It was not a caste-based crime as police said both the deceased and the youth belonged to the same caste. According to Superintendent of Police (city) Satyanarain Prajapat, Dharampal was opposed to Priyansi's relationship with a youth from their village. Uttar Pradesh Honour Killing: Man Slits Her Daughter’s Throat for Being in Relationship With Youth in Muzaffarnagar; Arrested.
A teenage girl in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad was allegedly killed by her father and two brothers after she was suspected to be in a relationship with a boy from a different caste.
In a suspected case of honour killing, a man dragged his niece out of her house and slit her throat on Saturday for eloping and marrying a man of a different caste, police here said.
The father and the brother of a 17-year-old girl, whose body was exhumed for postmortem, have been arrested in a case of dishonour killing, police here said on Saturday.