Man Arrested for Injecting HIV Blood into Relative After Rejection

In Hyderabad's Pocharam IT Corridor area, a 24-year-old man was arrested on charges of attempted murder after allegedly injecting his own HIV-positive blood into a 24-year-old female relative who had refused his marriage proposal due to his medical condition. The incident occurred on March 11 at the woman's residence in Annojiguda, where she was home alone.

Police from the Pocharam station said the man, a private employee in the IT sector, entered the apartment around 5 p.m. and, without warning, used a syringe to inject blood he had drawn from himself into her forearm. According to investigators, he purchased the syringe from a nearby medical shop earlier that day as part of a premeditated plan. After the injection, the man reportedly told the woman she had been exposed to HIV and then fled the scene.

The woman did not immediately inform her family, but she soon experienced severe pain, swelling, and a fever at the injection site. The following day, her condition worsened, with the skin around the wound darkening and signs of infection appearing. On March 13, her family took her to a hospital in Uppal for treatment. During the examination, doctors noticed the unusual injury and...