Five members of a family were on Friday awarded the death sentence in an honour killing case by a sessions court here for the “cold blooded, brutal murders through electrocution” of their daughter and her lover in 2010 for their plan to marry.
The family of the girl Asha was disappointed with the verdict.
Her uncle Chintu, who is taking care of Asha’s siblings, said, “They (the court) should have thought about the children (of Asha’s mother) before pronouncing the death sentence. I am taking care of them, but they do need their mother’s love”.
Chintu, shocked at the death sentence, said: “The entire family has been sentenced to death. Who will now take care of her children? The children, one five-year-old and the other aged about seven, are already working in others’ houses and public places.”
“We are poor but we still managed to collect around Rs 5 to 6 lakhs during the trial to pay for the legal expenses. We will appeal against the sentence in the high court and if we do not get a reprieve, we will approach the Supreme Court. If that also fails, we will file mercy petitions in Rashtrapati Bhavan,” he said.
He also claimed that the deceased girl Asha and her boyfriend were not killed by her family.
“There was a loose electric wire lying on the floor which was used by the boy, Yogesh, to kill himself and Asha,” he said.
“How can a mother kill her own daughter? It is not even imaginable. People should know that the relationship between a mother and her daughter is stronger than any other,” Asha’s uncle Chintu said.