Teen bride forced to watch as ‘groom is dragged from temple to have throat slit by her family’

A BRIDEGROOM who had eloped with a runaway teenage girl was dragged out of the temple where he was getting married and had his throat cut in the street before a huge boulder was used to crush his head.

Horrified bride Hastapuram Mounika, 18, watched as her parents and relatives dragged victim Mahankali Anil out of a Hindu temple to his death in Thimmapur, central India.

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Witnesses described how his throat was slit and then his head and body were crushed with boulders.

Water worker Anil, 22, and Hastapuram had been dating each other for a year but her parents had tried to keep the couple apart.

An earlier elopement had failed when her parents told police and priests their daughter was under 18 and a minor.

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Hastapuram had been sent away to study so she would not see Anil.

But when she returned, they restarted their romance and decided to run away again, local media has reported.

When her parents realised she was about to wed Anil at the local Hindu temple, they rushed there to confront him.

Local Police Commissioner VB Kamalasan Reddy said: "A number of suspects have been arrested."

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