Teen girl, 34-year-old lover clubbed to death by kin in Lucknow

TNN | Apr 6, 2020, 07:02 IST

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LUCKNOW: A 34-year-old man and his 18-year-old lover were beaten to death by the girl’s family when they found them alone in a room in Saadatganj on Sunday morning.
The girl’s body could not be taken for burial as all the four male members of her family were arrested for the murder and nobody came forward to complete formalities required for conducting postmortem examination. Her body is still lying in the mortuary. However, the man was buried late on Sunday.
“We will wait for the girl’s family members for three days and after that it would be declared as an ‘unclaimed’ body. Then it would be sent for an autopsy and after that be handed over to a voluntary organisation engaged in burial of unclamied bodies,” said Anil Kumar Yadav, assistant commissioner of police, Bazaarkhala.
Victim, Abdul Malik (34), a dairy owner, was living along with his parents, wife and four kids in Mansoor Nagar. Malik was having an affair with the girl, living about 100 metres away from his house in the same locality, Yadav said adding that the incident occurred around 2am on Sunday when elder brother of the girl Mohammad Danish (22) found the couple in a compromising position in a room of his house. Danish started screaming at them.
Hearing the noise, other members of the family, including girl’s father Mohammad Usman (52), uncle Sulemani (55) and cousin Rano (30), rushed to the spot and they all started beating up Malik with canes and bricks. When the girl tried to intervene, they also assaulted her, the ACP added.
Malik, somehow, managed to call his friend Wasi who also lives in the neighbourhood. Wasi called the police, but by the time the police could reach the spot, the girl’s father and other family members kept on assaulting her and the man till they fell unconscious.
The police immediately rushed profusely bleeding Malik and the girl to King George’s Medical University’s Trauma Centre where doctors declared them brought dead, Yadav added.