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| Three held over teen lovers' murder |
| 2003-03-06 |
| Police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have charged three Muslim men with the murders of two teenage lovers - a Muslim girl and a Hindu boy. The police say the teenagers died when they were attacked with sticks, batons and iron rods. The incident took place at Sarendhi village, about 70 kilometres from Agra, where the Taj Mahal is located. A senior police officer in Agra, VK Maurya, told the BBC that the couple, who belonged to the same village, had been seeing each other for some time. Mr Maurya said their families and other villagers opposed this relationship. "The incident took place on Wednesday night when the girl's three brothers came home and saw the couple together," he said. "The three brothers killed them." This sort of barbarism is so routine it's actually become tiresome. There's a special place in Hell for people with such teeny-tiny, submicroscopic souls... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |