Another incident of an altercation over interfaith marriage has come into limelight from Karnataka on October 8. Reportedly, a couple who had interfaith affair tied the nuptial knot of marriage had eloped from their area of residence the last month.
Recently, the woman's father reached out to the couple and called them to sort out the differences. But, the woman's father had held a grudge for her husband strangled him. Reportedly, the accused took the 24-year-old man to a private place and strangled him with the help of his son and others.
However, the last month the couple escaped and got married. They both fell in love with each other while working in a factory in 2017.
Both the families had objections to the relationship over the interfaith union.
Later, the woman's father persuaded them to return home on the outskirts of Bengaluru after promising to get them married despite the differences.
On Tuesday morning, the woman’s family took K Lakshmipathi and his elder brother to a secluded area at a village in Magadi taluk. The woman’s father and brothers convinced Lakshmipathi and his brother Nataraj that they were willing to discuss the marriage.
However the things didn't go as planned, the father strangled Lakshmipathi and his brother kept on watching it in horror. Later, Nataraj chose to narrate the incident to the police and lodged a complaint.
In his statement to the police, Nataraj has said that the woman's father and brothers first took them to a prayer hall and later inebriated them. Right after this, the woman's father started abusing Lakshmipathi over their religious differences and asked him to never even dream of marrying his daughter.
When Lakshmipathi started to protest, the group of men started thrashing them and took a belt to strangle him. Besides this, they also warned Nataraj against revealing anything and threatened to kill all his other family members.
But in a bit of relief, police have now detained the father of the woman and her brother while two others are absconding.