“They were forcing her to convert. Since she didn’t agree to religious conversion, she was murdered,” Niranjan Hiremath, the Congress Councillor from Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC), said
The complainant said that caste-based slurs were used against her and that the accused told her she would have to convert to Islam since she belonged to a backward caste.
The accused offered Rs 2-4 lakh to the victim's father to keep his mouth shut. When the complainant refused to compromise, Jamiruddin and Arif abused him by using caste-related slurs.
Anshika Kesarwani locked herself in a room before hanging herself on Monday. Following this, her in-laws alerted her parents, who arrived. After busting down the door to the room, they found Anshika's body hanging.
OpIndia fact-checked this matter to discover that the fight involved two groups of Muslims and no Hindu person was involved in the matter. OpIndia also obtained a copy of an FIR registered in this case.
"My son was attacked. They broke his leg. My daughter's hand was fractured. They threw bricks at me. I was bleeding from my ears," the victim recounted.