AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has condemned the suspected honour killing of a Dalit man by the household of his Muslim spouse in Hyderabad, deploring the act of homicide as “the worst crime in Islam”.

B Nagaraju, 25, was crushed and stabbed to dying by his spouse’s brother and an confederate in the midst of a busy road in Saroornagar, Hyderabad earlier this week. The deceased’s household has alleged that he was killed as a result of the girl’s household was against their interfaith marriage.

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi mentioned the accused had been swiftly arrested however sure events with vested pursuits try to present the incident a “completely different color”.

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“The homicide of Nagaraju in Hyderbad is towards Islam. The lady married him of her personal will and the regulation upholds this. Her brother had no proper to kill her husband. It's a legal act and the worst crime as per Islam,” he mentioned, including that the accused ought to be punished.

Hyderabad mein Nagraju ka qatl, Islam ke khilaaf hai. Ladki ne apni pasand se shaadi ki thi, Kanoon iski ijazat deta hai. Islam mein qatl sabse ghinona jurm haipic.twitter.com/vI4beXXWPZ

— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) May 7, 2022

The vicious homicide of Nagaraju occurred on Wednesday night, when he was travelling on a motorcycle together with his spouse and was confronted by his spouse's brother Syed Mobin Ahmed and his confederate, Mohammed Masood Ahmed.

The 2 assailants stopped the couple on the highway and attacked the person in full public view with an iron rod earlier than stabbing him with a knife, killing him on the spot, police mentioned.