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SC woman killed using butcher’s knife by Muslim boyfriend and his brother; no outrage, no politics, just deafening silence

Balaji Subramanian
Love Jihad Bihar

In another case that went largely unnoticed by the mainstream media, a 24 year old Scheduled Caste women was butchered to death by her Muslim boyfriend Syed Mustafa and his brother Jameel, on the intervening night of October 17 and 18. 

The victim K Radhika, a second-year student of Bachelors of Law degree from the Mahatma Gandhi Law College had left her house on October 17 at around 2:30 PM saying that she was going to meet Mustafa ‘to discuss her love matter’. The FIR registered stated that Radhika and Mustafa had been seeing each other for 5 months.

Radhika had gone to Mustafa’s house at around midnight on October 17 after he had stopped taking her calls and avoided meeting her. She had confronted him about the marriage promises that the latter had made. 

An altercation had broken out between Radhika and Mustafa that reportedly lasted till 4 AM in the morning. Later, Syed Mustafa and his brother Jameel who works as a part-time butcher killed her using a butcher’s knife. 

Radhika was a resident of Asifnagar area of Hyderabad. Her mother is reportedly a Muslim by birth while her father Raj Kumar is said to be a Hindu by birth. However, the family is said to be practicing Christians now. Mustafa’s house located in Yakutpura in Muslim-populated old Hyderabad. 

CCTV footages had shown a burqa clad woman entering Mustafa’s house around 12 AM. The woman’s body was found by the police at Mustafa’s house at around 6 am on October 18. Her throat was found to be slit. 

A case has been registered against the accused under Sections 302 (murder) and Sections 417 and 420 for cheating. They have also been slapped with charges under SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act as the family had SC certificates. 

Many netizens have pointed out the scanty coverage of this incident in comparison with the Hathras case in which a Scheduled Caste girl was raped and killed by four men belonging to the Thakur community. 

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