Hyderabad: Inter-caste marriage again, woman critical in sickle attack by father

Sources at Yashoda Hospital at Somajiguda, where Madhavi is admitted, said her right hand was almost hacked off, her ear chopped off, and a vein in her neck was cut. “We are preparing to perform a complicated surgery that may last over 10 hours to save her,” an official said.

While Sandeep is from the SC community, Madhavi belongs to OBC community.

Sandeep and Madhavi first met five years ago at an exam centre where they appeared for Class X exams. While their friendship blossomed into love, they recently finished undergraduate courses.

“We knew there was going to be trouble, but no one expected it to go this far,” said B Satish, Sandeep’s elder brother. “My father, who used to work in a hotel, passed away about 10 years ago… After completing my education, I also started working in a hotel and helped Sandeep complete his degree. He was working at a biryani restaurant in Moti Nagar and was earning well,” Satish said.

Sources at S R Nagar police station said that Sandeep, admitted to hospital with serious injuries on his face, had given a written complaint.

He said, he sought police protection after his marriage and their families were called to S R Nagar police station for counselling. “Her parents said that if their daughter was happy with Sandeep then they were reconciled to it… He stated in his complaint that Madhavi’s father, Manohar Chari, never threatened him. So when Chari called him for a meeting, Sandeep did not suspect anything,” an official said.

Chari had aimed for Sandeep’s neck but Madhavi deflected the attack using her hand, which was almost hacked off, police said. Police are looking for Chari who is absconding since the incident. Following Wednesday’s incident and the murder in Miryalaguda town on September 14, police in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh started received hundreds of pleas for protection from inter-caste and inter-religious couples, an official of the Telangana SC Commission said.