In another incident of honour killing, a man has been arrested for allegedly killing his 17-year-old daughter in Mehrana Kalan village under the Dehlon police station in Jagraon on Monday.

Nirmal Singh pumped two bullets into his daughter Inderjot Kaur from a .315 bore rifle on Monday afternoon after he objected to his daughter's involvement with one Beant Singh of the same village. Sources said that after killing his daughter, he unsuccessfully tried to trace Bean Singh to kill him as well.

No one was at home when the incident took place. After killing his daughter, Nirmal Singh did not try to flee and did not show any signs of repentance. When his wife Narinder Kaur returned home, he told her that he felt relieved after killing their daughter.

Narinder said in her statement that Inderjot wanted to stay with Beant Singh and it had triggered the anger in Narinder. The accused was not on speaking terms with his daughter as the latter had earlier eloped with Beant Singh to Malaysia but had returned later.

When she returned home, perturbed Nirmal Singh went away for some time but returned later as he thought that his daughter's act has brought disgrace to the family, the police said.

The police said that apart from Nirmal Singh, no one in the family, including the mother and brother of the deceased, had any objections to the relationship.