Honour killing case: brother andcousin involved, alleges woman

23-year-old man dead, wife critical after they were attacked on Thursday night

For the first time in nearly a year, Vinay and his father spoke over the phone 10 days ago. “It was a 10-minute call. He asked me how I was and I said I was fine,” the father said before breaking into tears. In a suspected case of honour killing, the 23-year-old man, Vinay, was shot dead while his 19-year-old wife injured in a village in Dwarka on Thursday night, the police said on Friday. The woman, Kiran Dahiya, who sustained five bullet injuries, is said to be critical. Vinay’s 59-year-old father Om Prakash, who works at a post office, was at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital on Friday along with his brother and his son’s friend. He was waiting for his son’s body. The last time he had met the son was in August 2020, right before the couple left the village to get married.