Shocking Case Of Honour Killing: Man Kills Son For Marrying Girl Of Different Caste

In a shocking incident from the Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu, a man attacked his son, daughter-in-law and mother because he was upset with his son marrying a different caste. The police have registered the case of honour killing and the investigation is underway.

The boy reportedly married a girl belonging to the SC/ST community against the will of his family. They got married somewhere at the end of March this year following which the groom's grandmother invited them over to his house in the Krishnagiri. On April 14, when everyone was sleeping during the night, the groom's father, who was clearly upset with his son's marriage, attacked his own mother, his son, and the daughter-in-law.

While the mother was rushed to the hospital after suffering serious injuries, the son and daughter-in-law, unfortunately, died on the spot. The case throws light on how grave the caste issue is in India despite years of modernisation.

Man Kills Son For Marrying SC Woman

We often see parents being upset when their children marry against their will. Love marriages are still looked down upon in society and families find it difficult to accept their children's choices. The ones who rebel against the family face death threats from them and either separate or lose their lives. There have been many cases where couples approached court and police for protection against their own family just because they wanted to marry the person of their choice. The root of most of these cases is caste. There is still a significant portion of society that believes in the caste system and frowns upon inter-caste marriage.

The upper caste people think it is an attack on their honour to marry the lower caste. They don't care about the calibre, education or feelings of their own children and are more concerned about their social status. They treat people from low castes differently and think they get away with anything just because they assume an upper caste status. They either try to separate inter-caste couples or threaten to kill them. When they cannot stop the inter-caste or lower-caste marriage, they continue to humiliate their in-laws to maintain their fake honour.

It's unfortunate that in a developing country where we're pursuing advanced technology and space missions, most people of the upper still hold a medieval-aged thought process and consider people from a lower caste less compared to themselves, and then the question arises, who decides which caste deserves respect and which doesn't? Isn't the whole point of abolishing the caste system that we treat everyone equally? People from the upper caste still think that the people of the lower caste are meant to serve them and don't deserve equal opportunities as them. They are not happy with getting support from the administration or any support that might lift them to a position equal to theirs.

As long as such misleading notions and primitive mindsets exist, we can never become a progressed society. A progressing society is one where opportunities are given based on calibre and people don't believe in shallow and oppressive ideas. Such cases remind us that there is still a lot of improvement to be made in the ideologies of people.

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