Friday, August 21, 2009

Hindu man butchered in Meerut village for falling in love with a Muslim girl

aug 21st, 2009

why no hindu men marry mohammedan women, even if they are cute: they get their heads cut off.

remember the hue and cry about some mohammedan guy in calcutta who had married a hindu girl, and someone bumped him off?

of course, this news item will get zero airplay. i am amazed that china's national magazine has run it. what, peking and mohammedans not so happy with each other any more?

moral: mohammedan women are mohammedan property. hindu women are negotiable. yup, got to ramp up the baby factories.

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From: Ravi


Hindu man butchered in Meerut village for falling in love with a Muslim girl
 
 
 
NINETEEN-year-old Babitha of Kinanagar village in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh had a different kind of Raksha Bandhan (a Hindu festival when girls seek the promise of protection from those they consider their brothers) this year. On August 5 [2009], she got up early as usual, had a bath, dressed up, took out the sanctified rakhi thread and went up to tie it on the photograph of her younger brother Manoj. She then burst out crying. According to her relatives and neighbours, Babitha kept on alternately crying and getting angry throughout the day, clutching the photograph tied with the rakhi. In earlier years, she had celebrated the festival – hailed as the ultimate religious and ritualistic observance of the relationship between brothers and sisters – tying the rakhi on her brother's wrist and he used to shower her with gifts.

Manoj was in love with Afsana, a Muslim girl of the same locality. On July 10 [2009], Afsana's brothers and cousins allegedly killed Manoj and Afsana in what is believed to be an honour killing provoked by a love affair between Afsana and the Dalit boy.

Afsana's brothers Javed Khan and Rashid Khan and her cousins Wasim Khan and Suhaib Khan were arrested in the days immediately following the murder on the basis of the first information report (FIR No. 113-202/09) filed at the nearby Bhawanpur police station. The FIR holds the four youth – in the age group of 18 to 22 – responsible for the double murder. As per the FIR, Manoj was told on the fateful morning that Afsana wanted to meet him at her home. He was attacked when he reached her house in response to the message. Interestingly, there are no eyewitnesses to the murder, which took place in broad daylight, around 10 a.m. However, villagers do drop sufficient hints about the sequence of events that led to the murder.

According to Lakhanpal, a resident of Kinanagar, the parents of Manoj and Afsana were close friends. "Both were agricultural labourers and used to work together. The elder daughters of the two families, Babitha and Salma, used to do agricultural errands together for landlords in and around the village. Afsana and Manoj were the relatively better educated in the two families and used to exchange educational notes. (Afsana had passed Class 10 while Manoj was in Plus 2.) The families had free access to each other's house and were constantly interacting socially."

Lakhanpal and other villagers added that there was a minor altercation a few days before the murder between Manoj and Afsana's brothers over Rs.1,000 borrowed by the latter from the former. But they also add that there was no way a matter of a thousand rupees would have led to such a gruesome double murder. At the same time, they also do not confirm or state emphatically that Manoj and Afsana were in a relationship. "Who knows what the reason is" is their refrain. The villagers also express a sense of relief that both the girl and the boy are dead; for, had just one of them been killed it could have caused a communal situation not only in the village but also in the surrounding areas.

A senior police officer operating out of western Uttar Pradesh told Frontline that the atmosphere in Kinanagar, including the reaction of the villagers as a whole, reveals the many facets of the honour killing. "The lack of witnesses to a daylight murder, the studied silence and the sense of relief at things being under control, are all part of it. But an official probe cannot proceed on the basis of a theory of circumstances. It has to rely on more concrete evidence, which need not necessarily come up in every investigation," he pointed out.

 
 

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