Man Puts Up Posters Of Woman He 'Loved' To Get Her Wedding Cancelled
A man in Telangana, India, was arrested after distributing defamatory posters about a woman to prevent her arranged marriage. The accused, who claimed to have been in love with the woman, faces charges including harassment and defamation.
Why it matters
This incident highlights issues regarding gender-based harassment, stalking, and the misuse of personal information to exert control over women's life choices.
Dodla Venkatesh, a travel agency operator from Telangana loved a woman. But her family arranged her marriage with a man from another village. Upset with it, the man thought that if the woman cannot be his partner, then she shouldn't marry anyone else. To break her marriage, the man hatched a plan. He put up defamtory posters, claiming a relationship with her, across villages.The man, along with five others, has been arrested by Siddipet police.The accused pasted the posters at various locations in Tangalapalli village of Rajanna-Sircilla district and Ensanpally village of Siddipet district on the night of July 7.According to police, the prime accused, 29-year-old Dodla Venkatesh from Peddagundavelli village of Dubbak mandal, had been in love with the woman from Ensanpally for some time.''After her family fixed her marriage with a man from Tangalapalli village, he allegedly became upset and hatched a plan to damage her reputation and stop…
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