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Two
brothers get 4 years in jail in honor issue
WSN Network
LONDON: A British court has sentenced two Sikh
brothers to four years' imprisonment for kidnapping and threatening
their sister's boyfriend. Avtar Gohlan (21) and Jagdeep (17),
hailing from Middlesex, were pleaded guilty at the Coventry Crown
Court for kidnapping the unnamed boyfriend and threatening him with
a ceremonial knife.
The prosecution said the duo's 19-year-old
sister, studying in Coventry, was having a secret relationship with
a 26-year-old man which the brothers allegedly did not approve of.
The girl, it seems, went back to India and found she was pregnant.
Her brothers told her to have an abortion.
On February 12, the couple went to a police
station in Coventry and while the sister was being interviewed, the
victim went to meet her two brothers. It is here that the brothers
turned upon the victim. Avtar is alleged to have grabbed him round
the throat.
The brothers made the victim get in a car to take
them to their sister. The victim directed them to the police station
where their sister was being interviewed, so they let him go and
drove off, he added.
Pronouncing the punishment, Judge Peter Ross
said: "(The victim) was terrified and believed that if he had taken
you to your sister he would have been killed, she would have been
taken prisoner and some forced abortion would have taken place."
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July, 2008
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