Dad ‘shoots daughter, 17, dead and dumps body in river after marriage race row’

A dad is alleged to have shot his teen daughter, put her body in a tarpaulin bag, tied stones to it, and thrown it in the nearby river, before she was found two days later

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A father brutally took the life of his 17-year-old daughter because she wanted to marry someone ‘outside their caste’, police have claimed.

The man has been arrested for allegedly shooting his daughter, putting her body in a tarpaulin bag, tying stones to it and throwing it in the nearby river.

Police said they had received a tip off from a neighbour who informed that the teen had been missing since September 23, and that on that day he heard gunshots from the house followed by screams.

The girl had been missing for two days before her body was recovered on Sunday morning.

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When questioned, the man provided vague answers which immediately raised suspicions amongst the authorities, according to Times of India. Upon being taken into custody, he is said to have confessed to killing his daughter following a heated argument about an inter-caste relationship.

Investigators allege that the accused shot the girl in front of her younger sister, packed her body in a tarpaulin sack, tied it with a stone, and disposed of it in the river near his ancestral village Bhagwan Singh Ka Pura.

Once the body was retrieved, it was sent for a postmortem examination to determine the exact cause of death.

Preliminary investigations indicate that the girl wanted to marry a boy from another caste. “Despite persuasion, she insisted on marrying him. Enraged, her father shot her dead,” a senior police officer said.

It comes after a dad confessed to killing his own 15-year-old daughter after she refused to stop posting TikTok videos^[3].

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Anwar ul-Haq, who had recently moved his family back to Pakistan from the US, was charged with murder^[5] after admitting he shot dead^[6] his teenage daughter, Hira, in the south-western city of Quetta.

Despite initially telling police^[7] that unidentified men were behind the shooting, the dad later admitted to the killing after telling investigators he found his daughter’s online posts “objectionable.”

Ul-Haq, who has US citizenship, is reported to have forbidden his daughter from making TikTok videos he believed were “inappropriate” and the family “had an objection to her dressing, lifestyle and social gathering,’ according to police. Authorities confirmed they are investigating the motives behind the killing, including the possibility of an honour killing.