A 26-year-old Dalit man, Billipuram Nagaraju, was brutally beaten and stabbed to death on a busy road in Saroornagar in Hyderabad. Two men killed the man for allegedly marrying a woman from the Muslim community against their family’s wishes.
4 May
The incident took place at around 9 pm on Wednesday, 4 May. The couple were traveling on their two-wheeler at around 9PM on Wednesday. The woman’s brother and another relative followed the couple on a bike.
Beaten brutally
They stopped the couple and hit the victim with an iron rod on his head and also attacked him with a knife. When onlookers tried to stop them, they were threatened, police said.
Nagaraju immediately succumbed to the blows. The victim belongs to the Mala community, categorized as Scheduled Caste in the state.
The woman claims five people attacked them
The police said that two men indulged in the attack. Whereas, Syed Ashrin Sulthana, the victim’s wife, said that five men attacked them. Meanwhile, speaking to the media, Ashrin told that they were in a relationship since Class 10.
She said that despite Nagaraju’s efforts to convince the family, they declined all his proposals. “He even told my mother that he will convert to Islam, but still they never accepted the proposal,”
Away from Hyderabad
Ashrin said. After their marriage, the couple were living in Panjala Anil Kumar Colony in Saroornagar, and Nagaraju was working as a car salesman.
However, the couple shifted to Visakhapatnam for a brief period, as they suspected that they had a threat to life. They returned to the city just five days ago.
Case registered
However, Police Register Case Under Section 302
Assistant Commissioner of Police, LB Nagar zone, P Sreedhar Reddy said, “The woman’s brother and her relative had found the residence of the couple.
The two people attacked the victim with an iron rod and knife. Preliminary investigation revealed that two persons attacked the victim. We are conducting further investigation.”
Mild tension prevailed
Meanwhile, BJP activists gathered and raised slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ while demanding justice for the victim. The protesting BJP activists demanded prompt punishment to the accused.
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