Mysore: A 27-year-old upper caste woman college lecturer was strangulated to death at her residence here by her brother for marrying a man belonging to a lower caste, police said on Wednesday.
The brother is absconding and a search is on to nab him, they said.
The incident came to light after her room mate found her body on her return from Kochi.
The woman's husband, a Dalit, said he knew her for seven years and they got married at the sub-registrar's office in Mysore on November 23. "We tried in vain to convince our family to perform a marriage as per Hindu traditions," he told reporters.
The man, an assistant physical education director at Tumkur University, said they were living separately. "I stay in Tumkur while my wife, who worked in Chamarajanagar, lived in Mysore. I came to know about the murder from her friend."
Police said the brother, a city resident since 2009 came to her home at around 11 pm last night in an inebriated state, locked her inside a room and berated her over the marriage, saying the family were on the lookout for an alliance for her and later strangulated her.
Her grandmother, who was staying with her, had gone to bed in another room by the time he left about three hours later, they said.
Police said the woman had also told her grandmother and her family about her love for the man.
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