The parents of an IT engineer who married her low caste boyfriend lured her home with the promise of a family wedding reception and then allegedly strangled her.
A 25 year old software engineer's traditional bride’s mehendi tattoo was still fresh on her hands when her body was discovered at her family home near Hyderabad.
The death has highlighted the rising number of honour killings in India as more mixed caste-couples form relationships in defiance of their families. There are more than 1,000 ‘honour killings’ in India every year of couples who reject ‘love marriages’ to marry for love.
P Deepthi, a member of the the higher Kamma caste worked for the Indian IT firm HCL and had been seeing her boyfriend Kiran Kumar, from the lower Kapu caste, for more than two years.
Her parents had known about the relationship and had beaten her on several occasions to force her to end it. They had been planning to force her to marry a man from her own caste when she became aware of the plot and secretly married her fiancé. Full story...
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A 25 year old software engineer's traditional bride’s mehendi tattoo was still fresh on her hands when her body was discovered at her family home near Hyderabad.
The death has highlighted the rising number of honour killings in India as more mixed caste-couples form relationships in defiance of their families. There are more than 1,000 ‘honour killings’ in India every year of couples who reject ‘love marriages’ to marry for love.
P Deepthi, a member of the the higher Kamma caste worked for the Indian IT firm HCL and had been seeing her boyfriend Kiran Kumar, from the lower Kapu caste, for more than two years.
Her parents had known about the relationship and had beaten her on several occasions to force her to end it. They had been planning to force her to marry a man from her own caste when she became aware of the plot and secretly married her fiancé. Full story...
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