Family kills pregnant daughter, her lover

New Delhi: A man strangled his pregnant daughter and her lover and put their bodies on display to an applauding village in Haryana on Friday.

Twenty-seven-year-old Jasdev Singh and his childhood sweetheart Sunita, who was six-months pregnant, belonged to Karnal village — an area dominated by the Jat community — which considers people from the same village as siblings.

Last year, Sunita eloped with Jasdev. However, when Sunita's family finally found them and got to know that she was pregnant, they beat up the couple and strangled them to death, police officials said.

After committing the murder, the family threw the bodies of the young couple outside their house to send a message to the applauding village audience that going against the wishes of the community and the family will not be tolerated.

Shortly after, Sunita’s brother went to the local police station and reported their crime.

Sunita's family remained unrepentant after committing the crime. Her mother Roshni Devi justified the action of her family, saying that the family had “saved its reputation”.

“We were there and so were the boy's parents. We had warned her before, but she didn't heed our words, so we finished her off,” she said.

I prefer my culture, but I do appreciate that there is one place in the world that has not utterly succomed to modernist politically correct situational ethics. You know these people are Hindu fundamentalists, and while it does offend my Western sensibilities to kill the unborn child and the two lovers, they are maintaining their ethical code. A code which is thousands of years old and has allowed their culture to flourish for most of that period.

Here NOTHING is forbidden. Nothing is even shameful. I went to read the synopsis of the Tia Tequila reality show. The plot line is basically she is a bi-sexual slut and uses little contests to pick who she is going to bestow her sexual favors on next. This is a cable show, apparently.

Look where we’ve come. I’m not quite 50. This was unimaginable to be ON TV when I was a kid. Can this possibly continue. What next, hardcore sex in commercials? A beastiality reality TV show?

No one stands up for any social norms in the USA. A wee bit more real outrage might not be a bad thing.

I’m certainly not going to tell Indian peasants how to respond to incest in their midst.

I see many people on FR suggesting a quick hanging for child molesters and rapists. Essentially these people have done what the blow-hards here always say shoudl be done: are they really now savages?

Found in the Wikipedia entry on Karnal:

It was at the Karnal Flying Club that Kalpana Chawla, a native of the city, first became interested in flying. Ms Chawla went on to complete her engineering degree at Punjab Engineering College and later become the first Indian origin woman to fly in space. She died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of 2003.

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