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Man Beheads Daughter In ‘Honour Killing’
A FATHER who admitted beheading his daughter with a sword in a so-called ‘honour killing’ in northwestern India showed no remorse today when he was seen for the first time since the shocking incident.
Oghad Singh surrendered at a police station two days ago, carrying his daughter’s head in one hand and the bloodied ceremonial sword he had used to chop it off in the other.
Residents of Dungarji village in northwestern India expressed shock as they performed the last rites for the 20-year-old woman who had accused of sleeping around by her father.
Police said Mr Singh, a marble miner, accused his daughter of bringing dishonour to the family and of making it hard to find husbands for her two unmarried sisters.
Women wailing in grief lined the dusty road of the village in Rajasthan state as a procession carried Manju Kanwar’s remains to her funeral pyre.
As in many north and west Indian villages, the women, including her mother and four sisters, were not allowed to attend the funeral.
A coroner stitched Kanwar’s head onto her body for the funeral.
About 100 men, many of them relatives wearing ceremonial Rajput warrior clan turbans, surrounded her muslin-wrapped body, and her brother lit the funeral pyre.
Villagers condemned the father’s actions as extreme. They said the father, his shirt soaked in blood, had carried his daughter’s head through the village, describing what he’d done to neighbors.
Narayan Singh, a distant relative, said: ‘He told me that he took the sword out, and when the daughter was all alone in the house he beheaded her with a single stroke and the head fell on the ground.’
He said he persuaded Singh to surrender, and took him by motorcycle to a police station 2 miles away. Police charged Singh, 46, with murder.
Officer Ranjit Singh described the sight of the father sitting in the station’s waiting room holding the head in one hand and the sword in the other was ‘ghastly’.
He added: ‘Oghad admitted immediately that he killed his daughter because she had earned a bad name for the family.’
Police described Kanwar’s recent life as difficult and unorthodox for the traditional community of about 1,000 just outside the Rajasthani tourist town of Udaipur.
She left her husband from an arranged marriage two years ago and moved back home to live with her parents.
She recently began seeing several men which ‘disgusted’ her father, deputy police superintendent Umesh Ojha said.
‘Oghad said he was fed up with the lifestyle of his daughter,’ Ojha said.
When Manju eloped with one man two weeks ago, her father forced her to return on Sunday and killed her.
Rapidly modernizing India faces increasing social clashes as youths resist traditions like arranged marriage or limits on women venturing outside their parents’ or husbands’ homes.
The country is considered one of the harshest places in the world for women, with female infanticide and child marriage still common.
The U.N.’s gender inequality index places India second to last, above Saudi Arabia, based on labor, reproductive health, education and politics. The index does not consider issues of violence.
dailytelegraph
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on June 20, 2012. Filed under AROUND AFRICA.
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Kasman
June 20, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Punishment was too harsh. I am sure there are no prostitutes in India
VEN
June 20, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Good work my man.That’s the way to go..
Kamuzo
June 20, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Prostitution is an old profession and no race or tribe is exempt from this vice.We have to modernize and adapt otherwise will like in the 12th century.I am glad the West has gone past that.
kangwa kasonde
June 20, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Absurd!!! Whaatever your name is, you’ll surely rot in hell.
bazamuka
June 20, 2012 at 6:29 pm
india has prostitues-alot of them actually. this is gruesome, koma some cultures mwandi yaliko bad. murder vs prostitution (or infidelity) which one is the lesser evil. only God knows whether they are the same in terms of magnitude but anyway sin is sin. period. difficult world we live in.
Tonga Bull
June 20, 2012 at 6:35 pm
I wish it was me who died.There is nothing left for me.Im HIV+,mental disorder,my party upnd is finished coz members are now defecting to PF eg in Livingstone 80 upnd hav defected to join PF Oooh my GOD!!! life sucks.
Chipuba Sana
June 20, 2012 at 6:37 pm
Too bad! The man killer must be possessed by demons. No justification for this no matter where, when, what and why! Let them have his balls crushed!
dass
June 20, 2012 at 7:27 pm
LET’S DO THAT TO JANNET C AS WELL
NIKITA
June 20, 2012 at 7:39 pm
Sivintu ivi,why why!womens rights always infringed upon!
Mwalanga nyani
June 20, 2012 at 9:33 pm
@dass, what bone do you have to chew with janet c? Do you have an idea who this chap is? Jokes!? OK!!!!
mulozi wa niti
June 20, 2012 at 9:56 pm
Jst crush his balls so dat we make soup.foolish tiny demon.malete ahae
Mic
June 20, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Koma these pipo ar cruel cn imgine hw he choped off de head.beta cleanse de mind b4 u ar hunged.
Master & Mugu's
June 21, 2012 at 1:46 am
watch these for free online
- The Stoning of Soraya
- Born in Brothels
its typical for moslems & mwenyes to kill their daughters in the name of ‘keeping family honor’
they even do it in western countries where they’ve migrated to.. barbarians!!
Timz
June 21, 2012 at 6:36 am
wat was he thinking by giving such punishment to de daughter? Did he think he will live normal life there after or he thought of how hard he will labour in prison? What is better to have a daughter who is a prostititute or to be behind bars after taking God’s place of judging? Anyway mwasankha bawawa.
barnabas
June 21, 2012 at 8:46 am
he’s a flippin *****! let the fool be killed with a sword as well
Anel S
June 21, 2012 at 8:51 am
He was also admiring the ka girl.. i wish kenze kanga i cant kill bt xxxxx
dnice
June 21, 2012 at 10:12 am
honour killing my foot. no killing whatsoever can be honourable. this ***** will rot in jail. honour killing eh!!!
Phiri
June 21, 2012 at 10:16 am
Tonga Bull you are a normal person you are not the only one with HIV or with high levels of stress.Their are people who right now are suffering beyond control all i am begging you is to stop the insults thank you.
Losha iwe!
June 21, 2012 at 12:08 pm
@dass u hv made my day! kikikikikikikikiki!!! this janet thing awe is so irritating!
David
June 21, 2012 at 2:19 pm
could someone enlighten me on this Janet c issue please
kakolwe
June 21, 2012 at 4:28 pm
@David. Janet C is the best example of the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen. Her beauty is such that you cant even place her age. Evrywhere she goes heads turn (including women). Thing is when she opens her mouth or fingers to keypad, MAYOEEE! Even Bob Marley could have failed to analyse the stench. So Demented is her thought patterns such that ALL men run away like lightening. Luv you Jane!
Pulamasaka
June 21, 2012 at 5:14 pm
kill him as well..
Collins
June 22, 2012 at 12:47 am
Iwe chi TUMFWEKO will you ever listen. Waba ichimutwe ubukulu We want to hear about Zambian news not this foreign mwenye stories. To them this is no news at all as such incidences occur on a daily basis. That is their culture. So plz give us more news emanating frm our motherland Zed not otherwise. By the way mhsrip. As for the father let God be the judge and jury.
GMT
June 22, 2012 at 9:09 am
So now that the man has murdered his daughter, is he going to live happily thereafter? What demons can do!
Chewe
June 22, 2012 at 2:14 pm
I think the father hs also nt ok because he has just contributed to the bad reputation of the family. What a poor decision for a solution
dago
June 22, 2012 at 5:34 pm
abana tabomfwa.can run you mad at times..