font size="3">Nagapattinam’s deputy police superintendent, N Murugavel, said that the two got into a heated argument over some dispute before the mother poured kerosene on the girl and later set her herself on fire too.

font size="3">A 24-year-old Dalit neighbour on Wednesday claimed that the 17-year-old was burnt alive because she wanted to marry him. He claimed that the girl had been in a relationship with him since 2016. “As her mother was against the relationship. As she would have turned 18, we planned to seek her permission to marry...” He said that the girl was burnt alive as she refused to accept her mother’s advice to end the relationship. 

span style="font-family: jameel-noori-nastaleeq;">It should be noted that in India, the incidence of death of couples who are married to caste communities and minorities is common and more than a thousand incidents are reported annually, but no more incidents are reported.