Thomas (Special correspondent)
A 23-year-old Dalit girl, Daneshwari, was allegedly burnt to death by her boyfriend Shivakumar in Bengaluru’s Electronic City.
The accused has been identified as, Shivakumar,
The incident took place on Tuesday,March 15, after which Da
neshwari was being treated at a local hospital.After 2 days of suffering,she succumbed to her burn injuries on Thursday.Daneshwari was a resident of BTM Layout, where she was doing a course.
Senior officer told reporters,Hours after the incident, the Electronic city police inspector,Anil Kumar HD and team on Saturday arrested Shivakumar Hirehala,24,a friend of Dalit engineering graduate Daneshwari,who on Friday succumbed to burn injuries she had sustained on March 15.
Shiva Kumar was arrested near his residence where he had visited.The accused had escaped from the hospital after admitting the victim and went missing.
A police team launched a manhunt and trailed before he was arrested near his residence on Saturday evening,a police officer,said .
Daneshwari’s cousin who lodged a complaint of murder against him has also given a complaint under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, sources said.
An FIR has been registered and Shivakumar has been booked under Section 302 of Indian Penal Code for murder and SC-ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, police officials said.
Shivakumar Hirehala, a Lingayat and Daneshwari, a Dalit,were classmates during their engineering course in Vijayapura and were reportedly in love.
Her family has claimed that he refused to marry her as his parents were opposed to the marriage because of her caste.
In their complaint to the police, her family members alleged that Shivakumar doused her.
The accused has been taken into custody to ascertain the reason behind the incident. The incident was not clear and there are many lose ends which needs to be probed, a police officer said .
