- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
IN what is suspected to be a case of ‘honour killing’, a teenager allegedly beheaded his pregnant sister older to him and also clicked a selfie with the woman’s severed head and showed it to the neighbours. They did it to her for having married a man without the family’s consent and getting pregnant.
The spine-chilling incident has happened in Aurangabad district of the western Indian state of Maharashtra and the police arrested the accused. It has also been suspected that the mother of the siblings was also involved in the act.
The deceased woman named Kirti Thore, aged 19, was making tea for her brother Sanjay Mote, two years junior to her, and mother Shobha Mote when they attacked her with a sickle and killed her. The brother and his mother then surrendered to police, it was reported.
Sanjay was sent to a remand home for juveniles after his lawyer said that he was yet to become an adult. The police, however, said that they would contest the claim in the court since they had found a certificate that declared him to be an adult. Shobha was sent to police custody.
A police officer told Indian news channel NDTV that the duo tried to kill Kirti’s husband Avinash, who was lying ill at their house where the murder took place. He, however, escaped. Sanjay surrendered to the police soon after.
Sanjay and Sobha visited Kirti’s house on Sunday (5) and attacked her from behind when she went to the kitchen to prepare tea for them.
Kirti reportedly eloped with Avinash, then her college sweetheart, in June and married him secretly since her family did not support it because he was poorer than their family, BBC Marathi reported.
