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This is an archive article published on August 5, 2024
Man beaten to death by wife’s family over interfaith marriage in Gujarat’s Devbhumi Dwarka, 6 arrested
The victim was allegedly assaulted with sticks and axes by his in-laws on Saturday morning and he succumbed to injuries later in the day.
At Bhanvad police station on Sunday. (Photo courtesy of Devbhumi Dwarka police).
A 24-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by his wife’s relatives, who disapproved of her interfaith marriage, in the Devbhumi Dwarka district of Gujarat on Saturday. As tension gripped the village, the police on Monday said six people were arrested in connection with the murder.
The victim was identified as Yagnik Dudhrejiya. The accused allegedly assaulted him with sticks and axes while he was sitting at a place in the Shedhakhai village at 6.45 am. Dhudhrejiya was rushed to a government hospital in Jamnagar city, where he died late in the evening, said the police.
“The victim is a native of Shedhakhai village. He and a woman from a different community married around one-and-a-half years ago. However, the woman’s family members disapproved of her marriage to a man from another community. However, the couple persisted and were living elsewhere. But they returned to Shedhakhai around 45 days ago,” K K Maru, Sub Inspector of the Bhanvad police station, told The Indian Express on Monday.
Mauru said Dhudhrejiya and his wife welcomed a baby girl about a month and a half ago. However, the threats from the woman’s family persisted.
After the attack, based on a complaint filed by Dhudhrejiya’s mother Nirmala, an offence was registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita’s sections 103(2) (murder committed by a group of five or more persons on the grounds of race, caste or community or sex), 189(2) (unlawful assembly), 189(4) (unlawful assembly of members armed with deadly weapons), 191(2) (rioting), 191(3) (rioting with deadly weapons) and 190 (common intent of members of an unlawful assembly in committing a crime).
“We have arrested six men. They include the victim’s brother-in-law and the woman’s uncles. One juvenile has also been detained and he would be produced before the Juvenile Justice Board,” Maru said, adding that police would produce the six arrested men in court and seek their remand later on Monday.
The SI said police personnel were deployed in the Shedhakhai village after the incident. “However, there has been no further violence in the village, and the situation is under control,” said Maru.
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