A 25-year-old Hindu man was hacked to dying in broad public view at a busy crossing in Hyderabad on Wednesday evening by his Muslim spouse’s brother and one other individual in a case of suspected honour killing, with the incident sending shockwaves after the gory homicide, that was caught on digicam, went viral.
The incident occurred on Wednesday evening at Saroornagar when the sufferer, B Nagaraju, a Dalit was travelling on a motorcycle along with his spouse and was confronted by his attackers — Syed Mobin Ahmed and Mohammed Masood Ahmed — who got here on a scooter, stopped the couple on the street and attacked the person in full public view with an iron rod earlier than stabbing him with a knife, killing him on the spot, police stated. Both individuals have been arrested.
Police stated Syed Mobin Ahmed was against his sister’s relationship with Nagaraju, and had even warned her in opposition to it. After stopping the couple, the duo pushed Nagaraju to the bottom and beat him up indiscriminately with the rod and stabbed him to dying and at last fled the place, police stated. Both the accused have been arrested on Thursday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (LB Nagar Zone) Sunpreet Singh advised reporters a homicide case beneath related Indian Penal Code sections and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015 was registered. The case could be tried in a fast-track courtroom, the DCP added.
The sufferer’s distraught spouse advised the media she knew her husband for the final 11 years and claimed 5 individuals attacked him. The Hindu-Muslim couple have been classmates in class and school and have been in love for greater than 5 years whilst her household was in opposition to the connection. They obtained married in January this yr in opposition to the needs of her members of the family, police stated.
Mobin Ahmed had warned his sister previously, police stated, including she subsequently walked out of her home to marry Nagaraju. Since then Mobin Ahmed was nursing a grudge in opposition to Nagaraju, police stated. He had been planning to eradicate Nagaraju and alongside along with his relative hatched a plan and carried out it on Wednesday, police stated. The sufferer’s father additionally alleged Mobin Ahmed was against the inter-faith marriage.
Condemning the incident, Telangana BJP president and Lok Sabha member Bandi Sanjay Kumar stated Nagaraju was focused as a result of he married a Muslim lady and dubbed it as a “religious murder.” He demanded that the culprits must be recognized and “the forces and organisations behind them be made public”.
In a press release, he requested as to why the so-called secular events and secular intellectuals weren’t responding on such a ghastly homicide, whilst he said that his get together is described as communal when it referred to sure religiously fanatic outfits allegedly indulging in ‘love jihad”.
‘Love jihad’ is a time period utilized by the saffron get together and proper wing organisations to assert non secular conversion of non-Muslim girls, primarily Hindus within the guise of affection by Muslim males. The ‘pseudo-secularists’ ought to inform folks what kind of incident the current homicide is, he stated.
Kumar additionally requested as to why “progressive people” and “progressive media” who have been vociferous over “honour killing” at Miryalguda previously have been tight-lipped now. The BJP chief, recognized for his robust Hindutva views, additionally stated the Hindu society ought to condemn such incidents and query communal forces and organisations and the so-called secular events.
Condemning the incident, some organisations raised slogans demanding justice. The couple had obtained married at Arya Samaj in Old City of Hyderabad on January 31.
(With PTI inputs)
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