It is the 13th day since Neha Hiremath, 23, was killed in Karnataka’s Hubballi. “He said he was unable to bear this ‘insult’ and killed her,” Sukumar says, adding that his statement needed corroboration. “But Fayaz fought with him saying they were in love and wanted to get married.” Neha’s parents refute this story. At KLE Technological University, people say …
The accused in the murder case of Neha Hiremath, daughter of Niranjan Hiremath, a Congress councilor in the Hubballi Dharwad Municipal Corporation was sent to a 6-day Criminal Investigation Department custody. READ | BJP Mahila Morcha holds candlelight vigil in Bengaluru condemning Hubballi murder The police arrested Fayaz within hours of the incident and produced him before a magistrate, who …
Niranjan Hiremath, the father of deceased Neha Hiremath, who was stabbed to death by her former classmate Fayaz last week in Hubbali, has stated to media that his daughter was forced to convert her religion, and she refused. As per reports, Congress leader Niranjan Hiremath told before media that Fayaz killed Neha because she had refused to convert to Islam. …
Dharwad, Muslim men and women on Monday came out in large numbers and staged a demonstration, denouncing the accused from their own community, Fayaz Khondunaik, in the murder of college student Neha Hiremath and publicly stood by the Hindu victim's family. As the BJP has also been staging demonstrations in the city as part of its statewide protest against the …
Niranjan Hiremath, the father of Neha Hiremath who was murdered in Karnataka's Hubballi, demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI alleging that the police were trying to “divert” the case. Reacting to Niranjan Hiremath's qualms, Bharatiya Janata Party IT cell head Amit Malviya blamed the Congress government in Karnataka for being “soft and slow” on the …
On 20th April, Hubballi-Dharawad police arrested two men identified as Sadiq Imam Saab Tadakoda and Adil, both residents of Dharwad, for social media posts justifying Fayaz stabbing his former classmate Neha to death in Hubballi. Several posts with captions such as “Justice For Love” and “Justice For True Love” have gone viral on social media justifying Fayaz’s actions. In a …
The murder of the daughter of a Congress councillor in Hubballi on her college campus for allegedly rejecting a man's marriage proposal, has triggered a political row in poll-bound Karnataka. While the ruling Congress claimed “a personal angle”, the Opposition BJP suspects that the motivation behind the murder was "love jihad". Neha Hiremath, a first-year MCA student in BVB College, …
The parents of 23-year-old Fayaz, the accused in the Neha Hiremath murder case that happened in Hubballi on Thursday, have apologised to the victim's family after widespread protests and public outrage in the southern state of Karnataka. She was like my daughter.” Fayaz was arrested shortly after he allegedly killed the daughter of a Congress councillor, Neha Hiremath inside a …
A 24-year-old woman, the daughter of a Congress corporator, was stabbed to death allegedly by her acquaintance inside the BVB College campus at Hubballi in Karnataka, police said, adding the accused has been arrested. The accused went inside the college campus with a knife and wearing a mask and stabbed the woman multiple times in chest and neck. The accused, …
