HISAR: A (court) on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing his sister to protect the “honour” of the family. The court had convicted him six days ago and declared the case as ‘rarest of rare’.
This is not the first honour killing case in where has been awarded.
In the Manoj-Babli case, a Karnal district court had in March 2010 awarded death sentence to five of Babli‘s family members for killing the couple.
However, in March 2011, the Punjab and Haryana high court commuted the death sentence of four convicts to life term.
In his 28-page conviction order and 7-page order on the quantum of sentence, additional district and sessions judge Pankaj said “there is overwhelming circumstantial evidence to show that the accused committed the crime as he felt that he was dishonoured by his sister.”
‘Honour killing well planned murder’
The order termed the honour killing as “well planned murder” due to inter-caste marriage. The judge said, “If the crime is committed so brutally that it pricks or shocks not only judicial conscience but even conscience of the society, it can be treated as an aggravated circumstance.”
Kiran, a resident of Jugalan village of Hisar had married Rohtash, a resident of Siswal village of Hisar in the Sanatan Dharma Charitable Trust on August 8, 2015.
When Kiran’s family came to know about the wedding, they killed and cremated her.
Acting on a complaint, police had exhumed her remains for examination and arrested victim’s brother, Ashok. A case was registered at Hisar’s Sadar police station on February 14, 2017.
Sanjay Chauhan, chairman of Sanatan Dharma Charitable Trust, where Kiran got married to Rohtash, said the police did not make him a witness even though the couple had given him a note saying that their families were threatening their lives.
The note also specified that if they could not be found, then it should be understood that they have been murdered, said Chauhan.
He said he filed a petition in the court through his advocate and the court accepted his plea and accepted his testimony.
Source: cardinalweekly.com, Robert Shackelford, December 6, 2018
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