Man arrested for killing his daughter for ‘honour’ in UP

PRAYAGRAJ: A 58-year-old man was arrested on Monday for allegedly killing his 19-year-old daughter and secretly burying her body in Hindpur village near Karchana in UP's Allahabad district, police said.
As per police, it appeared to be a case of honour killing as the man, identified as Lallan Ali, was annoyed over her relations with a Mirzapur-based youth.
Ali was booked under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the IPC.
ACP (Karchana) Ajeet Singh Chauhan told TOI, “The series of incidents unfolded since February 25 when one of the daughters of Ali along with his lover and a younger sister had escaped to Mumbai.”
He added, “The girl had befriended the youth through a social networking site and decided to elope to Mumbai. However, when the daughters realised that they had no money to stay in Mumbai, they called up their stepbrother and asked to reach Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai to pick them up. The stepbrother then brought his sisters back to Hindpur on March 2. But the girl didn’t stop talking to her boyfriend despite stern warning from father who even destroyed her mobile phone.”
The ACP added, “On the intervening night of March 23 and 24, Lallan found that she was talking to someone on the phone. He became suspicious and they had a heated argument following which he strangled her and struck her with an electric heater, resulting in her death on the spot. The accused then buried her body on March 24 in the cemetery.”
When neighbours became suspicious, they alerted police which exhumed the body and sent it for autopsy.
The autopsy report that came on Sunday revealed strangulation as the cause of death following which the man was arrested.
Police said Ali’s first wife, with whom he had had two sons Rahim and Munna, died some years back.
After that, Lallan had remarried and had two daughters Chadani (19) and another minor daughter with her second wife.