Girl’s father, guard held for Delhi honour killing
The Delhi police claimed it had cracked another honour killing case in the city with the arrest of a man who has been charged for allegedly strangulating his daughter and her lover to death in the New Friends Colony area last Saturday.
The police said the deceased had been identified as Hari Lal, 25, a jat resident of Jalandhar, and Bimal, 22, a Christian and native of Bihar’s West Champaran. Bimal’s father Edward, who works as a labourer, was arrested along with a security guard, Ruben Joseph. The two have been charged with the couple’s murder.
The police had recovered SIM cards which helped to trace the dead couple’s family members. The bodies of the two were found in a park near Shankar Market in New Friends Colony’s B block last Saturday.
“They were strangulated for the honour of their caste and religion. The couple were in love and wanted to get married. Bimal had arranged Hari Lal’s meeting with her family members on Saturday evening at a building under construction in the NFC area on Saturday,” a senior police official said.
But when Edward reached the place where the meeting was planned — B-434 New Friends Colony — at around 7 pm on Saturday, he allegedly found his daughter in a compromising position with Hari Lal, and got agitated. “He could not resist the humiliation and started thrashing Lal,” the police official said.
“At this point, Ruben entered the room and helped Edward in strangulating Lal. When Bimal started shouting for help, she was also strangulated by the two. The accused then burnt the shawl and took out the bodies one by one in the night to the park in a bag, and dumped them under layers of grass and soil,” said additional commissioner of police (southeast) Virender Singh Chahal.
The police said Hari Lal, who came to Delhi in 2007, was earlier married to Poonam and had a three-year-old son. He was working at an iron factory. Bimal was working as a domestic help at a businessman’s house in New Friends Colony.
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