Having relations with a youth proved costly to a 22-year-old woman in Muzaffarnagar as his father allegedly drugged and later threw her into a canal to kill her.
This sensational fact was brought to the knowledge of the local police by the victim’s lover. Subsequently, the cops arrested the woman’s father, Virpal, and one another person on Thursday and during interrogation, the father confessed to have killed his daughter.
The incident took place in Parai village on Wednesday. The victim’s father, Virpal, and another person were arrested on the basis of a complaint filed by 23-year-old Arjun, who was in a relationship with the woman, Chapar police station in-charge H Singh said.
During interrogation, Virpal admitted that he gave his daughter an intoxicant and threw her into the canal for “tarnishing the family’s name”, Singh said.
The body of the woman is yet to be recovered.
Meanwhile, in Aligarh, the mutilated body of a 3-year-old girl was found in a garbage dump, with an preliminary investigation indicating that the killing was a fallout of a monetary dispute, police said on Thursday.
Two persons have been arrested in connection with the crime.
Senior Superintendent of Police in Aligarh, Akash Kulhari, said the girl went missing from Tappal township on May 31 and on June 2, the police found her mutilated body in a garbage dump near her house.
Police have arrested two persons — Zahid and Aslam — on the basis of a complaint filed by the victim’s father.
“Post-mortem examination has not found any sign of sexual assault. The report confirmed death due to strangulation,” the police officer said.
Kulhari said that in view of the gravity of the crime, proceedings have been initiated to charge the duo under the stringent National Security Act.
He said a process had also started to follow this case in a fast track court.
The victim’s father has demanded that other family members of the accused be arrested as the crime could not have been carried out without their knowledge.
He threatened that he would start a fast unto death from Friday if no further arrests were made.
Security measures at Tappal township, 50 km from the district headquarters, have been tightened as a precautionary step after tension mounted there on Wednesday.