Wedding row leads to beheadings in India

[Uzybone]

Source: CNN.com

Eight people were killed and their mutilated bodies thrown into a river over a wedding not approved by the couple's families in eastern India, police said Wednesday.


Police found eight bodies, four of them beheaded and others mutilated, in a river Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/11/india.wedding.beheading/index.html?iref=newssearch

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Pure savagery.

[nyy1998]

1. Absolutly embarrassed

It's from my home province of Bihar, but this is a region famous for being backwards. Plenty of uneducated and very religious population there. So stuff like this happen all the time in Bihar. It sad to see from a region that used to be the capital of one of the greatest empires in the Gupta Empire and produced some of the greatest intellectuals in history.

[adadem]

7. So sorry n/t

[Coventina]

2. Eight family members beheaded in Bihar revenge killing

Source: Reuters

PATNA, India (Reuters) - Eight members of a man's poverty-ridden family were shot and beheaded before their bodies were thrown into a river in Bihar after he secretly married a wealthy girl, police said on Wednesday.

Police in the state found the eight bodies floating in a river and have charged 15 people, mostly from the girl's family, with the murders.

The weekend killing took place after 21-year-old Ratan Mandal eloped with 18-year-old Kanchan Kumari and got married secretly, afraid their families would never approve due to an old social rivalry.

"The girl's family invited the boy's family for a meeting on the pretext of settling the dispute, but killed all eight and beheaded them," said Raghunath Prasad Singh, a senior police officer from Bhagalpur, where the incident took place.



Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-37956820090211

[TwilightGardener]

3. The in-laws...not so nice, actually.

[slackmaster]

4. Caste of Peace???

In most cultures, a man would receive nothing but praise from his family for marrying a wealthy woman.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. It was the girl's rich family that did the murders

It was the poor man's family that were the victims.

[slackmaster]

6. D'Oh!

Coffee will fix this problem.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

8. I usually can think of a snarky comment to most any LBN headline...

Not so in this case. Unspeakably horrific.

[slackmaster]

9. Mine was "Caste of Peace???" on another thread

:shrug:

[Javaman]

10. "this is not the wedding cake we ordered!!!!! this is a personal outrage!!!

we wanted carrot caaaaaaaake!!!!! Kill them!!! kill them all!!!!"

after video taping well over 100 weddings, this really isn't all that far from the truth.

[scytherius]

11. Is the only place where the world is not fundamentally insane, Greenland? n/t

nt

[Johnyawl]

12. What makes you so sure Greenland is fundamentally sane?

[cosmicone]

14. Antarctica !!! n/t

[earcandle]

13. So, will the family be prosecuted for these murders?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

18. the law and order system in bihar is a joke. i doubt anything will happen

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. bihar is the indian equivalent of florida.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

20. Formerly run by Jagdish Bush.

Brother of Gopal W. Bush.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

21. LOL. yeah.

[bird gerhl]

16. the caste system isn't something that can just be legislated out of existence.

it seems you can only terrorize it out of the people who benefit from the current state of affairs. this, the persistence of caste prejudices, is one of the greatest historic failures of the indian ruling caste class. they had ~60 years, and what do they have to show for it?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

17. this isnt a caste issue. its a socioeconomic class issue.

both of these families appear to be lower caste.

also this area is particularly violent and hasnt had law/order or any economic progress in years.

india has plenty to show for moving past castes. while the caste system still persists it is nowhere the level it was years ago.

[PfcHammer]

19. Thought this was in east Texas before I saw the title

:rofl: