Source: Reuters
With the recent ruling in California concerning gay marriage and the droves of people who are lining up on both sides of the issue seems a wee bit trivial once you hear this story about a pregnant heterosexual couple who were murdered by their own family because they were from the same village which is considered “incest” though they have no blood relation. [The pics are pretty graphic but tell the story of this tragedy.]
They punched and kicked her stomach as she called out for her sleeping boyfriend “Jassa”, 22-year-old Jasbir Singh, witnesses said. When he woke, both were dragged into waiting cars, driven away and strangled.
Their bodies, half-stripped, were laid out on the dirt outside Sunita’s father’s house for all to see, a sign that the family’s “honor” had been restored by her cold-blooded murder.
“From society’s point of view, this is a very good thing,” said 62-year-old farmer Balwan Arya, sitting smoking a hookah in the shade of a tree in a square with other elders from the village council or panchayat. “We have removed the blot.”
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