Meerut, Feb. 20 -- A man killed his younger sister in Matavali Patti Jaggu village, in Sambhal district, for loving and living with a man of a different community, on Thursday night.

In what is being seen as a hate crime, Roop Jahan, 19, was allegedly strangled with a scarf by her elder brother Jaan-e-Alam. Following the crime, the accused called the police and confessed to the crime.

According to Krishan Kumar Bishnoi, superintendent of police, Sambhal, the accused has been arrested and investigators are examining whether others were involved in the incident or its planning.

Police said Roop Jahan had been in a relationship for the past two years with a young man from another community in the same village. When her family learned abou...