Hindu youth in interfaith marriage killed by wife’s kin

HYDERABAD: A 25-year-old Hindu man was brutally killed in broad public view here by his Muslim wife’s brother and another person in a case of suspected honour killing, with the incident sending shockwaves after the gory murder that was caught on camera went viral.

The incident happened on Wednesday night in the city suburbs of Saroornagar when the victim,

B Nagaraju

, a

Dalit

, was travelling on a motorbike with his wife and was confronted by his attackers — Syed

Mobin Ahmed

and

Mohammed Masood Ahmed

. The duo came on a scooter, stopped the couple on the road and attacked the man with an iron rod before stabbing him with a knife, killing him on the spot, police said. Both persons have been arrested.

Police said Syed Mobin Ahmed was opposed to his sister’s relationship with Nagaraju, and had even warned her against it.

Both the accused were arrested on Thursday. The case would be tried in a fast-track court, police said. The victim’s wife told the media she knew her husband for the last 11 years and claimed five people attacked him.

The Hindu-Muslim couple were classmates in school and college and were in love for more than five years even as her family was against the relationship. They got married in January this year against the wishes of her family, police said.

Mobin Ahmed had warned his sister in the past, police said, adding she subsequently walked out of her house to marry Nagaraju.

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