NEW DELHI-(MaraviPost)-Police in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state have arrested a man who confessed to beheading his teenage daughter.
The spokesperson for Hardoi Police confirmed the arrest.
According to the police spokesperson, Sarvesh Kumar was arrested on Wednesday night walking toward a police station in Hardoi district carrying the severed head of his 17-year-old daughter.
Report by Al Jazeera revealed that prior to the gruesome killing, Kumar’s daughter was seeing a young that her father didn’t like which angered him.
When Kumar returned home, he found his daughter alone at home, locked her in a room, and severed her head using a knife.
He reportedly took her head and Start walking towards police station to confess what he had done before local passersby alerted the police, who stopped him and apprehended him.
He is currently in custody and a list of charges will be compiled against him once the investigations have been completed.
Police said he will also have access to a public lawyer once he has been formally charged, and he will remain in custody until the trial.
According to statistics from the country’s National Crime Records Bureau, India recorded 24 honour killings in 2019. Two years earlier, Uttar Pradesh registered 14 of the country’s 92 such killing.
Human rights groups say thousands of women and girls are killed across South Asia and the Middle East each year by family members angered at perceived damage to their “honour”.
Last month, a woman was burned alive by family members over an interfaith relationship in Uttar Pradesh.
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