Hoshiarpur (Punjab): A 20-year-old youth allegedly strangulated her teenaged sister and threw her body in a canal in a suspected case of honour killing in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab.
During sustained interrogation, Mani Pratap Kaushal confessed he had strangulated his sister Kanchan with an electric wire as he doubted her character, SSP Rakesh Aggarwal told mediapersons in Hoshiarpur today.
Mani, a resident of village Kitna, told police he had killed his sister, aged 16, for having an affair which had incensed the family, Aggarwal said.
After strangulating her, the youth said he wrapped her body in a bedsheet and threw it in a canal, the SSP said.
Earlier, Surinder Singh, the father of the girl, had filed a report with Mahilpur police station that his daughter was missing since June 29.
After serving dinner to the family, she had left the house without informing anyone, the father said in the complaint, according to the SSP.
A few days later, a body was fished out from a canal in Kapurthala district and police called Surinder Singh’s family to identify the body.
Mani went to the Rawalpindi police station but failed to identify the body.
However, during investigations Mani emerged as the main suspect and was arrested, the SSP said.
During interrogation, Mani revealed he had laced the dinner with intoxicants and went outside the house.
After consuming the dinner, the family members became unconscious and at around 1am, he strangulated Kanchan with an electric wire, he told his interrogators.
Later, he wrapped her body in a bedsheet and threw it in a canal near the village, the SSP said.
After Mani’s confession, police registered a case under various sections of the IPC including 302 (murder) against him, the police officer said.
India: A Demonstrator Calls for a Comprehensive Law against "Honor Killings" (Photo: Sify News)
SAPA reports on a 16 year old Jordanian girl murdered by uncle after sexual assault in “honor killing,” with 30 machine gun rounds:
— SAPA: “Jordanian shoots dead sex victim niece as ’honour killing'”
— “A Jordanian man confessed to killing his 16-year-old niece to save his family’s ‘honour’ after she was sexually assaulted, a judicial official said today.”
— “The 43-year-old fired 30 machine-gun rounds in the direction of the girl yesterday, killing her instantly, at Deir Alla, west of the capital Amman, said the official who requested anonymity.”
— “The man confessed to the murder, saying he did it to ‘cleanse the family honour’ over suspicions of ‘bad behaviour’ after the girl ‘lost her virginity a month ago in a sexual assault by a young man aged 17,’ said the same source.”
— “The girl’s family later married her off to a cousin ‘to conceal the facts,’ the official added, stressing that the suspect in the sexual assault was being tried.”
— “Prosecutors have charged the uncle with ‘premeditated murder.’ Murder is punishable by death in Jordan but in so-called ‘honour killings’ courts can commute or reduce sentences, particularly if the victim’s family asks for leniency.
— “Between 15 and 20 women are murdered in honour killings each year in the kingdom, despite government efforts to curb such crimes.”
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) rejects those who promote hate and violence, and urges them to release the burden of hate from their hearts. R.E.A.L. believes there is no “honor” in honor killings, and rejects the cultural or religious rationale that murderers use to justify their crimes, and their ideological hate crime war against women.
United in Hate: Ku Klux Klan's Randy Gray (image 1), National Socialist Movement's Jeff Schoep (image 2), and Christian Identity's James Wickstrom (image 3) (Photo 1 Midland Daily News, Photos 2 and 3 SPLC)
Jeff Schoep has led the Nazi, Hitlerite National Socialist Movement (NSM) for years. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) quotes Jeff Schoep as stating: “”The Constitution was written by white men alone. Therefore, it was intended for whites alone… When you put on your NSM uniform, you are not just representing the NSM but all National Socialists that fought and died for our Race and our Cause! You are showing the Jews and the rest of the world that our Fuhrer is not forgotten and that his life’s struggle was not in vain… All non-White immigration must be prevented. We demand that all non-Whites currently residing in America be required to leave the nation forthwith and return to their land of origin: peacefully or by force. ”
The SPLC states that “James Wickstrom may be America’s hardest-line preacher of the racist and anti-Semitic theology of Christian Identity. Known for violent, raging sermons that call for extermination of “the Jews,” Wickstrom, who has an extensive criminal history, has been preaching his hatred since his involvement in the 1970s with the anti-Semitic and antigovernment Posse Comitatus.”
The SPLC quotes James Wickstrom as stating: “I’d like to see these Jews all be brought to the VA [Veterans Administration hospital] and wooden chairs be put down on the lawn. Tie the Jews in. Bring these veterans down who have been mutilated … and give them baseball bats and let them beat these Jews to death! Every one of them! Take these chairs and Jews after they’re beaten to death, throw ’em in the wood chipper! And from the wood chipper let the remains go into a big incinerary [sic] truck, which is right behind the wood chipper, and give them the holocaust they rightly deserve!”
The SPLC quotes James Wickstrom as stating: “I have a dream! If that goddamn n**ger can have a dream, I can have a dream, too. I have a dream that in the days to come there won’t be anyone who isn’t white that’s gonna be in America!”
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The Midland Messenger report on the planned July 31 white supremacist / Nazi event that “A post on Stormfront, a website for neo-Nazis and white supremacists, announces a July 31 rally on the steps of the Midland County Courthouse. Scheduled to speak is Randy Gray, who was elected as a GOP precinct delegate in 2008. He was stripped of that position after he showed up the day after the election on the streets of Midland in his KKK robes protesting the election of Barack Obama. Also scheduled to speak is James Wickstrom, a longtime member of the Christian Identity movement. Wickstrom claims that only white people were created in the image of God and only white people have souls. He also claims that Jews are the ‘children of Satan’ and that white, Western Europeans are the true Israelites favored by God. Wickstrom lives in Rhodes, Michigan. A third speaker is Jeff Schoep, ‘commander’ of the National Socialist Movement which has its headquarters in Detroit. His organization wants a United States made up only of those with ‘pure White blood’ — and no Jews or homosexuals allowed. And although Schoep claims that his group is non-violent, their party platform demands that ‘all non-Whites currently residing in America be required to leave the nation forthwith and return to their land of origin: peacefully or by force.'”
