Man held for killing daughter for ‘honour’

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 of Karchana, police said.
They said it appears to be a case of honour killing as the man identified as Lallan Ali was apparently annoyed over her relations with a Mirzapur-based youth.
Ali was booked under section 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of 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 escape to Mumbai. However, when the daughters realised that they had no money to stay in Mumbai, they called up their step brother and asked to reach Haji Ali Dargah to pick them up. The step brother then brought his sisters back to Hindpur on March 2. But the girl didn’t stop talking to her lover despite stern warning by father who even destroyed her mobile phone.”
The ACP added that “The accused became suspicious over his daughter’s activities and found that she was talking to someone on phone on the intervening night of March 23 and 24. 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 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, had died some years back. After that, Lallan had remarried and had two daughters Chadani (19) and another minor daughter with her second wife.