Man kills daughter for refusing to marry boy of his choice

April 25, 2012 12:56 am | Updated 12:56 am IST - MUMBAI:

In a case of honour killing in the city, a man killed his teenage daughter after she refused to marry a boy he had chosen. The 19-year-old girl wanted to marry another boy she was in love with.

Police said Mohammad Kitabuddin Abdul Gafur Shah smashed Tabassum Khatun's head against the wall in a fit of rage. He has been arrested and booked for murder and tampering with the evidence.

“He disapproved of her relationship with the boy and had warned her several times,” sources at the Shivajinagar police station told The Hindu on Tuesday.

Mohammad Kitabuddin, hailing from Uttar Pradesh, is a hawker who stays with his family in the Shivajinagar slums.

“Early on Sunday [April 22], Mohammad Kitabuddin had an argument with his daughter. He had fixed her marriage with a boy and had even booked train tickets to their native place. But the girl refused to come with him,” a police official said.

The girl was reportedly in love with the son of a neighbour for the past four months. “Though both the families belong to the same religion, there were some issues in relation to their sects.,” the police official said.

The family initially tried to conceal the death, police said.

“On Sunday morning, they took her to the Rajawadi hospital and told the doctor that they could not wake her up. The family said the girl suffered from tuberculosis and might have died in her sleep because of it,” the police said.

“The doctors informed us and we ordered post-mortem. We got the report on Monday which stated that she died of a head injury, the police said.

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