Man Slits Niece's Throat For Marrying Man Of Other Caste In UP's Sitapur, Surrenders

The man surrendered at a UP police station after he slit the throat of his niece in a suspected honour killing.

The woman’s uncle Shyamu Singh did not approve of the relationship and had sent her to Ghaziabad.

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A man killed his niece by slitting her throat in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur in a suspected case of honour killing, said police, as reported by PTI. The man came to her house and dragged her, slit her throat. Later, he surrendered himself to the police along with the murder weapon. The woman had eloped and married a man from another caste, the police told PTI. She was married for a little over six months. The incident took place at Bajnagar village under the Pisawan Police Circle here.

According to the Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Sitapur, NP Singh, the 20-year-old woman had an affair with Roop Chandra Maurya, who belonged to the same village.

The woman’s uncle Shyamu Singh did not approve of the relationship and had sent her to Ghaziabad where her father Putan Singh Tomar worked. But after a few months, she eloped with Maurya and in November last year, she married him at a court.

Singh said that Maurya and the woman returned to the village a few days ago. On Saturday, her uncle reached the house where the couple was living, dragged the woman out and slit her throat with a sickle. He then surrendered himself at the Pisavan police station along with the murder weapon, NP Singh said.

Just a few months ago, a 22-year-old woman was murdered and buried by her family over her affair with a man and defiance against the marriage fixed by her family. The woman was strangled to death by her father and three brothers. According to Times Of India, the woman’s body was buried in a neighbouring empty house. She reportedly had an affair with a 23-year-old guy named Karan Singh. The victim’s family did not approve of their relationship. 

The incident surfaced, after a local reportedly saw the girl’s family bury her body. Then informed the police, who exhumed the body and sent it for postmortem. The police registered a case against the accused under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including sections 302 and 201.