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Father kills young daughter, remains
remorseless
WSN Network
Mandi Ahmedgarh: In a shocking incident, a father shot dead
his young daughter with his licensed weapon simply because he could
not come to terms with her relationship with a boy and then claimed
he had done something to be proud of. Inderjot Kaur (17) died on the
spot. She and her father were alone at home and he seems to have
been drunk when he shot her but later said "such girls should be
done to death."
The killer, 60-year-old Nirmal Singh shot two bullets with
his licensed .315 bore rifle, both hitting her. He had earlier been
acquitted in many murder cases and was arrested soon after killling
his own daughter.
The incident exposes many gaping chinks in the way law and
order system operates in India where those repeatedly getting
entangled in murder cases are not required to be named, murder case
accused can continue to hold licensed weapons, and false notions of
family honour remain deeply entrenched in a society irrespective of
economic development, exposure to the outside world and belonging to
a religion that accords highest respect to women.
The victim's mother Narinder Kaur has told the police that
Inderjot Kaur and Beant Singh had fallen in love two years ago and
had eloped from the village a year back, returning only recently.
They had stayed in
Malaysia and
Thailand during this period. The mother and the brother of the girl
had made their peace with the relationship but the father, Nirmal
Singh, remained seething with anger and at one stage even started
living with a relative in Ludhiana, unable to swallow his own
family's acceptance of Beant Singh. He returned two weeks ago but it
is not clear why the family left the girl alone with such a person,
that too armed.
Of course the girl being a minor, the marriage had not been
solemnised so far.
The mother was out on an errand to the market when the
incident happened. As she returned, Inderjot Kaur lay in a pool of
blood and Nirmal Singh stood in the vehra with his rifle in hand, no
remorse on his face and a proud claim on his lips that he had set
everything right by killing the girl "who brought shame to the
family."
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February 2009
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