UP woman was raped, burnt alive by kin: Probe

Lucknow | Sunday | 15th July, 2018

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Police said the victim was sleeping when her attackers barged into her house and brutalised her.Later, they dragged her to a nearby temple and burnt her alive. She might have tried but due to congestion, her call was not completed. gangraped and later burnt alive a woman +BAREILLY: All the accused people who allegedly(35) in the yagyashala of a temple near her house in UP’s Sambhal district on Saturday, were her relatives.“During the investigation, it was revealed that one of the five accused, Mahaveer, is a distant cousin of the victim’s husband, while the other four are also relatives. Besides, forensic tests are being conducted to ascertain if she was raped before she was set ablaze,” the ADG said.The ghastly crime was committed in a village under Rajpura police station in the early hours of Saturday. No call on dial 100 was made..