Indian teen girl kills father

Police arrested a teenage girl in eastern India on charges of killing her father and brother who opposed her affair with a lower-caste boy, in a reversal of the usual "honour killing" scenario.

According to police, the 14-year-old confessed Sunday after her arrest to mixing poison with a vegetable curry that she served to her father and younger brother who both died after consuming the dish.

The incident occurred on Saturday in Malpur village, 75 kilometers (45 miles) from Patna, the state capital of Bihar.

The girl's mother, Sunita Devi, told police she survived because she had been ill and refused to eat the food.

"The girl took this extreme step as her family members, including father, brother and mother, were... against her love affair with a boy and her plans to marry him," senior police officer Upendra Kumar Sinha told AFP.

The boy was a member of India's Dalit community.

Dalits, or "untouchables" as they used to be known, occupy the lowest rung in India's rigid caste hierarchy. Most live in poverty and do menial, supposedly "unclean" jobs like collecting garbage.

The girl's family, which belong to a higher caste, had previously beaten the boy when the couple were caught trying to elope.

Such incidents resulting from disputed inter-caste relationships more commonly see male family members murdering their daughter or sister for bringing "dishonour" on the family.

There are no official figures on honour killings, though an independent study in 2010 suggested as many as 900 were committed every year in the northern Indian states of Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.

Bihar is one of India's most impoverished and caste-ridden states.

Another ploolan devi in the making and while I disagree with her method , I understand

I hope all these Parents are now shaking in their Boots !  ::redface::

lovely....magnificent. kill deh skunt!  dat is exactly what i wud do in herr place...

and that is a lesson I hope muslim women learn too.  I cyar go to school, become a doctor, lawyer, teacher...

I cyar learn to drive a car!  I have to wear hoddies everyday.  all I cyan do is lay down and take prick, make babies and dat stuff..cyar voice an opinion, have ambition. go nowhere..nutten at all.....

look man parse the wine fuh here..or the vinegar!{deh doh have no wine in muslim house?}

deh wud be taking out the bodies every day if muslim women had that lil Indian girls attitude :grin: :grin: :grin:

[quote author=Kwami link=topic=67994.msg426018#msg426018 date=1341246646]
Another ploolan devi in the making and while I disagree with her method , I understand
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What is there to understand meh bredda??? A child only 14 cannot decide for themselves...so says the law.

At 14 she decide to tekk man of a lower Caste  ::redcard::

[quote author=ketchim link=topic=67994.msg426061#msg426061 date=1341253747]
At 14 she decide to tekk man of a lower Caste  ::redcard::
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Yes and she also decided to kill her family...so the decision process is what is flawed. She should have waited until the age of majority and then decide....however by killing her father and brother, and then getting involved with a dalit, her standing in life will suffer immeasurably. After all we all have to live by the decisions we make. Now she will be jailed.

[quote author=SCA link=topic=67994.msg426056#msg426056 date=1341253387]
What is there to understand meh bredda??? A child only 14 cannot decide for themselves...so says the law.
[/quote] I agree but she has become a martyr  for the injustices inflicted on my Dalits people

[quote author=Kwami link=topic=67994.msg426065#msg426065 date=1341254120]
I agree but she has become a martyr  for the injustices inflicted on my Dalits people
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A martyr??? Razz any idiot can be a martyr indeed.

She has managed to bring the question of caste into the discourse and for that she is a martyr