PATNA, India – A teenage Indian boy was
thrashed, paraded through the streets
with his head shaved and then thrown
under a train and killed for writing a love
letter to a girl from a different caste,
Indian police said on Thursday.
Fifteen-year-old Manish Kumar was
kidnapped by members of the rival caste
on his way to school, had his head shaved
and was thrown under a train as his
mother begged for mercy, police in the
impoverished eastern state of Bihar said.
One man has so far been arrested and a
policeman suspended.
The victim’s mother Lalit Devi told police
she had watched “helplessly” as the
wheels of the train passed over her son.
“The accused persons killed the boy for
writing a love letter to the girl of the same
village,” superintendent of police in
Kaimur district, Rajesh Kumar, told
Reuters by telephone.
Police said the girl belonged to a
washerman community, considered a
lower caste, whereas the boy came from
the slightly higher dairymen Yadav
community.
Love across caste lines is often violently
opposed, especially in rural northern
India, and it is not uncommon for
outraged families to kill to “save the family
honour.”
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