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Youth held for `killing' Intermediate student

Special Correspondent

TIRUPATI: A youth was arrested for allegedly killing Amala, an Intermediate final year student. The incident is assuming casteist dimensions as the deceased happens to be a Dalit.

The police who zeroed in on the girl's boyfriend -- Vasudeva Reddy -- within hours of fishing out the body dumped in a drain with her throat slit, said that the accused confessed to having committed the offence as she started `pestering' him for marriage.

The Andhra Pradesh Dalita Hakkula Porata Samithi, the student wings of the Left parties -- SFI and AISF -- condemned the outrage on a Dalit student and have sought maximum punishment to the accused so that it serves as a warning to others.

The Dalit Rights body in a statement said the cruel murder smacked of the continued hegemonic attitude of the upper castes over the socially oppressed classes.

It complemented the police for its swift action and demanded that case be booked against the accused under the `Prevention of atrocities on ST/ STs Act'.

The AISF and the SFI, which took out a procession from the SPW Junior College where the victim was a student, expressed concern over the spurt in eve-teasing especially in college zones and wanted the police to increase patrolling in vulnerable areas.

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