Dad, uncle and brother kill girl in love with SC boy in Karnataka's Tumakuru

MANGALURU: A 17-year-old girl from a Scheduled Tribe community was allegedly killed by her father, uncle and elder brother for falling in love with a Scheduled Caste boy in Tumakuru district.
According to police, the girl was a II PU student of a government junior college in Sira and staying in a hostel there. She was from Chikkahedigehalli in Gubbi taluk of Tumakuru district.
The girl, who belonged to Nayaka community, an ST, fell in love with an SC boy, a final-year BCom student from a private college in Sira, and they both decided to get married.The boy too is from Sira.
Tumakuru police officials said the girl was to turn 18 in three months. Without informing her parents, she went missing for some time. Instead of approaching police, the girl's family members searched for her and brought her back home on June 9.
Police said that the same day, the girl's father uncle and brother allegedly forced her to drink poison in a sheep shed in their village. When she refused to do so, they strangled her with a rope used to tie sheep and killed her. The family allegedly projected the incident as suicide by consuming poison and also performed her last rites.
However, villagers got suspicious and informed police about the incident. Cheluru police conducted an inquiry and found that the girl was allegedly murdered by the family.
On June 10, police arrested the girl's father Parashurama, uncle Tukarama and her elder brother Shivaraju on charges of murdering her.
Tumakuru superintendent of police Rahul Kumar Shahapurwad told TOI: "Initially, we had registered a case of suicidal death and also destruction of evidence. After conducting an inquiry, we converted the case into one of murder."