UP man kills niece for inter-caste marriage

Police in Uttar Pradesh reported a suspected case of honour killing on Saturday, where a man allegedly dragged his niece out of her house and slit her throat. The incident is believed to have occurred as the woman had eloped and married a man from a different caste. The man surrendered at a police station in the afternoon with the murder weapon, a sickle, they said. The incident happened at Bajnagar village under the Pisawan Police Circle.
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Sitapur, NP Singh said the 20-year-old woman had an affair with Roop Chandra Maurya, who was from the village and married.
When Shyamu Singh, the woman’s uncle, came to know about their relationship, he sent her to Ghaziabad where her father Putan Singh Tomar worked, the officer said.