Is Arushi a victim of ‘honour’ killing?

From the news coming in it appears increasingly as though the Talwars had killed their own daughter for the sake of family ‘honour’. Their domestic help Hemraj was also killed on suspicion that he had compromised the same family ‘honour’.
If they were outraged by discovering Hemraj with their daughter in a compromising situation it most likely incensed them. It was done in hot diabolic passion. Or even more diabolic, they waited and found it confirmed that she did have a liaison with the domestic help. They planned the murder meticulously so that no evidence would be found. The disappearance of Hemraj would arouse suspicion. But the discovery of his dead body the following day made it even more suspicious.
The accusation of Hemraj’s widow Khumbkala that Rajesh and Nuppur killed her husband can help in the final unraveling of the truth. However, her penury and very low and humble situation in life makes it more cogent that it was after all an ‘honour’ killing. How could the Talwars swallow down that their daughter would lower herself to such aberration as to sleep with their servant?
But it casts aspersion on the Talwars. They were in the habit of going to late night parties. Drinks and free mixing of people could not be said to have prevented from exchanging of couples. The people of Talwar’s educated social class with affluence were also the ones who had a penchant for John Updike’s avant garde fiction.
By leaving their impressionable daughter alone in the house while going to late night parties defies any sense of decorum one could have. Therefore, ‘honour’ is a double edged sword it cuts those who struggle to save it in the names of family as well as those who whittle it down because of personal intimacy.
Class and status can make kiths and kins bond together so much so that it is a self adopted prerogative to enter into conspiracy and crime.
Uncles gang up with fathers to wipe out the stigma. Their male chauvinism abetted by family lineage and class consideration goes into the head and snuffs out the consideration that the victim is hapless, helpless and most vulnerable one. Each photo of Arushi bears witness to this truth as the down cast gaze of Nuppur and the twinkling of spectacles of Rajesh hide the tell tale truth of the grim face and the eyes.
What comes out of the murky deeds is that the Talwars had high connection, that Rajesh was short tempered and chased and beat Hemraj even for trivial matters. That he was influential and the post murder scenario bears it out. Perhaps that is why they have outwitted the investigation agencies so far. Dinesh, brother of Rajesh, was influential, assured of the family ‘honour’ at stake. Do you think that Khumkala and Hemraj would have ever even thought of such deeds? It is the station in life that makes or mars the high born.