A 24-year-old man was arrested on Saturday in Telangana’s Medchal-Malkagiri district on charges of injecting his HIV-infected blood into a 24-year-old woman after her family called off their marriage upon learning of his HIV infection, police said.
According to Pocharam IT Corridor Police Inspector Bedada Raju, the incident took place in Ghatkesar town on March 11 when the accused went to the woman’s house with a syringe containing his blood and forcefully injected her.
Quoting the complaint filed by the woman’s father, the inspector said that the father offered to marry his daughter to the accused, who is also a relative of theirs. “However, since the accused’s parents were HIV positive, it was feared that the accused would also be HIV positive,” Raju said.
Six months ago, the woman’s father had the accused subjected to an HIV test at a laboratory in Uppal. “The test results showed that the accused was HIV positive. As a result, the woman’s family canceled the proposed marriage,” the inspector said.
On March 11, when the woman was alone at home, the accused went to her house with a syringe containing his blood and forcefully injected it into her before fleeing. The inspector added, “The family then transferred her to a private hospital in Uppal. The woman told her parents that the accused had forcibly injected her with a syringe containing his blood in an attempt to force her to marry him.”
Two days later, the family filed a complaint with the Pocharam IT Corridor police. “Based on the complaint, we launched a manhunt for the accused and arrested him on Saturday,” Raju said.
The police registered a case under Section 109 (attempt to murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against the accused and produced him before a local court, which remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days.
“The woman was then transferred to Gandhi Hospital for further treatment and medical evaluation. The investigation is still ongoing,” the inspector said.
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