Honour Killings in India That Exposed Extreme Barbarism

2. Nirupama Pathak’s case in Jharkhand:

Nirupama Pathak, a New Delhi–based journalist, was allegedly murdered by her own mother. Nirupama wanted to marry a fellow journalist who belonged to a lower caste and whose baby she was expecting. She visited her parents with the hope of convincing them, but was locked in a bathroom and later on she was found dead.The family claimed Nirupama had killed herself, and lodged a case against her boyfriend for rape and abetting suicide. But the postmortem results revealed Nirupama had been choked to dead; the police arrested her mother, Sudha Pathak. Nirupama's story had summed up that modern day youths who have moved from small towns to be a part of big-city life, can never escape from the caste rules still exercised with determined authority at their home.

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