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A Hindu girl in Karnataka's Hubballi was assaulted by her Muslim friend for trying to end their relationship after the Neha Hiremath murder case.

Hiremath stated that it is an elaborate conspiracy to target some bright girls of certain families and systematically stalk them, trying to trap them in love affairs, just as they showed in the movie ‘The Kerala Story’.

Niranjan Hiremath added that the killer Fayaz, after getting rejected by Neha, had continued stalking her. Neha's every movement was followed and he had engaged a group of people to know all the details like the timings of coming to college, the gates she used to enter through, the classes she attended, and the places she visited.

“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.

When the news of the attack spread, members of the Hindu community gathered outside the hospital and demanded justice for Umesh. They also sought the immediate arrest of the perpetrators.

JP Nadda accused the Congress party of indulging in "appeasement politics" and stated that the voters will punish them.

Hubballi-Dharawad police arrested two men identified as Sadiq Imam Saab Tadakoda and Adil for justifying Fayaz stabbing Neha to death in Hubballi

A police official informed, “The killers entered the room from the first floor and killed Parashuram, Lakshmi and Akanksha. Hearing a loud noise, Karthik went to the first floor to check and was also killed.”

The accused’s mother Mamtaz alleged that there is no ‘Love Jihad’ angle in this murder case. She added, “Fayaz was under depression. He was sitting at home for one and a half years.”