ROHTAK: In an apparent case of honour killing, an engineering student was allegedly lynched by family members of a girl when the two were spotted together in the village community centre, in chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's Sanghi village, on Wednesday night.
Deepak Sharma (21), resident of Dimana village in Jhajjar district, had come to meet his girlfriend around midnight. Sources said that a family member saw the girl going out of the house and followed her. He then informed others, who found the couple cozying up and took strong exception to it.
While the girl was sent back home, Deepak was battered to death. Police have arrested the girl's mother Munni Devi on the complaint of victim's father Ramphal Singh. Four other accused - brothers Pradeep and Rajesh, uncle Wazir Singh and neighbour Hawa Singh - are on the run.
A police spokesperson said that three teams have been constituted to nab the culprits. He admitted that preliminary inquiry indicated that the victim, who was a third year engineering student in a private college in Ladrawan village of Jhajjar district, had an affair with the girl, a school student, and had come to meet her.
Sources said the girl's family was enraged about the couple's rendezvous. "They seemed to have thrashed the youth in a fit of rage which led to his death and then fled, leaving the body at the community centre. The motorcycle, on which the youth had come to the village, was recovered from outside the centre," police said.
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