The Plant Site police here arrested three persons, including two siblings of a deceased girl on Monday, in connection with a suspected case of honor killing here and forwarded them to court.
Police had received a FIR alleging that Amrita Singh (27), daughter of Anant Singh of Park Hotel lane under Plant site police station of the city, was murdered by her family members as she eloped with one Nasim Khan (32), a resident of lal Building area here.
According to Nasim, Arbind, brother -in -law of the deceased and his wife Sushila, had called him and Amrita to Rourkela for a conciliation with family and the duo had reached Rourkela on May 1. However, on May 9 night, Nasim was told over phone that Amrita was dead. And by the time Nasim reached Rourkela, Amrita’s body had been cremated.
The police had registered a case and started a probe. The police had seized bones, ash and other particles from the cremation site and sent them to State forensic laboratory for test. On Monday, the police arrested the trio, identified as Ranjan Singh, Sandip Singh (brothers of the deceased Amrita) and Arbind Singh (brother-in-law of the deceased).
During interrogation, the police could know that Amrita’s brothers, Ranjan and Sandip and her brother-in-law Arbind had strangled her to death on May 9 night and had burnt her body on May 10 at Vedvyas crematorium.