Is Love an offence? Shame on society
Death penalty in India 'honour killings' case Indian community torn apart by 'honour killings' By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi Satvati shows the house where the killings took place Umesh Kumar and his wife Satvati Devi were woken in the middle of the night by loud cries coming from the neighbouring house. "She was crying loudly. She was pleading, 'Kill me, but please don't hurt him.' She loved him and they wanted to get married," Ms Devi tells me. Two days after teenage lovers Asha and Yogesh were brutally killed, Swaroop Nagar colony on the north-western outskirts of the Indian capital, Delhi, is still trying to come to terms with the tragedy. Asha's family was opposed to a marriage because Yogesh belonged to a different, lower caste. Police have described...