(Express Photo by Ramendra Gautam) Mukesh Kumar’s father Ravindra Sah and younger brother Niranjan in Banhora village. “He was such a bright student… I have lost my son and I want justice,” he says at his home in Banhora village deep inside Bihar’s West Champaran district. About 4 km away, a tense silence shrouds the locked home of Noorjehan Khatun, the 17-year-old daughter of Tajmohammed Mian in Balua Mahali Tola. Between the tears and the tension, lies the story of what police say is Bihar’s first recorded case of “honour killing”. Banhora and Balua Mahali Tola fall under Bardaha, a Hindu-dominated panchayat with around 20 Muslim households.

Source: Indian Express November 30, 2017 23:00 UTC