Invited to discuss marriage, Telangana student killed by girlfriend's family
What's the story
In a shocking incident, a second-year engineering student was allegedly beaten to death by his girlfriend's family in Telangana's Sangareddy district. The victim, Jyothi Sravan Sai, was studying Computer Science and Engineering at St Peter's Engineering College. He lived in Qutbullapur and had been dating Sreeja, a 19-year-old from Isukabavi in Beeramguda. Sreeja's family had been opposed to the relationship and had warned the teen several times.
Relationship strain
Family's opposition leads to violent confrontation
On the day of the incident, Sreeja's parents invited Sai to their home under the pretext of discussing marriage plans. However, upon his arrival, they allegedly attacked him with a cricket bat, inflicting severe injuries including head trauma and fractures on his leg and ribs. After the attack, Sai was rushed to a private hospital in Kukatpally where he was declared dead. The Ameenpur Police have registered a murder case and recovered the cricket bat used in the crime.
Timeline
They went to school togetherÂ
According to the victim's relatives and the police, Sravan and the girl were classmates in the tenth grade at a school in Pragathi. Their friendship eventually turned into love. After school they went to different colleges but they used to see each other a lot. However, when both of their families found out about their relationship, they warned them to stop seeing each other. Sravan's parents had passed away, and he was living with his grandma and uncle.
Family
He was an orphanÂ
His mother had died by suicide when he was young and his father died years later due to an illness, per ETV Bharat. "The girl's mother called Shravan to their house, saying they wanted to discuss the marriage. Once he was there, the family members confined him in their house on Tuesday afternoon until the early hours of Wednesday and thrashed him mercilessly," his uncle said. "Our child died because of this physical torture," alleged Venkateswara Rao.