Family kills daughter, gets life sentence afer 2-yrs

HONOUR KILLING: Mehnaz was in love with a Hindu boy Vidyanand Jadhav.

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Mumbai: A Mumbai sessions court on Friday sentenced Mehnaz Bano's parents to life imprisonment after holding them guilty of killing the girl and destroying evidence.

Mehnaz, a resident of Nagpada, was killed by her parents and minor sister on July 2, 2006, for being in love with a Hindu boy. The 18-year-old Mehnaz's parents confessed to having strangled her.

However, after over two-years, a sessions court in Mumbai pronounced them guilty and 14-year-old daughter, who was accused of abetting the crime, is in a juvenile home.

“Under section 302, he has got a life imprisonment and for section 201, for destroying evidence, he has got seven years,” says Public Prosecutor, Ramnath Keni.

But shockingly the defence justifies Mehnaz's murder claiming it was in the best interest of the family.

“One reason to kill their daughter could be that they have three other younger daughters who they thought should not follow the same path in future,” says Abdul Wahab.

Eldest daughter of a middle class Muslim family, Mehnaz was in love with a Hindu boy Vidyanand Jadhav.

On July 1 2006, Mehnaz eloped with Vidyanand and married him in Panvel. On July 2, Mehnaz's family traced her and convinced her to return home. However, when she returned, a huge argument ensued between Mehnaz and her parents that ended in her death.

Munna, Shehnaz and their younger daughter later chopped off Mehnaz's body into eleven pieces and then stuffed her remains into two sacks and left them under Byculla flyover.

The Nagpada police tracked her father Mohammed Munna Khan through the identification of his employer's company logo on the sacks.

It can only be hoped that the judgment brings peace to the soul of the 18-year-old who paid the ultimate price for following her heart.