The honour killing of a minor woman seven months in the past got here to gentle solely not too long ago after a Karnataka court docket directed the woman’s father to supply her earlier than it.
The case is from the Raichur district in Karnataka. The police on Saturday introduced that they’ve arrested the daddy for the minor woman’s homicide.
In line with the police, the homicide accused is a farmer from the Kuruba neighborhood, and his 17-year-old daughter was in a relationship with an individual known as Hanumantha, who hails from a Scheduled Tribe group. The couple had eloped final yr to get married, however have been caught by the woman’s household.
Thereafter, the daddy of the woman had filed a case in opposition to Hanumantha, and the latter was booked below the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act. Hanumantha was arrested however was launched on bail three months later.
The daddy of the woman reportedly requested her to discontinue the connection owing to Hanumantha’s “decrease caste” standing, however the woman objected to it.
On September 29, 2024, the farmer, his spouse and the minor woman had gone to their farm. The mom of the woman returned dwelling early. It has been learnt that, thereafter, an argument broke out between the daddy and the daughter over her relationship, and the previous hit the minor woman’s head with a stone, leading to her dying. Later, the accused carried the physique on a two-wheeler and dumped it within the Krishna River. The person reportedly threatened his spouse to not inform anybody in regards to the dying.
The incident got here to gentle when the court docket requested the prosecution to direct the sufferer to look earlier than the court docket within the Pocso case. A police officer mentioned, “We requested the daddy to convey the woman to court docket, however he gave obscure causes and didn’t seem for 3 hearings.”
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The court docket then directed that the minor woman should seem in court docket proceedings. The person then claimed that his daughter was lacking, so the court docket requested the police to register a lacking individual’s case. It was solely throughout the probe of the case that it was revealed that the farmer had killed his daughter.
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