Mother of 'honor killing' victim against ban on khap Movie

CHANDIGARH,HARYANA: Due to the opposition of  khap panchayats the movie 'Khap – a story of honour killing', which was not released in Haryana's khapland, 55-year-old lady Chanderpati, whose son Manoj was a victim of honour killing after being killed in 2007 for having dared to marry a girl from the same gotra, was all for watching it. The Manoj-Babli honour killing case was the honour killing of Indian newly-weds Manoj Banwala and Babli in June 2007 and the successive court case which historically convicted defendants for an honor killing.

Chanderpati, mother of Victim Manoj told that How could anybody guess what is in the movie without even watching it,” Otherwise too, reality cannot be suppressed, she said, adding that any society can usher in change only after accepting the reality. However, Chanderpati and others from Karoran Village in Kaithal District, Haryana are very  disappointment after all cinema hall owner in Haryana dropped the idea of screening of Khap Film amid the Warning issued by Khap Panchayats.

Youth abducted and murdered - Honor Killing in Rambainagar,Uttar Pradesh

KANPUR, UTTAR PRADSESH: A youth Mahendra Kureel was allegedly abducted and murdered by the brothers of his lover for the sake of "honor" in Shivli area of Rambainagar district. 
According to the police, the badly mangled body of Mahendra Kureel, a resident of Niralanagar ward in Shivli, who was missing since late Sunday night, recovered from a well on Shivli-Rasoolabad road on Wednesday. 
According to a senior police official, the accused as per the FIR lodged by Murdered youth wife Uma have been identified as Rajkumar and Sanjay, who managed to flee after the incident and several police teams are working to detain him. 
SP, Ramabainagar, Mr. Subhash Dubey told that it’s a case of an honor killing and a hunt is on for the culprits involved in the incident.
According to another police official close to investigation, the murderers had tied the hands and legs of Mahendra before strangulating him to death. 
"Rajkumar and Sanjay had developed enmity with their neighbor Mahendra kureel as he had run off with their sister Uma about a year ago and later married her in Court. However, about ten days ago Mahendra along with Uma returned his Shivli home and started staying there. 
It seems Rajkumar and Sanjay's pride was hurt and they decided of wiping out Mahendra Kureel. 
Police said, "Some unidentified men had ambuscaded Mahendra on Sunday July 31 night and forcibly abducted him at gun-point." 
Police investigation has also revealed that Rajkumar and Sanjay often threatened Mahendra with fearful consequences. 
"During Investigation many people in the village told us that Uma's brother’s pride was hurt when she ran off with Mahendra and they often talked of revenging it. The accused had in fact threatened Mahendra and his family members several times before," said the official. 
The body of Victim Mahendra Kureel has been sent for the postmortem to mortuary, the official told.

An Indian Origin Women Killed by Husband in Canada

Vancouver,Canada: July 28,2011 An Indian origin woman working at a Punjabi-English newspaper Sach the Awaaz in Surrey on the outskirts of Vancouver was stabbed to death allegedly by her husband Thursday.

Twenty-four-old Ravinder Bhangu, who had married her alleged assailant in 2009, worked at the weekly English/Punjabi Sach Di Awaaz, where she was attacked.

The police, who arrested the 26-year-old assailant, said the attack was related to marital problems between the couple.” The accused and the victim had been married since 2009,” police said.” Investigators are conducting interviews with witnesses and will be investigating the areas to speak with any additional witnesses.”

The victim came to Canada three years ago. Friends of the victim were quoted as saying that she had moved in with her aunt two or three months ago because of marital problems. Surrey is home to the largest concentration of the Indian community in Canada.

On Friday’s cover of the English/Punjabi Sach Di Awaaz was a somber statement on the 24-year-old’s death.
“It is with utmost sadness we regret to report the following,” the statement started. “One of our colleagues was attacked and fatally injured on July 28, 2011.”
Ravindra Bhangu, a Surrey resident, died Thursday morning after her husband allegedly attacked her at work, stabbing her repeatedly. The 26-year-old husband, Manmeet Singh, appeared briefly before Judge Jim Jardine in court this morning dressed in a white hooded jumpsuit. Singh, known to friends as Sunny, is charged with first-degree murder in the savage attack on his 24-year-old wife Bhangu, as well as aggravated assault and assault with a weapon.
The lesser charges are related to injuries suffered by a man who tried to save Bhangu, Crown prosecutor John Labossiere explained.” I can’t really comment much more at this time because the matter is before the court,” he said.
Ravindra Bhangu and Manmeet Singh were married in 2009.
On Friday afternoon, publisher Mickey Gill said he is in disbelief over Bhangu’s death.
He said she was “extremely well liked,” and was hired for her fluency in writing and speaking both English and Punjabi. She worked at the paper three days a week, typing, translating and fielding calls. Gill said after the employees gave their statements to police on Thursday, all felt compelled to finish the week’s edition in her honor.
According to a leading Hindi newspaper  this case can be put under the category of Honor Killing.

Honor Killing: Pakistani Man kills his “Six Daughters” for Honor

Islamabad: In a shocking incident, a Pakistani man, Arif Mubashir, has gunned down his six daughters on suspicion that two of them were in relationships with boys in the neighborhood.

On Tuesday morning, Arif Mubashir called his teenage daughters to his room and shot them while the rest of the family, including their mother, watched. His wife Musarrat called the police after the incident.

Mubashir shot the girls after their brother said two of them were in a relationship with neighborhood. He told police officials that he had killed his daughters because they were both “without honor”. The man said his daughters Sameena, 14, and Razia, 16, were in a relationship with college boys from the neighborhood and the sisters had helped each other.

"I should have been immediately told, but the girls sided with each other. They were both corrupt" Mubashir told Tandlianwala Police Inspector Javed Sial.

Police officials have taken Mubashir into custody and filed a case against him. “He does not regret what he did. He boasted that he would do it all over again if he had to” Sial told reporters.”

Pakistan has repeatedly been termed as one of the least women-friendly country.