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My parents murdered by husband, says this girl
WSN Network

BATALA: She married the boy for love. Her parents never liked the boy, would fire gun shots outside their house and chased them from town to town. Finally, they killed the boy in cold blood. Now she wants her own parents to be arrested and tried for murder. This is the story of an honor killing, part of a pattern being increasingly noticed in Punjab.

Jatinder Kaur of Nawa Pind, whose husband was killed for honour by her family, has accused the Batala police of stalling arrests under political influence. Her husband was killed on August 11. She said she had wed Gurpreet Singh, a resident of Saidmubarak village, a year-and-a-half back, against her family's wishes. They severed all ties with her and threats followed. Jatinder said they would often fire gunshots outside her in-laws' home and compelled them to break ties with the couple out of fear.

"My husband and I moved to Amritsar, then Jalandhar, moving from one town to another to dodge them but every time we visited our in-laws, they would try to assault us," said Jatinder.

Their repeated appeals for police protection went unheard, she added.

"My family tried to assault us when we came to get our marriage registered at Punjab and Haryana High Court in Chandigarh as well, but the UT police came to our rescue," said the girl. Gurpreet was shot on the way to his fields early morning August 11.

9 September 2009
 

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