India, Jan. 29 -- A 30-year-old Dalit man was killed allegedly by his in-laws in a suspected case of hate crime for marrying a woman against her family's wish in the Suryapet district of Telangana, police said on Tuesday, adding a manhunt has been launched to arrest the accused.

The body of Vadlakonda Krishna, a resident of Mamillagadda in the same district, was found in a canal at Pillalamarri village on Monday early morning. Based on a complaint from his father John David, the police registered a case against Krishna's father-in-law Kotla Saidulu, brothers-in-law Kotla Naveen and Kotla Vamshi, and one Bairu Mahesh, a friend of the accused brothers, a senior police officer said.

"We have registered a case under sections 103(1) (murder)...