Honor Killing: Three including father arrested for murder of daughter and her lover

Bhubaneswar (IANS). A man has been arrested along with two other relatives for the murder of his daughter and her lover in Odisha’s Kalahandi district. The police gave this information on Thursday.

Those arrested include the girl’s father Kaneshwar Patel, uncle Debanand Patel and brother-in-law Tankadhar Naik.

All three have been sent to court.

All three were allegedly involved in killing Jemamani Patel (20) and Sunil Patel (22). After the murder, their dead bodies were hanged near Banjipadar village.

Kalahandi Superintendent of Police Abhilash G said that after receiving a call on July 9, the police recovered the decomposed bodies of Jemamani and Sunil from a graveyard in Banjipadar village.

He said that during investigation it was found that there was a love affair between Jemamani and Sunil. Their family members were against their relationship as both were distant uncle and niece.

So they ran away from their homes on June 30 and hid in a dense sugarcane field, the police officer said.

After getting information about the ‘whereabouts’ of the couple, the three accused reached the sugarcane field and strangled them to death.

They then took Jemamani and Sunil to a nearby crematorium and hanged them to make it look like a case of suicide, the police officer said.

Besides, on July 2, the girl’s father Kaneshwar Patel lodged a missing complaint at the police station to mislead the police, he said.