New Delhi: A day after a 21-year-old boy was killed in Haryana for marrying a girl of the same gotra in Haryana's Jind district, Narwana's SHO has been suspended for failing to protect the life of the boy despite court orders.
The boy, Ved Pal, was killed on Thursday by angry villagers who opposed his love marriage claiming that the couple were like brother and sister because they belonged to the same gotra. A few months after marriage, the girl's parents had called her home and didn't allow her to return to her husband. Ved Pal then moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking his wife's return.
A production officer was sent by the court but the villagers beat him up before driving him out of the village and subsequently, allegedly killed the boy.
Meanwhile, the family of Ved Pal, 21, blamed "police inaction" for his death and said the youth had taken a court order for the custody of his wife of four months Sonia. They said he was accompanied by a Warrant Officer of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and 15 Haryana policemen when he was attacked by residents of Singhwal village, about 165 kms from Chandigarh, on Thursday night.
Denying allegations that Pal was left to the mercy of the mob by the policemen, Jind police chief Satheesh Balan said a crowd of nearly 400 people attacked the police party and Warrant Officer Suraj Bhan who were in different vehicles.
The crowd dragged Bhan out of the vehicle even as Pal panicked and tried to escape under the cover of darkness, but was surrounded and lynched by the villagers who were against his marriage, the officer said.
A case under Section 302 (murder) and other offences under IPC have been registered against the girl's parents and unidentified villagers, Balan said.
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