A man is accused of brutally murdering his 16-year-old daughter in a heartbreaking instance of honor killing in Muchhal village near Amritsar due to worries about her moral behavior.
As if that weren’t enough, he displayed his daughter’s body through the community on a motorcycle before dumping it on a railroad track. and apprehended the father involved in the horrific incident.
Body found by police
The victim’s body was found by the police, and apprehended the father involved in the horrific incident.
According to sources, the girl had been missing for the previous two days and search efforts had been fruitless. On Thursday, though, she unexpectedly went back home. Tragically, her father’s response changed horribly; it is said that he became enraged, grabbed her by the hair, dragged her out of the house, and then attacked her with a sharp object, killing her.
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Residents reported the incident
Residents in the area told the police about the occurrence after seeing the entire act.
According to sources, the girl had been missing for the previous two days and search efforts had been fruitless. On Thursday, though, she unexpectedly went back home.
According to several sources, the father paraded through the the village with the body of his daughter strapped to his motorcycle before riding to the railroad tracks with the apparent goal of laying the body there to simulate a train collision. However, a CCTV camera recorded the entire encounter.
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The father can be seen using his motorcycle to drag the body of his dead daughter in the video.
Satidner Singh, a senior superintendent of police in Amritsar’s rural division, verified the occurrence and said that police had found the body of the unfortunate girl and had taken her father into custody. Strangely, he claimed that the victim’s family was not even prepared to file a complaint. But he added that police had opened an inquiry.
The individual was presented in court on Friday. The unrepentant father stated in court while dressed in Nihang’s robes: “My daughter had spent a day and a night in someone else’s house, and I am a man of dignity.”
A warning to young females
He claimed that young ladies from Muchhal had experienced similar incidents in the past, but their families had imprisoned them when they returned home.
When questioned about dragging his dead daughter’s body around the community, he defended his decision by saying it would serve as a warning to other young females.
He was given a one-day police hold by the court, and on Saturday he would appear in court once more.
No remorse on his actions
The accused said when he was brought before the court on Friday that he didn’t want to be like other parents in the town who would at most “confine their daughters” if they did something inappropriate. He was arrested a day after witnesses reported the crime. The man, dressed in traditional Nihang garb, declared, “I am a man of dignity.” The father claimed that he did not regret what he did and that it was done to prevent other females from supposedly doing what his daughter allegedly did. He was kept in police detention for a day by the court.
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