http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080102/ap_on_re_us/apartment_fire father burns apartments down because he doesnt like the caste of his son in law and we let them in because we 'value diversity' f-cking nuts MARKHAM, Ill. - A suburban Chicago man is accused of setting an apartment fire â killing his pregnant daughter, her husband and their young child â because the son-in-law didn't ask permission for the marriage, prosecutors said. ADVERTISEMENT Subhash Chander, 57, of Oak Forest was ordered held without bond Tuesday on three counts of first-degree murder, one count of intentional homicide of an unborn child and one count of aggravated arson. Prosecutors allege Chander used gasoline to start the fire late Saturday. The India native told police he disliked his son-in-law because he belonged to a lower caste and had married his daughter without his consent, said Cook County First Assistant State's Attorney Robert Milan. "His son-in-law was beneath him in his opinion," Milan said. But Chander's sister, Kamla Devi, told WBBM-AM that her brother is innocent. She said that relatives approved of the marriage and that the caste system was not a consideration for her family in India, nor is it a consideration now in the United States. "There was no family problem. There was nothing going on. Absolutely nothing," Devi said. Devi told the radio station that the family is from Chandigarh in northern India. The Cook County medical examiner's office said the victims died of carbon-monoxide poisoning and smoke and soot inhalation. Milan identified the victims as 22-year-old Monika Rani, her 36-year-old husband, Rajesh Kumar, and their 3-year-old son, Vansh. Rani was five months pregnant, Milan said. Chander had a public defender in bond court Tuesday, Milan said, but The Associated Press was unable to determine who it was. A call to a listing for Chander reached a man who said it was a wrong number. Chander told police the gasoline spilled during "a pushing match" with his son-in-law, Milan said. Chander also told police that he ignited the gas with a lighter because he was angry, Milan said. But prosecutors said the victims may have been asleep. All other residents of the apartment building were able to escape, Milan said. It took firefighters three hours to extinguish the blaze, which gutted the 36-unit Le Claire Station Apartments.
Sad, I'll agree but the issue here isn't India or social order. The underlying problem is much larger. Extremes such as mental illness, depravity, rage, jealousy, murder...etc. don't discriminate. They don't care about the colour of your skin or to whom you pray. Extremes are equal opportunity. I think intuitively we all know this yet we attack the vessel and not the root cause. I wish we had an answer but first we need to define the question.
what's to define? 'The India native told police he disliked his son-in-law because he belonged to a lower caste ' do you think he's making that up????? he did it because of caste!!! i worked with an h-1b from india, he said people in india set fires all the time in protest of about anything you want to believe the mantras, that all immigrants come here, assimilate and 'contribute to the American Dream' whereas in reality, many of them bring their 3rd world bullsh-t with them, and turn this country into the 3rd world they came from political correctness is the refusal to see what right in front of you