Indian man beheads daughter in rage over lifestyle

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Indian man beheads daughter in rage over lifestyle

JAIPUR, India – A father in northwestern India remained unrepentant Tuesday after beheading his daughter with a ceremonial sword in a rage over her relationships with men, police said.

The father surrendered at a police station, carrying the head in one hand and the bloodied sword in the other, police said.

Residents of Dungarji village expressed shock as they performed the last rites for the 20-year-old woman.

Police said the father, marble miner Oghad Singh, accused his daughter of bringing dishonor to the family and making it hard to find husbands for her two unmarried sisters.

Women wailing in grief lined the dusty road of the village in Rajasthan state as a procession carried Manju Kanwar's remains to her funeral pyre. As in many north and west Indian villages, the women, including her mother and four sisters, were not allowed to attend the funeral.

A coroner stitched Kanwar's head onto her body for the funeral. About 100 men, many of them relatives wearing ceremonial Rajput warrior clan turbans, surrounded her muslin-wrapped body, and her brother lit the funeral pyre.

Villagers condemned the father's actions as extreme. They said the father, his shirt soaked in blood, had carried his daughter's head through the village, describing what he'd done to neighbors.

"He told me that he took the sword out, and when the daughter was all alone in the house he beheaded her with a single stroke and the head fell on the ground," said Narayan Singh, a distant relative.

He said he persuaded Singh to surrender, and took him by motorcycle to a police station 5 kilometers (2 miles) away. Police charged Singh, 46, with murder.

"It was a ghastly sight," officer Ranjit Singh said, describing the father sitting in the station's waiting room holding the head in one hand and the sword in the other. "Oghad admitted immediately that he killed his daughter because she had earned a bad name for the family."

Police described Kanwar's recent life as difficult and unorthodox for the traditional community of about 1,000 just outside the Rajasthani tourist town of Udaipur.

She left her husband from an arranged marriage two years ago and moved back home to live with her parents. She recently began seeing several men which "disgusted" her father, deputy police superintendent Umesh Ojha said.

"Oghad said he was fed up with the lifestyle of his daughter," Ojha said.

When Manju eloped with one man two weeks ago, her father forced her to return on Sunday and killed her.

Rapidly modernizing India faces increasing social clashes as youths resist traditions like arranged marriage or limits on women venturing outside their parents' or husbands' homes.

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Edited June 20, 2012 by ☠

[james&olya 1,121]

HOLY SH!T!!

[MyLittlePony 340]

Spoiled Americans take note of this.

[Shoot Em Straight 385]

Police said the father, marble miner Oghad Singh, accused his daughter of bringing dishonor to the family and making it hard to find husbands for her two unmarried sisters.

It will be even harder now that the word is out of what kind of future father in law he will be

[rocks 494]

Police said the father, marble miner Oghad Singh, accused his daughter of bringing dishonor to the family and making it hard to find husbands for her two unmarried sisters.

It will be even harder now that the word is out of what kind of future father in law he will be

Clearly he wasn't thinking straight...

[rade2rising 205]

well some cultures are different. I have heard many stories like this before. Before scary, sad, shocking etc but this is how their society works.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

We've ALL heard stories like this before ... and this being "how their society works" does not make it any more acceptable or less shocking.

[rade2rising 205]

Well same thing in afghanistan and Iran etc etc stoning women and such things. Its a part of their lifestyle we can condemn it all we want but we have to accept this is their culture. not everything is done the American way.

[jaycali 415]

Well same thing in afghanistan and Iran etc etc stoning women and such things. Its a part of their lifestyle we can condemn it all we want but we have to accept this is their culture. not everything is done the American way.

There's a difference between not being the American way and stoning women. Certain parts of certain cultures are unacceptable no matter how you look at it.

[MyLittlePony 340]

What if this was done on American soil?

[james&olya 1,121]

What if this was done on American soil?

A lot of red soil!

Guilty but insane, life in prison/mental hospital.

[MyLittlePony 340]

A lot of red soil!

Guilty but insane, life in prison/mental hospital.

No kidding about the red soil the father looks like a nut job.

[rocks 494]

There's a difference between not being the American way and stoning women. Certain parts of certain cultures are unacceptable no matter how you look at it.

I agree. There is no justification for cutting off someone's head as part of their "different culture", no matter where you're from.

[PMartin37 161]

You know it's interesting... that I have heard about this many times before but I have YET to hear about a man being beheaded for bringing "dishonor" to the family. There's no excuse to deliberately abuse women in the name of "family honor"....that's BS I don't care where you live or who you are.