Woman murdered for marrying Dalit in Tamil Nadu

CHENNAI: In a gruesome honour killing, a 21-year-old woman was brutally murdered by her father and relatives in Tirupur district of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday for marrying a Dalit youth.
Sripriya, who belonged to the backward Kallar community, had fallen love with A Badhrakali, while she was doing an internship for her B.Ed course.
The couple eloped and got married in Salem on September 29.Police and relatives said Sripriya���s father Srinivasan and two relatives came to Madathukulam, near Udumalpet in Tirupur district, on Wednesday. The newly-wed couple was staying with Badhrakali���s sister in Madathukulam. Srinivasan asked Sripriya to come to Trichi to visit her mother who was ill.
������She refused and told them she would decide after her husband returned home. They left quietly,������ Badhrakali���s brother-in-law Chandrasekar said. ������Then the two relatives returned. When my wife Rani and a neighbour questioned them, one man threatened them with a knife while the other stabbed Sripriya,������ said Chandrasekar. Sripriya was stabbed on her neck, breasts and abdomen.