GADAG: The district court in Gadag in Karnataka sentenced on Friday four people to death in connection with a so-called “honour killing” in 2019.All four accused – Parashuram Rathod, Shivappa Rathod, Ravi Rathod, and Ramesh Rathod – were relatives of Gangamma Rathod, 23, who, along with her husband Ramesh Madar, 29, were murdered two years…
A 15-year-old girl was shot dead by her father and maternal uncle in an alleged honour killing in Pakistan‘s Quetta, after she refused to stop making TikTok videos, ARY news reported.The victim, identified as Hira, had been active on the social media platform, which enraged her father, Anwarul-Haq. After she refused to comply with his…
BHOPAL: In a suspected case of honour killing, a 20-year-old girl was shot dead by her father in Gwalior on Tuesday night. The deceased, identified as Tanu Gurjar, was shot by her father, Mahesh Gurjar, around 8pm at their residence in Adarsh Nagar, Maharajpura.Tanu, who was scheduled to marry another man on January 18, had…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday awarded 20-year jail term without remission to a man for strangulating his nine-month pregnant daughter to death for marrying a lower caste person against his wish in 2013 and commuted the death sentence given by trial court and Bombay HC, reports Amit Anand Choudhary.A bench of Justices Gavai, Aravind…
AGRA: Exactly four years after the murder and alleged sexual assault of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras, on Sept 14, 2020, the family has left the ashes of the victim unimmersed. They told TOI that they are still waiting for justice. They added that they continue to live in “jail-like conditions”, with restrictions on…
NEW DELHI: It was love at first sight for Amrita and Shubham (names have been changed to protect identities). They were of the same age and lived in the same neighbourhood in Bihar‘s Muzaffarpur. Amrita, a Class 12 student, met Shubham on the way to school and after classes too. However, their friendship was not…
