Delhi Couple Tortured To Death

Five members of a family were today awarded the death penalty by the Rohini court in the 2010 Swaroop Nagar killing case where a teenaged couple were beaten up mercilessly, tortured and then electrocuted by the convicts who objected to the girl's marriage with a boy from a different caste.

There is no sign of remorse or regret on the faces of these men - a father and an uncle - responsible for the murder of Asha Saini and her boyfriend Yogesh Kumar in New Delhi.Nineteen-year-old Asha and 21-year-old Yogesh wanted to get married, but Asha's family felt if she married someone of a different caste, it would dishonour the family. "W...

Five members of a family were today awarded the death penalty by the Rohini court in the 2010 Swaroop Nagar killing case where a teenaged couple were beaten up mercilessly, tortured and then electrocuted by the convicts who objected to the girl's marriage with a boy from a different caste.

There is no sign of remorse or regret on the faces of these men - a father and an uncle - responsible for the murder of Asha Saini and her boyfriend Yogesh Kumar in New Delhi.Nineteen-year-old Asha and 21-year-old Yogesh wanted to get married, but Asha's family felt if she married someone of a different caste, it would dishonour the family. "W...