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Lucknow/New Delhi: A
senior Uttar Pradesh police officer was caught on camera telling
an aged man in Saharanpur that he should either kill his daughter,
who had eloped, or commit suicide, prompting calls for his
resignation from the National Commission for Women (NCW) for
advocating honour killing.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Saharanpur Satish Kumar Mathur
told a petitioner from Kaserwa Khurd, Shaukeen, that the matter of
his daughter's elopment was one of great shame. Had it been him,
Mathur said, he would have either shot dead the daughter or killed
himself.
Mathur was caught on video camera by local journalists who were at
the spot to cover his inspection of a police station. The clip was
soon broadcast on national television, triggering an outcry.
"I don't have magical powers to recover your daughter," Mathur is
heard as telling Shaukeen, whose daughter had allegedly run away.
"But if your daughter has eloped then you should be ashamed of it
and end your life. I would have killed my sister if she had eloped
or else I would have committed suicide," Mathur said.
The state government ordered a probe into the matter and asked the
inspector general (IG) of Meerut to look into the matter and come
back to the government with the facts.
NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma demanded that he be suspended
immediately.
"The statement of the DIG is irresponsible and he must be
suspended immediately. Is this what they are being taught in the
police force. This is very disturbing. The DIG should be suspended
without further ado," Sharma told reporters in New Delhi.
The Congress also spoke out against him.
"It seems the person continues to live in the 19th century. If at
all somebody has articulated such obscurantist sentiments, I think
the state government should send them for retraining so that they
can be speak in sync with the 21st century," Congress spokesperson
Manish Tewari told a news channel.
Uttar Pradesh's Additional Director General (ADG) Law & Order
Jagmohan Yadav initially said Mathur had told him he'd been
misquoted. Yadav then conceded that if the matter was what was
shown on television, it was "serious and against social values".
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