In the latest case of honor killing in Lahore, Pakistan, two sisters were murdered by their father and brother after getting married for love in the country's Punjab province. Police gave this information on Wednesday.
The incident took place on Tuesday in Vehari, about 350 km from Lahore.
According to police, the victims – Nishat and Afshan, aged around 20 – left their home last month and entered into court marriages with men of their choice.
The panchayat meeting held on the request of the sisters' father ordered the groom's families to hand over the married girls to their parents.
"As soon as the groom's families complied with the panchayat's order, both the girls were handed over to their parents," police said. On Tuesday, the girls' father Saeed and brother Asim, along with others, tried to torture the girls. Later he was shot dead at his house." Said.
Police said they have arrested the father of the murdered girls.
A case has been registered against the criminals under various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code.
According to data provided by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, around 1,000 women are killed in the name of honor every year in the country.
A young girl or married woman is punished by death if she runs away from home with someone she knows, marries without family consent or has illicit relations with someone.
But when cases are filed in the courts against the killer brothers, sons, parents or other close relatives of these women, usually their close relatives and the plaintiffs forgive them and thus they escape punishment.
The incident took place on Tuesday in Vehari, about 350 km from Lahore.
According to police, the victims – Nishat and Afshan, aged around 20 – left their home last month and entered into court marriages with men of their choice.
The panchayat meeting held on the request of the sisters' father ordered the groom's families to hand over the married girls to their parents.
"As soon as the groom's families complied with the panchayat's order, both the girls were handed over to their parents," police said. On Tuesday, the girls' father Saeed and brother Asim, along with others, tried to torture the girls. Later he was shot dead at his house." Said.
Police said they have arrested the father of the murdered girls.
A case has been registered against the criminals under various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code.
According to data provided by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, around 1,000 women are killed in the name of honor every year in the country.
A young girl or married woman is punished by death if she runs away from home with someone she knows, marries without family consent or has illicit relations with someone.
But when cases are filed in the courts against the killer brothers, sons, parents or other close relatives of these women, usually their close relatives and the plaintiffs forgive them and thus they escape punishment.
