Youth hanged to death over love affair

In a suspected case of honour killing, a 17-year-old boy was allegedly hanged to death by the relatives of the girl he was having an affair with.
The boy was allegedly killed by girl's father and her uncles with the help of village Sarpanch at Shemsherpur Khurd village, police said today.
According to the complaint of the boy's father Malkiat Singh, his son, a labourer in the grain market, had been having a love affair with the 15-year-old girl of Shemsherpur Kurd village for the last two years.
On June 3, the girl had called him to her home, but he was seen by the girl's father who later with the help of relatives hanged the boy to death, police said.

To hush up the crime, the clprits called Malkiat and forced him to perform the last rites of his son on the same night and threatened him of dire consequences if he reported the crime to anyone, police said.
On the complaint of Malkiat Singh, police registered a case under various sections of the IPC against the father of the girl, Pawan Kumar, his brothers Satpal and Jaspal, Sarpanch of the village Amarjeet Singh, Panchayat members Ranjeet Kaur, Ram Singh and Kuldeep Singh, police said, adding that a hunt is on for the accused who are absconding.