TNN | Mar 14, 2012, 04.45AM IST
MYSORE: In a suspected case of honour killing, a girl belonging to an upper caste was allegedly murdered on Tuesday by her brother because of her relationship with a boy from a different community.
Smruthi D K, 27, an assistant professor of Kannada, was smothered to death by her brother Mahadev at her Alanahalli residence in the wee hours of Tuesday. The incident came to light after her roommate Savitha returned to Mysore from Kochi. Mahadeva is absconding, police said.
Police sources confirmed that Smruthi's family was looking for an alliance for her and sought the assistance of a relative. She works at the Government First Grade College, Kuderu in Chamarajanagar district.
Smruthi, a native of Dindagadu in Periyapatna taluk, informed her family about her relationship with Sudeep Kumar. Enraged by it they tried to convince her to end it. Her younger brother Mahadeva was in Mysore for the past three days and there had been frequent arguments.
Her neighbour Vinay, an employee at a star hotel, told police the verbal duels between brother the sister went on till late Monday night. "Though my mother and I tried to intervene around Monday midnight, they didn't open the main door. We left the place and decided to talk to them in the morning," Vinay told police.
Around 11pm on Monday Mahadeva came home apparently drunk. Smruthi's grandmother Nanjamma, 72, told the police that Mahadeva locked Smruthi inside a room and scolded her over the marriage proposal. "I begged him to leave her alone," she said, adding that he left home around 1.30am.
Around 4.30am, Smruthi's roommate Savitha returned home and found an inconsolable Nanjamma who told her about the tragedy. Smruthi was taken to hospital by bus and was declared brought dead.
Sudeep Kumar, assistant physical education director, Tumkur University, said he was in love with Smruthi since their PG course in University of Mysore in 2004. "We got married at a sub-registrar's office in November 2011 but we've been living separately. I stayed in Tumkur while Smruthi, who worked in Chamarajanagar, lived in Mysore. I came to know about the incident from her friend Savitha at 4.47am," he said.
A police officer claimed that, but for Mahadeva, there was no opposition from other family members. Smruthi had told Sudeep she'd convince her relatives. Smruthi's father Kendagannaiah died about a year back. A case of murder has been filed at the Nazarbad police station.
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Smruthi D K, 27, an assistant professor of Kannada, was smothered to death by her brother Mahadev at her Alanahalli residence in the wee hours of Tuesday. The incident came to light after her roommate Savitha returned to Mysore from Kochi. Mahadeva is absconding, police said.
Police sources confirmed that Smruthi's family was looking for an alliance for her and sought the assistance of a relative. She works at the Government First Grade College, Kuderu in Chamarajanagar district.
Smruthi, a native of Dindagadu in Periyapatna taluk, informed her family about her relationship with Sudeep Kumar. Enraged by it they tried to convince her to end it. Her younger brother Mahadeva was in Mysore for the past three days and there had been frequent arguments.
Her neighbour Vinay, an employee at a star hotel, told police the verbal duels between brother the sister went on till late Monday night. "Though my mother and I tried to intervene around Monday midnight, they didn't open the main door. We left the place and decided to talk to them in the morning," Vinay told police.
Around 11pm on Monday Mahadeva came home apparently drunk. Smruthi's grandmother Nanjamma, 72, told the police that Mahadeva locked Smruthi inside a room and scolded her over the marriage proposal. "I begged him to leave her alone," she said, adding that he left home around 1.30am.
Around 4.30am, Smruthi's roommate Savitha returned home and found an inconsolable Nanjamma who told her about the tragedy. Smruthi was taken to hospital by bus and was declared brought dead.
Sudeep Kumar, assistant physical education director, Tumkur University, said he was in love with Smruthi since their PG course in University of Mysore in 2004. "We got married at a sub-registrar's office in November 2011 but we've been living separately. I stayed in Tumkur while Smruthi, who worked in Chamarajanagar, lived in Mysore. I came to know about the incident from her friend Savitha at 4.47am," he said.
A police officer claimed that, but for Mahadeva, there was no opposition from other family members. Smruthi had told Sudeep she'd convince her relatives. Smruthi's father Kendagannaiah died about a year back. A case of murder has been filed at the Nazarbad police station.
Link: Brother kills sister for honour in Mysore
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