Girl’s parents tie boy to tree, beat him to death in MP village | India News
INDORE: The parents of a girl tied a 17-year-old boy to a tree, tonsured his head, and then beat him to death after catching him meeting the girl at a temple near her house in a village in the Namli area of Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam district late on Friday.Ratlam ASP Rakesh Khaka said four people in Mevasa village, including the girl’s father, have been booked for murder and detained for interrogation. “The deceased is said to have come in contact with the girl through a social networking site. The girl had called the boy to meet at a temple near her house around 11pm, when he was caught by her family members,” said the ASP.Police received information about the death around 2.30am. SDOP Kishore Patanwala rushed to the spot and sent the body to Ratlam Medical College, which found fractures and fatal internal injuries to the boy’s organs.The father of the deceased boy said he had no idea when his son left the house to meet the girl. He alleged that the girl’s father and nearly 8 to 10 others tied him to a tree and fatally assaulted him. “They could have just informed me if they were angry. Why kill him?” he said.Ramesh Malviya, deputy sarpanch of Kandrawasa village, to which the deceased belonged, said he accompanied the boy’s father to nearby Mevasa village. There, they found the boy’s body wrapped in plastic outside a house.Angry villagers placed the minor’s body on the highway and blocked road on Saturday morning, demanding the accused be paraded publicly and that the victim’s family be given financial aid of Rs 1 crore.
