Honour killing: Father, brother held for strangling woman in UP village for living in with lover
Muzaffarnagar (PTI): Police have arrested the father and brother of the 23-year-old woman whose half-burnt body was found in a forest here, an officer said on Tuesday.
He claimed that Saraswati Maliyan, who was found in a charred state on June 3, was a victim of honour killing .
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sanjay Kumar told reporters that Saraswati's 55-year-old father, Rajvir Singh, and her 24-year-old brother, Sumit Kumar, were nabbed in connection with her death from Jadvad village on Sunday evening.
"During the investigation, both accused confessed to strangling Saraswati to death. They claimed that she had tarnished the family's reputation with her relationship choices," the officer said.
The two said they killed her on May 29 and set her body on fire with petrol in the forest near a canal.
According to police, Saraswati had married twice — once in 2019 and again in 2022 — but both marriages ended. She later returned to her lover against the wishes of her family.
Police have booked Rajvir Singh and Sumit Kumar under BNS sections 103 (murder) and 238 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and have sent them to jail.
Saraswati, an employee of an e-commerce firm in Gurugram, had been living in with a man from her village, police said.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
