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Teen thrown under train for writing love letter
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Nov 20, 2008 04:17pm |
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| Category | General |
| News Date | Thursday, November 20, 2008 03:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A teenage Indian boy was thrashed, paraded through the streets with his head shaved and then thrown under a train for daring to write a love letter to a girl from a different caste, police said Thursday.
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 honor." |
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