Indian Dalit Man Hacked to Death in 'Caste Honour Killing'
BBC
A man from India's Dalit community has been hacked to death on a crowded road in a suspected honour killing in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
Police say Sankar, 22, was murdered for marrying a woman from a higher caste. She was injured in the assault.
Her father handed himself in and admitted to carrying out the attack on a busy road in daylight, police said.
Dalits, formerly known as untouchables, form the lowest rung of India's caste hierarchy.
Sankar's marriage had been opposed by his wife Kausalya's family, who belong to a higher, more influential caste, the victim's brother, told BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi.
"Some months ago, Kausalya's family threatened us and afterwards, her parents and relatives came home and asked my sister-in-law to return with them. She refused," the brother Vigneswaran, who uses only one name, said.
Kausalya's father China Swamy later gave himself up in a magistrate's court, police said.
"He has told the court that he takes responsibility for the death of Sankar as well as the attack on his daughter," he added.
Sankar's family have refused to take the body from the hospital until all the attackers are arrested.
CCTV footage broadcast on Indian television channels showed the couple walking on a busy street in Udumalpet town, in Tirupur district, when they were attacked by three men armed with sharp weapons.
People watched in horror as the attackers then fled on a motorcycle.
The young man died on the way to the hospital, while his wife is recovering from the attack.
Photographs of her seated on her hospital bed have gone viral on social media.
The Dalit community in the town are protesting over the incident, our correspondent says.
According to one study, hundreds of people are killed each year in India for falling in love or marrying against their families' wishes.
According to one study, hundreds of people are killed each year in India for falling in love or marrying against their families' wishes.
A man from India's Dalit community has been hacked to death on a crowded road in a suspected honour killing in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Dalits, formerly known as untouchables, form the lowest rung of India's caste hierarchy. BBC
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A father attacked his 20-year-old daughter and her newlywed husband in the heart of the city on Wednesday, chopping off her left forearm and slashing her jaw. The incident comes days after a Dalit youth was mercilessly murdered in front his pregnant wife in Nalgonda district.
Police said the father was upset over the inter-caste marriage — the woman an OBC (Other Backward Class), her husband, B Sandeep (22), a Dalit. Sandeep and Madhavi Chary, in a relationship for five years, secretly got married on September 12, despite stiff opposition from her father.
Madhavi was left with a 12-inch gash on her neck and jawline and her left forearm barely hung by the skin. She was in a 10-hour surgery at the time of going to print. Sandeep, in another hospital, received 10 stitches to close the deep wound at the angle of his mouth; the attending doctors said he was in deep shock.
