17-year-old UP Girl Killed for Wearing Jeans
A 17 year old girl from Uttar Pradesh was brutally thrashed and killed by her family just because she insisted on wearing jeans.
The 17-year-old girl Neha Paswan from Savreji Kharg village in Deoria district in Uttar Pradesh was severely thrashed by her family members after she insisted on wearing jeans and a top on 19 July 2021.
Her mother Shakuntala Devi Paswan said, “She had kept a day-long religious fast. In the evening, she put on a pair of jeans and a top and performed her rituals. When her grandparents objected to her attire, Neha retorted that jeans were made to be worn and that she would wear it. She had been severely beaten with sticks by her grandfather and uncles because she started arguing with them. Shakuntala Devi said as her daughter lay unconscious, her in-laws called an autorickshaw and said they were taking her to hospital.
She said, “They wouldn’t let me accompany them so I alerted my relatives who went to the district hospital looking for her but couldn’t find her.” The next morning, Shakuntala Devi said, she heard that the body of a girl was hanging from the bridge over the Gandak river. When she and her relatives went to investigate, they discovered it was Neha’s body. Police have lodged a case of murder and destruction of evidence against 10 people, including Neha’s grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and the auto driver. The grandparents, an uncle and the auto driver, had been arrested and were being questioned. Police said the rest have run away and the police are looking for them.
