Commission seeks report from Hyd police in honour killing case

NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes on Friday sought a report from the Hyderabad police on the action taken by them in the case of an alleged honour killing in Telangana.

B Nagaraju, a Dalit in his mid-20s, was travelling on a motorcycle with his wife when he was confronted by his attackers — Syed Mobin Ahmed and Mohammed Masood Ahmed — who came on a scooter, stopped the couple and attacked the man in full public view at Saroornagar in Hyderabad.

Mobin Ahmed is the woman's brother and Masood Ahmed is one of their relatives.

"Send @TelanganaDGP and @TelanganaCS action taken report to @NCSC_GoI as soon as possible," the commission's chairperson Vijay Sampla said in a tweet.

Nagaraju and his wife were in love with each other for a long time and they got married in January this year against the wishes of the woman's family members, police said.

Based on preliminary investigation, a senior police official told reporters that Mobin Ahmed (the brother of the victim's wife) was against his sister's relationship with Nagaraju and hence decided to "eliminate" him.