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Parents axe teen girl for ‘honour’

Girls was having an affair and was pregnant

Aurangabad: In an honour-killing incident, a 16-year-old girl was axed to death by her parents because she was having an affair. The parents of have been arrested. The incident occurred at the family farm at Mudgal village in Parbhani district on Saturday between 2 and 3 pm.

The girl’s mother Anjana had lodged a complaint of robbery with the Pathri police station stating that they were asleep under a tree at their farm when some unidentified men came there, gave her sedative, took her jewellery away and killed their daughter.

However, the police smelled a rat in the story and grilled Anjana and Laxman repeatedly, during which they spilled the beans. Confessing the crime, the couple said that Kaushalya’s pregnancy had brought shame to the family. She was repeatedly asked whom she was having an affair with but the girl refused to divulge anything. This upset the parents and they killed her with an axe.

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