2008 Murshidabad murder

People killed by Islamic terrorism April 2017 April 2017 The 2008 Murshibad murder was the beheading of Shailendra Prasad, a Hindu labourer from Bihar for marrying Munira Bibi a Muslim girl from West Bengal, on the orders of a bn shalishi court in Murshidabad on 14 July 2008.http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080801/jsp/frontpage/story_9631281.jsp https://web.archive.org/web/20080805202756/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080801/jsp/frontpage/story_9631281.jsp dead 5 August 2008 Kangaroo court executes husband The Telegraph August 1, 2008 October 15, 2010 Kolkatahttp://www.telegraphindia.com/1080801/jsp/bengal/story_9631273.jsp https://web.archive.org/web/20121025180825/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080801/jsp/bengal/story_9631273.jsp dead 25 October 2012 Courts outside pale of law The Telegraph August 1, 2008 October 15, 2010 KolkataSamim Ahmed http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080819/jsp/opinion/story_9704267.jsp https://web.archive.org/web/20081203140129/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080819/jsp/opinion/story_9704267.jsp dead 3 December 2008 RULE OF FAITH IN MATTERS OF THE HEART The Telegraph August 19, 2008 October 15, 2010 Kolkatahttp://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?594712 Kangaroo court 'executes' man for marrying outside religion Outlook August 1, 2008 October 15, 2010 New Delhi https://web.archive.org/web/20100330165806/http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?594712 30 March 2010 dead dmy-all Youth killed for marrying Muslim Brahmachari Pranmoy 31 July 2008 The Asian Age Munira Bibi, the widow of the victim, eventually regretted her ill-fated visit to her parental home where she lost her husband.http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080802/jsp/siliguri/story_9635970.jsp https://web.archive.org/web/20131109124515/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080802/jsp/siliguri/story_9635970.jsp dead 9 November 2013 25-yr-old widow regrets trip The Telegraph August 2, 2008 October 15, 2010 Kolkata Background Shailendra Prasad, a native of Bihar, worked as a labourer in Mumbai, where Munira worked as a maid servant. They fell in love and married in 2001. Munira came from an orthodox village, where a bn shalishi court had fined her father Ansari Sheikh a sum of two hundred rupees for sending his daughter to work in Mumbai. Trial and execution The couple visited Lakshmanpur again in July 2008, this time with their ten-month-old son. As on the previous occasion, Shailendra had to assume the identity of Munna Sheikh to escape the wrath of the orthodox villagers. His father-in-law Ansari Sheikh, however, noticed that he did not offer his Friday prayers, nor responded spontaneously to greetings. On 14 July, Ansari Sheikh overheard a muttering from Shailendra during a religious ritual, that was a dead giveaway of his religion and informed the village elders his suspicion in the afternoon. A bn shalishi court was convened on the grounds of the village primary school that evening by the village elders. At the court, Shailendra was forcibly disrobed to check his religious identity and when he was found uncircumcised he was beaten up severely. Twenty-two political and religious leaders of the bn shalishi court, along with Ansari Sheikh, pronounced Shailendra guilty of marrying a Muslim girl and awarded him the death sentence. His hands and feet were tied up. He was gagged and taken to a nearby jute field, where his throat was slit by four executioners. As Shailendra Prasad went missing from the night of 14 July, his wife Munira Bibi believed that he had fled to Mumbai. Her father had kept everything from her mother and brother. On 27 July, when Munira learned of her husband's fate from other villagers she accompanied her mother and brother to the Berhampore police station to lodge a formal complaint. The police had already discovered the beheaded body of an unidentified man inside a gunny bag lying in the jute fields ten days before on 17 July. On 28 July, the police raided the village and arrested three persons who presided over the bn shalishi. The rest of the villagers who took part in the bn shalishi and Ansari Sheikh fled the village. On 1 August, a large police force led by the additionalMarch 2013 Superintendent of Police Debashis Bej raided the village of Lakshmanpur and detained 26 villagers for interrogation. Home Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakrabarti promised to take the strictest possible action against the culprits. 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