"Wasted Time Asking For Help": Hyderabad Woman On Husband's Public Murder

Sulthana now feels she wasted precious seconds asking for help, which never came.

Her husband was beaten to death on a busy road in Hyderabad and a crowd of witnesses couldn't save him, even though she begged for help. Syed Ashrin Sulthana said the killers were her brother and relatives.

Sulthana's first visit to her husband B Nagaraju's home happened to be after his death. Still dazed with grief, she held on to a portrait of Nagaraju as she spoke to NDTV.

"My husband and I were going on a bike. He slowed down a little to cross the road, suddenly two bikes came. I didn't realise my brother was on one of them. They pushed my husband, he fell. They started hitting him with rods. When I tried to save him, my brother's friends pushed me. I begged for help but people took videos," Sulthana, 21, said.

It was all over within moments, but she feels there was enough time for people on the road to intervene and stop the attack.