Gujarat: Interfaith Love Meets Tragic End As Man Beaten To Death By Wife's Relatives, 6 Arrested

Yagnik Dudhrejiya, the identified victim was allegedly assaulted with sticks and axes by the accused while he was sitting at a place in the Shedhakhai village.

Dwarka News: A 24-year-old man from Devbhumi Dwarka district of Gujarat was allegedly beaten to death on Saturday by the relatives of his wife, who disapproved of her interfaith marriage. After the escalation of the tension, the police reported on Monday that 6 people were arrested in this incident. Yagnik Dudhrejiya, the identified victim was allegedly assaulted with sticks and axes by the accused while he was sitting at a place in the Shedhakhai village at 6.45 am. Soon after the attack, Dhudhrejiya was carried to a government hospital in Jamnagar city, where he was declared dead, reported 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 (SI) of the Bhanvad police station, reported on Monday, according to Indian Express.

Mauru reported that approximately a month and a half ago, Dhudhrejiya and his spouse had a newborn daughter. Still, the family of the woman continued to threaten her.

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Following the attack, 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) based on a complaint filed by Dhudhrejiya’s mother Nirmala, IE's report stated.

“We have arrested six men. They include the victim’s brother-in-law and the woman’s uncle. One juvenile has also been detained and he would be produced before the Juvenile Justice Board,” Maru said, as quoted by the report.

In the statement, he also added that police would be bringing the 6 arrested men to court and seek their remand later on Monday.

According to the SI, after the incident, police officers were stationed in the village of Shedhakhai. “However, there has been no further violence in the village, and the situation is under control,” said Maru, as per the report.