A 19-year-old Dalit woman was reportedly killed and then set on Fire by her former boyfriend in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district.
The mother of a 19-year-old Dalit woman has said that her daughter was tortured by the accused for the last one year and she had approached the police but no action was taken.
Snehalata, a Hockey player who was a resident of Ashok Nagar area, was working as an outsourcing employee in SBI Dharmavaram branch. She used to go to work on a two-wheeler. On Tuesday night, she did not return home after which the worried parents filed a missing report at the local Police station on that night. The police on Wednesday found a partially burnt body near Dharmavaram town, which was later identified as victims by her parents.
The accused Gooty Rajesh, an upper caste man has been arrested the Andra Police.
NDTV Quoted the Police officials as having said that Snehalatha dated Gooty Rajesh, but had distanced herself after she got a contract job in the bank. She later grew close to her classmate in college, and this allegedly angered Rajesh, who devised a plan to kill her.
Dalit girl murdered (in the name of Love) in Ananthapur, AP.
Snehalatha, a Bright Student & SBI (Out sourcing) Employee.
She's been harassed since her school days. Policeman suggested to migrate somewhere else instead of taking action against the accused. Shame on Police Dept. ? pic.twitter.com/gALAGV2bP0— Radhika Vemula (@vemula_radhika) December 24, 2020
The Call records revealed that Snehalatha and Rajesh spoke 1,618 times in the last one year, the report added.
Rajesh, on Tuesday committed the crime by inviting Snehalatha for a meeting and reportedly took her on his bike during which he strangled her and later burnt down her body.
The former chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu demanded CBI probe into Sneha Latha murder and said that the incident was more horrifying than the Nirbhaya case while accusing the current chief Minister of reamining silent on increased cases of violence against Dalits and other minorities.
Meanwhile on twitter, users have been demanding justice for Snehalata using the hashtag #JusticeForSnehlatha
Tw: caste based violence & brutal murder.
Snehalatha, a dalit teenage girl from Andhra Pradesh, who was a national hockey player was killed and burned alive by Upper-caste men due to rejection of love. pic.twitter.com/BVtFciQ0N0
— Ritesh cholera (@cholera_ritesh) December 26, 2020