Maharashtra: Couple set on fire for inter-caste marriage, woman dead

Pune | Monday | 6th May, 2019

Summary:

Rukmini’s family, which had opposed their marriage in October last year, had been threatening to harm the couple. All this while Rukmini’s family members had been threatening to harm the couple saying they were against the intercaste marriage,” Sub-inspector Vijaykumar Bothre, who is investigating the case, said. The investigation is based on the statements given by the couple while under treatment and other family members. Her husband, Mangesh Ransigh, 23, is being treated for 50 per cent burn injuries at Sasoon General Hospital in Pune. Over opposition to their inter-caste love marriage, a family in Ahmednagar allegedly set ablaze their daughter and her husband in Ahmednagar last week in a case of honour killing..