Kolhapur man ‘pushes’ girlfriend into 1,000ft valley after family fixes her marriage

KOLHAPUR: A family’s decision to get their daughter married elsewhere allegedly led to the murder of a 23-year-old engineering student, whose boyfriend is accused of pushing her into a nearly 1,000ft-deep valley in Kolhapur district.Tarrannum Naik, a third-year engineering student from Gargoti, was found dead in the valley below Naikwadi waterfall in Bhudargad taluka.Her boyfriend, Sripad Vadar, 25, was arrested on Sunday after police found inconsistencies in his account of the circumstances leading to her death.Tarrannum’s marriage had been fixed for November 12, locals said. Vadar, who works with his brother, a local contractor, allegedly told police that he and Tarrannum had been in a relationship for five-and-a-half years and had decided to die by suicide together after her family arranged her marriage to another man.The case surfaced on Saturday morning when Vadar approached a police station and reported that Tarrannum had fallen into the valley from a cliff.