Compiled by C.ARUNO, MARTIN CARVALHO, AND R. ARAVINTHAN
A TEENAGE boy was shot and killed by his girlfriend’s father after he jumped over a wall of their house to meet her, Makkal Osai reported.
Identified only as Lavkush, the 18-year-old boy had apparently been having secret meetings with the girl for a few nights.
Residing in his sister’s home in Etawah, a city in the Uttar Pradesh state of India, he had apparently found a way to climb over the wall at night to meet his girlfriend.
After learning about the young couple’s meetings, the girl’s father decided to teach him a lesson.
One night, he waited for the boy and fired a shot in his direction as soon as he entered the compound of the house.
Villagers, who heard the gunshot, came running and found the boy on the ground bleeding from the gunshot wound.
Lavkush died on the spot and the girl’s father was taken into custody.
It is not yet clear whether the man had intended to kill the teenager or merely sought to scare him.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
