2 held for murder over interfaith love

Jyothi Yarraji broke the national record for women’s 100m hurdles for the third time in two weeks at the Harry Schulting Games 2022 in Vught, the Netherlands. Jyothi, 22, clocked 13.04 seconds under a headwind speed of +1.4m/s in the heats to better her own earlier record of 13.11 seconds she had clocked while winning the event at the Loughborough International Athletics Meet in the United Kingdom on Sunday. The Andhra Pradesh athlete, who trains under James Hillier at Reliance Foundation Odisha Athletics High Performance Centre in Bhubaneswar, had broken the national record for the first time on May 11 at the Cyprus International Meet in Limassol, clocking 13.23 seconds to better Anuradha Biswal’s national mark of 13.38, which had stood since 2002.

Police in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi have arrested two 19-year-old men for killing a man who was in an interfaith relationship with one of the accused’s sister, officials said on Thursday. The victim, identified as Vijaya Kamble (25), was stabbed and attacked with an iron rod in Wadi town on Monday night, said police. Kalaburagi superintendent of police Isha Pant identified the accused as Shahabuddin (19) and Nawaz (19). “Kamble was in a relationship with Shahabuddin’s older sister. The family had come to know about the relationship, and since it was an interfaith relationship, there was resentment,” said Pant. After the incident came to light, security has been bolstered in the district, police said, especially in sensitive areas in Wadi town, where additional forces have been deployed. Kamble is the third person to be killed over an interfaith relationship in Karnataka this past year.