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Mahankali Anil, 22, was wrestled out the Hindu temple to his savage death this week.

Witnesses described how his throat was slit and then his head and body were crushed with boulders as horrified bride Hastapuram Mounika, 18, was forced to watch.

The couple, from Thimmapur, central India, had been dating each other for a year but her parents had tried to pull them apart.

The lovers had tried to elope earlier this year but her mum and dad told police their daughter was under 18 and a minor.

Hastapuram was then sent away to study so she would not see her boyfriend.

But when she returned, she rekindled her romance with the water worker and they decided to run away again.

Local police commissioner VB Kamalasan Reddy said: "A number of suspects have been arrested."

In June, a husband killed his newlywed wife after "she forgot to charge his phone" in Russia.