post-mortem reveals woman strangled to death, in-laws arrested
Ghaziabad, June 13 -- Three members of a family were arrested on charges of killing a 25-year-old woman, stuffing her body into a suitcase, and dumping it near Loni Border in Ghaziabad in the early hours of Tuesday.
Police said the suspects - a 52-year-old man and his two sons - carried the suitcase on a motorcycle for nearly 17km before discarding it, and were tracked down after officers scanned footage from over 500 CCTV cameras. The body was found around 7.45am on Tuesday, near the Behta Hazipur-Bandhala Road, packed inside a suitcase. No identity documents were found with the body. Police circulated photos and pamphlets to help identify the victim.
On Wednesday, a post-mortem report revealed that the woman had died of strangulation. Later that day, the woman was identified by her first name as Kavita, originally from Punjab, who had married Saurabh Singh, 22, four years ago. The couple lived with his seven-member family in Ambika Vihar, Delhi.
The accused were identified as Harvir Singh, 52, and his sons Sumit Singh, 22, and Guddu Singh, 18. According to deputy commissioner of police (rural) Surendra Nath Tiwari, Kavita had an argument on June 7 with her sister-in-law, Shivani Singh. On June 9, she allegedly assaulted Shivani's one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, prompting a confrontation with her brother-in-law, Sumit.
"Sumit pushed her onto the bed and strangled her with a scarf, while smothering her face with a bedsheet. Harvir held her legs as she resisted," said Tiwari.
Saurabh, who had recently taken up work at a brick kiln, had left home a week before the incident....
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