Source: The Print
Police have so far arrested the brother and uncle of the Muslim woman, and are in pursuit of three more accused — all family members of the woman.
ANUSHA RAVI SOOD 26 October, 2021 8:59 am IST
Vijayapura: Shantavva Nimbargi’s loud cries echoed around her tiny tin hut at Balaganur village of Sindagi taluk in Karnataka’s Vijayapura district Monday, after she finally buried her 34-year-old son Ravi Nimbargi, who had been murdered last Thursday.
Ravi’s killing is the latest hate crime over an interfaith relationship in Karnataka, after Arbaz Aftab Mullah, a Muslim youth from Belagavi, was allegedly killed over his relationship with a Hindu woman in late September.
Ravi was in love with a Muslim woman, whose brother and uncle (who is also her brother-in-law) have been arrested for the murder. The local police are in pursuit of three more accused in the case — all family members of the woman.
“Ravi was the smartest of my three sons,” Shantavva, 65, told ThePrint.
Ravi held a diploma from an Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Sindagi. His elder brother Basavaraj and younger brother
Sitting outside their hut, surrounded by their five-acre farm where they grow tur (dal), cotton and sugarcane, Ravi’s family members said they neither had a copy of the FIR nor the names of those arrested for his murder.
“He worked in Bengaluru for five years and then took up a job at a sugarcane factory in Vijayapura. He quit that job and came back home only nine months ago,” a teary-eyed Basavaraj Nimbargi told ThePrint.
Ravi, who had stepped out of the house to buy groceries Thursday evening, never returned. His body was found in a well Sunday.
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