A person was arrested for allegedly strangulating his 19-year-old daughter to dying over her relationship with a person from a scheduled tribe, in Kolar district, police mentioned on Monday, including that this was a case of hate crime.

The arrest passed off after the sufferer’s physique was exhumed within the presence of Kolara tehsildar Harshawardhan, and despatched for an post-mortem report on August 27. According to the police, the sufferer has been recognized as Ramya and the accused, her father as Venkatesh Gowda.

Ramya, belonging to the Vokkaliga neighborhood, was in a romantic relationship with a younger man from the ST Nayak neighborhood. The relationship lasted for over three years regardless of makes an attempt by her father to dissuade her from pursuing the connection, police mentioned.

On August 25, whereas Ramya was on a telephone dialog together with her accomplice round 2.30 pm , Venkatesh Gowda intervened with information of a proposed organized marriage. Ramya vehemently opposed the proposal and confronted her household. As the confrontation escalated after which her father killed her by suffocating her by urgent his foot in opposition to her neck, police mentioned.

Following her dying, Ramya’s physique was swiftly buried in secret, with the assistance of relations and kinfolk, together with Venkatesh Gowda’s elder brother Mohan Gowda, Chaude Gowda, and brother-in-law Anjaneyareddy, police mentioned.

However, after native residents grew suspicious, the police have been tipped off. A discreet investigation was initiated to uncover the dying and later an FIR was filed, resulting in the arrest of 4 people, together with Gowda, together with alleged accomplices concerned within the homicide.

“We received a tip from a villager about the incident, and soon we summoned the prime accused, Venkatesh Gowda, to the police station,” Kolara rural police inspector B Lokesh mentioned. He acknowledged that in our interrogation concerning the disappearance of his daughter Ramya, he confessed to the crime. “We have booked him and three others under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code,” Lokesh added.