bhubaneswar a teenaged girl was strangulated to death allegedly by her father for marrying a boy from a different caste in balangir district the girls plight did not end with her death the government railway police grp which recovered the body handed over to the local civic body authorities which in turn threw it in a dump yard some local volunteers retrieved the girls body from the jaws of stray dogs and performed the last rites on friday four days after she was murdered the deceased has been identified as geeta tanla 17 of khunt samalei village under patnagarh police limits she had married narendra tandi of the same village the accused kailash tanla was on the run after strangulating his daughter near balangir railway station we have registered a case on the basis of complaint lodged by the deceaseds grandmother said grp inspector k n thelko according to the grp the girl fell in love with a boy hailing from other caste while working at a brick kiln in vijayawada two years ago both the families didnt approve of their relationship however the duo tied the knot going against their families the boy then convinced his family members and took geeta home after some days the boy came under pressure of his parents and decided to desert her helpless she returned to her parents house seeing geeta her angry father threatened to kill hersources said geetas grandmother nen came to her rescue and went to patnagarh police station where police advised her to hide her granddaughter geeta stayed some days with her at an undisclosed location but her father came to know about it and persuaded them to return on the way to their village kailash strangulated her and fled we have launched a manhunt to nab him said thelko despite repeated attempts the local civic body authorities couldnt be contacted the municipality dumper brought the body and dumped it it is distressing that the civic body dumping a body without funeral said lalit nayak the social worker who took initiative of cremating the body