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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Special Correspondent

BJP seeks DGP probe into inter-faith marriage murder

Telangana BJP on Sunday requested Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan to direct the TS Government to order an inquiry by the Director General of Police (DGP) into the brutal killing of dalit yourh Billapuram Nagaraju and also to extend financial help to the bereaved family besides a government job.

In a memorandum submitted to the Governor at the Raj Bhavan, the BJP leaders led by former MP Vivek Venkatswamy, P. Babu Mohan, Ch. Sambamurthy and others narrated the incident of May 4 when around 9 p.m. at Saroornagar the husband of  Syed Ashrin Sultana was killed on the busy road allegedly by her brother and his accomplices. 

The incident happened when the wife and husband were on their way home on a two-wheeler. The attackers pounced on Nagaraju when the wife and husband fell from their bike in their bid to escape the attackers, and beat him with rods and other weapons killing him on the spot. 

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