way to surrender.”
The state of Uttar Pradesh has been the frequent scene of cases of violence against women, events that have generated great indignation throughout the country.
Frequent attacks on women
At the end of February, three young “untouchables” or Dalits, from the lowest echelons of the Hindu caste system, they were poisoned by a jilted young man, causing the death of two of them, after the older rejected it on Valentine’s Day.
A court sentenced a BJP regional MP to life imprisonment in December 2019 for the rape in Unnao two years before a teenager, in a case in which the girl’s father also died due to the alleged beating of followers of the politician.
That same year, also in Unnao, another woman she was charred to death on her way to testify against her alleged rapists.
And last September, in the latest case in Uttar Pradesh to reach major media coverage across the country, a young Dalit was allegedly gang-raped and seriously injured in a village by upper-caste men.
The young woman died weeks later from her injuries in a hospital in New Delhi and in the middle of the night she was transferred to her village, where she was incinerated by the police without family consent nor the possibility of officiating a wake, as denounced.
These cases underscore an endemic problem. According to the latest data from the National Crime Registration Agency of India (NCRB), in 2018, 33,977 rapes were reported in the country, of which 2,957 were to low-caste women, more than 8 a day.
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