Man burns daughter to death in public in MP

  • | Saturday | 21st July, 2018

"We found the burnt body of the girl near her house. Sunderlal has been arrested, he added .The DSP isn't ready to call it an honour killing yet. Villagers, however, said Laxmi was going to marry Rajkumar, who is from a different caste. The body was sent for post-mortem," DSP Shashikant Shreyam told TOI. He allegedly poured kerosene on her and set her on fire.

INDORE: In a suspected case of honour killing, a man burnt alive his 19-year-old daughter on Friday in front of scores of horrified onlookers on a street in Khandwa 's Chainpur Sarkar village when she was on her way to court to marry against the wishes of her family.Laxmi Bai had gone home to collect her marksheet as proof of age when her father, Sunderlal Jadhav, caught her, police said. He allegedly poured kerosene on her and set her on fire."We found the burnt body of the girl near her house. The body was sent for post-mortem," DSP Shashikant Shreyam told TOI. Sunderlal has been arrested, he added .The DSP isn't ready to call it an honour killing yet. Villagers, however, said Laxmi was going to marry Rajkumar, who is from a different caste. Her family forbade her from having any relationship with him but she defied them.Rajkumar said: "She went home at 7am and was coming to me when Sunderlal dragged her away." Later, Sunderlal's brother Rajendra was also detained .

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