In a sensational killing in Etah, a man allegedly strangled his daughter to death as she was against his illicit affair with another woman. The accused also burnt the body to hide his crime and later absconded.
Reports said Brajwasi, a resident of Ganeshpur village under Rijor police station area, had an extra-marital affair. The woman in question visited Brajwasi’s house and indulged in an illicit relationship with him. When his family members objected, Brajwasi assaulted and threatened them.
Brajwasi’s daughter Neelu asked her father to end his extra-marital relationship and threatened to lodge a police complaint if she saw the woman in the house again. She also made a video clip as evidence.
In the wee hours of Monday, Neelu saw her father in a compromising position with the same woman. As she confronted her father, the latter first thrashed her and then strangled her to death. He later hanged the body from a tree outside the house to make it look like a case of suicide.
In the meantime, his wife Shakuntala and son also came out and saw the body. However, Brajwasi locked them in a room and later burnt the body in a bid to conceal his crime. He then absconded with his paramour and another woman.
Brajwasi’s wife somehow informed police and narrated the entire incident. Local police registered a case in this regard. The cops collected the remains of the body and sent the same for a DNA test. They also launched a manhunt for the accused and his paramour.
CO Irfan Nasir Khan said that Shakuntala accused her husband and two women of killing her daughter.
Meanwhile, two teenage girls poisoned themselves to death after being scolded by their brother in a village in Bareilly. The incident took place on Monday night in Nawabganj police station area. The two girls, who were cousins, were aged 15 and 16.
They bought poison from a shop in the neighbouring village after they were scolded by their brother. Before they came home and consumed it, they had informed their family members about it, according to Bareilly SP (Rural) Rajkumar Aggarwal. They were rushed to a hospital but one of them died on the way. The other one breathed her last at the hospital on Monday night. The tehsildar of the region recorded the statement of the girl while she was in the hospital, the SP said.