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DELHI: An Indian student from the lowest Dalit caste was hacked
to death and his wife became a mark of “honor killing” by relatives annoyed by
their marriage, police said Monday.
Police
commissioner N Manjunatha said the 19-year-old woman’s relatives were annoyed
by the couple’s marriage.
“They
married some eight months past and the woman’s family was unhappy. She is an
upper Thevar Hindu caste and the man was a Dalit,” Manjunatha told AFP.
The
woman is getting better at a local hospital and police is searching for her
uncle in connection with the attack, he said.
CCTV
footage of the incident transmission on Indian television showed the couple
walking along the street when three men on a motorbike stop and attack them.
Thevars
are a dominant community in Tamil Nadu while Dalits, formerly known as
untouchables, are a historically sidelined community.
India
has long witnessed so-called honour killings, where couples are targeted
because their families or communities criticize of their relationships over caste
or religion. Most occur in rural areas of the north.
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