Hyderabad man’s murder given communal angle
Social media users are claiming that a man named Harish in Telangana was killed by the family of his Muslim wife 10 days after their marriage.
By Md Mahfooz Alam Published on 6 March 2023 4:05 PM IST
(Screengrab source: Twitter)
Hyderabad: Social media users are claiming that a man named Harish in Telangana was killed by the family of his Muslim wife 10 days after their marriage.
Journalist Abhay Pratap Singh of Sudarshan TV shared a photo of the man and wrote, “Hindu boy DJ Deverakonda Harish (28), brutally stabbed to death by his Muslim Wife’s family member after 10 days of inter-faith marriage, near Hanuman Temple, Dulapally, Telangana.”
(Screengrab source: Twitter/Archive)
Several other Twitter users shared the image with the same claim. (Click here and here to see more tweets.)
Fact Check
NewsMeter reached out to Gouri Prashanth, SHO of Petbasheerabad police station. He rubbished the claim of any communal angle.
We have also accessed a press note released by the Petbasheerabad police, according to which the deceased, Devarakonda Harish, was in love with a girl for five months. Deendhayal, the girl’s brother, had warned Harish and had asked him to stay away from her. On 22 February, the couple eloped to get married. On 1 March, Harish was stabbed to death by Deendhayal and his associates.
The police registered a case of murder under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and arrested eleven accused—Deendhayal, Trimukhe Naresh, Polacheruvu Venkatesh Goud, Kalibhavaniwale Rohith Singh, Band Venkat, Gaddam Akshay Kumar, Parwary Aniketh, Koyalkar Manish, Bure Sainath, Mathangi Rajendra Kumar and Gouti Navanith.
The Indian Express and The Hindu reported the murder. Both reports said the prime suspect in the murder is the brother of the girl and the accused and deceased are from the same community.
Hence, we conclude that the claim that Harish was killed by his wife’s Muslim family is false.
