Convicted rapist kills aunt, another widowROHTAK-Brutal patriarchy& a misplaced sense of honour lead 2beating up2 death over suspicions ofpromiscuity

ROHTAK: Brutal patriarchy and a misplaced sense of honour claimed two lives in Haryana`s Bhiwani district when a young man violently beat up two women, both widows, to death in full public view over suspicions of promiscuity. In an area where khap panchayats draw moral boundaries and female foeticide is common, Sunday night`s killings marked a new low in gender violence as Naresh Kumar, a 23-year-old with a criminal past, confronted 34-year-old Suman, a neighbour in Ranila village, over allegations she was having an affair with his aunt. According to witnesses, when Suman, the mother of an 8-year-old girl, told Kumar to back off and not interfere, the young man flew into a rage, dragged her out of her house and started battering the woman with a stick. The slanging match that preceded the violence, that happened around 8pm, had attracted a motley crowd of residents from the village of about 7,000 people, but none lifted a finger to stop the man, witnesses said. Although most villagers in the prosperous belt of Haryana carry one or even two cellphones, nobody called the cops either. As Suman fell dead, Kumar, who is serving a jail term for rape and is out on parole, rushed to the house of his 35-year-old aunt Shakuntala, dragged her out and started beating her mercilessly. It wasn`t known if Shakuntala`s 15-year-old son was a witness to his mother`s killing. On hearing her screams, people from nearby houses rushed out but once again nobody tried to stop the murder and allowed Naresh Kumar to thrash his aunt until she too fell dead. According to the police, Naresh Kumar went to the police after the murders and surrendered, saying he had killed the two women to save his family`s honour. Station house officer of Bond police station, Japan Singh, said that the accused had been arrested.

Convicted rapist kills aunt, another widow

over suspicions of promiscuity. (THIS IS HOW OUR SOCIETY THINKS.....ABOUT WOMEN????.....IF ALL IS NOT LIKE THEM,BUT MANY ARE!!!....HUMAN LIFE DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING TO THEM!! ITS REALLY SHAME!!.....BUT CM MR HUDDA'S COMMENT YESTERDAY SHOWN ON TV IS MORE SHAMEFUL!!!....VIBHA TAILANG)