The girl’s body has not yet been recovered, but the police have taken the parents into custody. The accused parents told the police theirdaughter had brought shame and disgrace upon the family.
Meerut. A sensational case of honour killing by drowning has come to light in Meerut district of UP where a mother and father pushed their 11-year-old daughter into a canal alive and left her to drown as a punishment for laughing and talking to boys, according to a report on a social media.
The girl’s body has not as yet been recovered, but the police have taken the parents into custody. The accused parents told the police their daughter had brought shame and disgrace upon the family.
The incident is from the police station Ganganagar area of Meerut, where Bablu, who works as a recovery agent of banks, lives in Ganganagar with his wife and his 11-year-old daughter Chanchal.
According to the police, Babloo had filed a report of Chanchal’s disappearance a few days ago.
Police investigations however revealed that Chanchal was taken away by his parents themselves. After rigorous interrogation, the parents broke down in and confessed to the crime.
Bablu told the police that his 11-year-old daughter’s behaviour had become “unbecoming. She used to laugh and talk to boys and make indecent gestures”. For this she was scolded many times, but to no avail, so they took her to the Ganges canal and pushed her alive into the canal.
The SP (Rural) Keshav Kumar Mishra said the parents, Babloo and Ruby, had gone for an outing with their daughter from where she had mysteriously disappeared. Contradictory statements by the parents when they were questioned separately, aroused the suspicions of the police.
Eventually, the police were able to extract a confession of how they had thrown their daughter into the nearby canal and left her to drown.
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