This is the second dishonorable murder case that has been reported in Haryana in three days.
Chandigarh / New Delhi:
In a second “dishonorable murder” case of Haryana in the past three days, Neeraj, 23, was allegedly stabbed to death by his brothers-in-law who were against his sister’s inter-caste love marriage.
The incident took place in the busy Panipat market late Friday night, and the defendant can be seen fleeing on CCTV footage.
Although the police have brought a case in the matter, they have yet to arrest the defendant who stabbed Neeraj at least a dozen times.
According to the author and Neeraj’s older brother Jagdeesh, the accused had called the victim minutes before the attack and requested a meeting. He added that they had even called his sister saying “you will cry soon”.
“They had been threatening my brother for a long time and we had sought police protection, but our request was ignored. They called us again to tell us there will be more deaths,” said Jagdeesh standing outside the morgue, accusing the police of inaction.
In the background, her father could be seen sobbing.
“The woman and the man’s families had agreed to the marriage and this was given in writing at a village panchayat meeting. But the woman’s brothers did not approve and had been threatening the couple,” said the deputy superintendent of Police Satish Kumar Vats.
More police investigations are underway, he added.
It was only a month and a half ago that Neeraj’s marriage was solemnized and a village-level meeting had been convened several times in this regard.
The incident comes shortly after a daylight shooting case in Rohtak, where a young woman’s uncle shot her dead and left her fiancé seriously injured hours before they were married in court.
Although both the woman and the man were from the Jat community, they were from different villages.
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