A police sub-inspector posted in Jaunpur allegedly killed his daughter and later cremated the body to conceal the crime.
The killing took place in Chandauli district in the name of saving family honour but the local police took no action claiming that the matter was still under investigation.
Reports said that Ankit Yadav, a native of Alinagar in Chandauli, was in love with Priti Yadav who was preparing for her medical entrance test.
Annoyed by her affair, Priti’s parents settled her marriage with another boy in Varanasi but Priti refused to marry another boy on which her family members brutally assaulted and even threatened her with dire consequences.
Priti, however, informed Ankit about this development on November 9. Before the family members could marry her somewhere else, both the lovers went to court and entered into wedlock. They also got their marriage registered.
Later Ankit’s family called both and organised a ceremony to get them married before their relatives and neighbours on November 25. According to Ankit, his in-laws later hatched a plan and took them in confidence saying that they wanted to get their daughter married properly before their relatives and asked him to send her back.
Ankit said he allowed Priti to go back but he was shocked that soon after she reached her parent’s house, they got her killed in the name of saving the family honour. Not only this, they also cremated her body to conceal the crime.
When Ankit learnt that Priti was killed for marrying him, he lodged a report at the Alinagar police station and her father Mahendra Yadav, mother Prabhawati Devi and half-a-dozen other kin
However no action has been taken so far as Priti’s father is posted as sub-inspector in Jaunpur.