Indian girl kills father and brother over love affair dispute The case, which has shocked women's rights campaigners and police officers alike, is a reversal of the usual outcome in cases where a girl disobeys her parents over a relationship: She either elopes and returns to forgiveness a few years later, or is murdered by relatives in an 'honour killing.' Instead, when Khushboo Kumari's parents told her she was forbidden from seeing her boyfriend Vijay Kumar she cooked them a meal, a vegetable curry with okra, and laced it with poison. According to detectives, her father Shiv Mahato, a 40 year old farmer, and her 12 year old brother Akash died after eating the meal. Her mother, Anita Devi, escaped however when she told her daughter to pack away her portion to eat the following day. Police believe Kumari, who is now awaiting trial in a juvenile remand home in Patna, hatched the plan with her boyfriend and his mother, both of whom are now on the run to avoid arrest. This is a most unusual case. Usually they run away to another place and when they come back a year later the family usually accepts them. Her parents objected to her lover and wanted her to study and stay at home. She was angry and mixed their dinner, vegetables with [Okra], with poison. The samples are now with our forensic lab," said Vaishali's deputy Superintendent of Police Pritish Kumar. Ranjana Kumari, a leading women's rights campaigner, said she could not think of a similar case and speculated that the girl may have murdered her father and brother out of fear that they might otherwise kill her for 'honour.' There was a case 20 years ago where a woman killed her whole family with her boyfriend, but she was 27, a mature woman. Maybe this girl has done this out of fear," she said. She said another case where a senior member of the state legislature in Assam was attacked by a mob because she had left her husband for another man highlighted the threat of social conservatism in India. "These things are socially unacceptable in India and they put a lot of pressure on young girls by teaching a lesson to the ones who do it," she said.