‘Honour killing’: Girl’s body found hanging

In a suspected case of honour killing, the body of a 21-year-old girl who had eloped with her lover from Pehowa, Kurukshetra, was found hanging in a room at Laha village in Naraingarh on Friday.

The police suspected that it was not a case of suicide but of murder, and the body was hung after the killing.

DCP (rural) Nazneen Bhassen said during investigation it was found that Komal's family did not want her marriage with Sanju whose family worked as a contractor of orchards and sold fruits.

Sanju told the police that her father, brother and two other relatives had followed them and entered their orchard home, where they beat him and his brother besides two other children of his family.

Dalbir Yadav, the brother of Sanju, told the police that Sanju and Komal had come there a day earlier and wanted to get married. But her family members reached the orchard, thrashed Sanju and other members and took away Komal who might have been killed during the night.

The police have registered a case of murder.

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