19-yr old girl stoned to death by Father & Brother for being inlove with boy(Photos)

A teenage girl was stoned to death by her father and brother after bringing ‘dishonour’ to the family by meeting a boy from another village, police have claimed.

Tragic Pratibha Khan was also
strangled before her body was cruelly dumped in a field.

The battered remains of the 19-year-old, whose face had been “smashed beyond recognition”, were found close to her home in the north of India.

Shocked pal Alia Modi, 18, said:

"I was walking home through the
fields when I saw a body lying on
the ground."It was covered in
blood and when I looked at the face
it was so badly damaged I didn’t
recognise it as Pratibha’s.

It was only later that I learnt who it was and I was simply horrified.”

A police spokesman said:

"The post-mortem report showed
that while the cause of death was
strangulation, it appeared that she
had been repeatedly struck by
bricks and stones.

"Perhaps to hide her identity, some
of the blunt force injuries to her
face were made after her death,
but most weren't.”

"It looks like the brother and father dragged her to.the fields and assaulted her with bricks and stones.

They then strangled her and went on to smash her face beyond recognition.”

Pratibha’s father Jagpal, 65, and oldest brother Pradeep, 36, were both arrested after police found inconsistencies in their statements.

The police spokesman said:

"An analysis of her mobile phone
records pointed to the involvement
of her family members, in
particular the brother and father.

"Initially, her brother Pradeep was
questioned and claimed she was
killed by her lover.

"It was only later when we interrogated Pradeep and his father
Jagpal separately that we were able
to find inconsistencies in their
statements.

"Eventually they admitted that they
had killed her because she was in
love with another boy from a
nearby village.”

One of the girl’s other brothers Prabhat, 33, said:

"I am neither sorry nor surprised
that my sister is dead.If what
people say is true, then I am not
surprised that my father and
brother killed her."