Chennai: The husband of a young girl who was murdered by her parents and relatives in alleged honour killing, has knocked on the doors of the Madras high court for justice.
Justice V. Ramasubramanian, before whom the writ petition filed by B. Dilipkumar seeking a CBI probe into the case, came up for hearing, the judge restrained the Usilampatti police from proceeding with the investigation in the alleged honour killing of the girl who married outside her caste.
The judge also ordered notice and directed the state government and DGP to file counter before October 20.
The petitioner submitted that he belonged to Scheduled Caste and resided at Pulipatti, Usilampatti taluk, Madurai district. He said he worked as a driver of Veeran, father of Vimala Devi, who belonged to a Backward Community, for a few years.
For the past two years, he was having a love affair with Vimala. He said as her parents decided to arrange her marriage to someone else, “we decided to leave the village and get married. And, we got married in a temple in Vridachalam on July 22, 2014”.
“Her parents opposed our wedding since it was an inter-caste marriage”, he said. Apprehending threat from her parents and relatives, they went to Palakkad, Kerala, and surrendered in the Pattambi police station.
The girl’s parents rushed to Pattambi police station and gave an assurance that they would bring back them once the inquiry was completed in the Usilampatti police station. However, after bringing them to Usilampatti, her parents and 200 others, with the help of the local police, took the girl back against her wish.
Vimala died under suspicious circumstances and her parents and relatives hurriedly cremated her by pouring petrol over the body.
He alleged that a women sub-inspector, who took custody of the girl from the government home illegally, handed her over to the family despite her refusal to go with her parents. Hence, he sought for a direction from the court to hand over the Investigation to CBI and take departmental action against the police who caused the death of his wife.
