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Mysuru: A 22-year-old man pushed his sister into a lake at Marur village of Hunsur taluk on Tuesday night for reportedly being in a relationship with a Muslim boy and then pushed his mother, too, into the lake when she came to her daughter’s rescue, killing both of them.
The bodies of Anitha (40) and her daughter Dhanushri (19), a B.Com student at a college in Hunsur, were retrieved on Wednesday morning.
According to a complaint by Anitha’s husband Sathish, a farmer of Hirikyathanahalli, the suspect Nithin, a high school dropout working as a daily wager, took his mother and sister on a mobike on the pretext of seeing an ailing relative on Tuesday evening.
He stopped the vehicle near the lake at Marur and pushed his sister into it. When Dhanushri tried to save herself, he pushed her back into the lake.
When his mother tried to save Dhanushri, he pushed her also into the lake. Nithin then went home and told his father about the incident and took him to the crime scene around 10 pm, the police said.
Sathish said Dhanushri was in love with a Muslim boy but had assured her parents she would call off the relationship on the family’s advice.
Nithin thought they had ended their relationship but after learning that they stayed in touch over phone, her took her and his mother to the lake and drowned them, Hunsur sub-division DySP Gopal Krishna DySP said.
Nithin was asked to stay away from home as he fought with his sister over the issue frequently.
Nithin has been arrested. The bodies will be handed over to the relatives after post-mortem.