In a fit of rage, a man killed his 19-year-old daughter in Govandi on Sunday, for having slighted his ‘honour’ by involving herself in a romantic affair with a paying guest who hailed from a ‘lower caste’. Cops said that soon after the murder, the accused tried to mislead investigators by misinforming doctors and cops that the girl had succumbed to tuberculosis.

Where’s the honour? After her parents barred her from continuing her relationship with their paying guest, Khatun met the boy in the dead of the night, thinking that others were asleep. Catching the two together, the girl’s father flew into a rage and repeatedly banged her head against the wall, which caused her death. Illustration/Amit Bandre