Three arrested in Delhi honour killing case

Agencies

Ghaziabad, 24 June 2010: The three suspects in the Delhi honour killing case in which a couple and a woman were murdered on Sunday in the Ashok Vihar area of the national capital were arrested by a team of Uttar Pradesh Police in Ghaziabad on Thursday.

The three accused - Ankit Chaudary, Mandeep Nagar and Nakul Khari - were on the run since the triple murders were committed on Sunday. The trio will be handed over to the Delhi Police for investigation.

 

 

"The arrested persons are Ankit Chaudary, Mandeep Nagar and Nakul Khari. They were arrested from Ghaziabad this afternoon. We have confiscated a car from them. They are being interrogated right now and have confessed to their crime," said Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Uttar Pradesh, Brij Lal.

They have been arrested for the murder of their sisters Monica and Shobha and brother-in-law Kuldeep. The three were killed for allegedly for bringing dishonour to their families by marrying outside their community. According to the police, Shobha was murdered first followed by Kuldeep and then Monica.

Police are trying to recover the pistol used to commit the gruesome crime.

Police have also taken Mandeep’s uncle and a cousin into preventive custody. The two had on Wednesday justified the killings in their family.

However, one of the accused Ankit claimed that they were innocent.

"We have not done anything? We are being framed. Don’t know why?" said Ankit.

Monica, a Gurjar, had married Kuldeep, who was a Rajput, and their families did not approve of the alliance. Both of them belonged to Wazipur village of Delhi. Shobha on the other hand was in involved in a relationship with a boy belong to another caste and had reportedly helped her sister elope with a man belonging to another caste.

Delhi Police had on Wednesday released the pictures of the accused and announced cash rewards of Rs 50,000 each for clues to the whereabouts of the three accused.