Katara murder was 'honour killing': Court
The murder of Nitish Katara by Vikas, son of controversial UP politician D P Yadav, and his cousin Vishal was described as "honour killing" and an "outcome of gender bias" by a Delhi court today which sentenced both the convicts to life imprisonme...
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: The murder of Nitish Katara by Vikas, son of controversial UP politician D P Yadav, and his cousin Vishal was described as "honour killing" and an "outcome of gender bias" by a Delhi court today which sentenced both the convicts to life imprisonment.
"The murder was an honour killing by the accused as they did not like their sister having an affair with the boy of different caste and they could have never accepted her plans to marry him," Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur said in the conviction judgement delivered on Wednesday.
"The murder was an outcome of prevalent gender bias," observed the court which had held Vikas and Vishal guilty for killing Katara six years ago for his intimacy with their sister Bharti Yadav.
Vikas, 35, and Vishal, a year younger, had kidnapped Katara on the night of February 16, 2002 from a marriage party in Ghaziabad and killed him. Vikas was opposed to his sister Bharti Yadav's intimacy with Katara.
The court which accepted the prosecution theory that it was the relationship between Katara and Bharti, which led to victim's abduction and killing said their intimacy was acceptable to elders in the Yadav family.
The case has to be understood "in the context of socio-cultural framework wherein some sections of the society repress socialization of girl right from their birth, ensures that they are kept unaware of their rights and are made to play subordinate to their brothers," the court said.
"It is not digested by the elder men of the family, particularly by the brothers, that a female exercises her right to chose a male partner of her choice which often leads to shocking and macabre consequences, as in the present case," the judge observed.
"The murder was an honour killing by the accused as they did not like their sister having an affair with the boy of different caste and they could have never accepted her plans to marry him," Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur said in the conviction judgement delivered on Wednesday.
"The murder was an outcome of prevalent gender bias," observed the court which had held Vikas and Vishal guilty for killing Katara six years ago for his intimacy with their sister Bharti Yadav.
Vikas, 35, and Vishal, a year younger, had kidnapped Katara on the night of February 16, 2002 from a marriage party in Ghaziabad and killed him. Vikas was opposed to his sister Bharti Yadav's intimacy with Katara.
The court which accepted the prosecution theory that it was the relationship between Katara and Bharti, which led to victim's abduction and killing said their intimacy was acceptable to elders in the Yadav family.
The case has to be understood "in the context of socio-cultural framework wherein some sections of the society repress socialization of girl right from their birth, ensures that they are kept unaware of their rights and are made to play subordinate to their brothers," the court said.
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"It is not digested by the elder men of the family, particularly by the brothers, that a female exercises her right to chose a male partner of her choice which often leads to shocking and macabre consequences, as in the present case," the judge observed.
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