Will live and die with you: Wife of Dalit man murdered by her Muslim family recalls husband's words
India Today
The wife of the Dalit man who was murdered by her Muslim relatives in a suspected case of honour killing in Hyderabad remembered what her husband told her. She said her husband said he was ready 'to die'.
The wife of 25-year-old Nagaraju, a Dalit man who was killed in a suspected case of honour killing in Hyderabad, said her husband told her that he would 'live and die' with her and was 'ready to die' when she warned him that her brothers were aggressive and something could happen if they got married.
Nagaraju's wife Syed Ashrin Sultana aka Pallavi said, "From months before our wedding, I tried to convince him to get married to someone else as I did not want any threat to his life because of me. Later, when my family got to know about us, they had threatened to kill him when he was at work."
She also lamented that nobody came to the rescue of her husband even as she begged for help. She said, "Had the onlookers helped, my husband would have been alive today. It's not only about us, people should come to help whenever such a crime takes place anywhere in the world."
She said, "The attack continued for 15-20 minutes, but nobody helped."
