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Last updated: July 22, 2023, at 10:19 PM IST
DK Prajapati, the officer in charge of Katkamdagh Police Station, said the body has been sent for an autopsy. (Representative image – Shutterstock)
They said the body of the 18-year-old, who was married on June 13, was found in the bathroom of her home in Katkmadag Police District on Friday.
Police said on Saturday that a newly married woman was found dead in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand state along with her family claiming that her in-laws had killed her over dowry.
They said the body of the 18-year-old woman, who was married on June 13, was found in the bathroom of her home in Catkamdagh district on Friday.
Police said they arrested her husband, but that his two brothers and sister-in-law who allegedly brutalized her escaped.
In the police complaint, the victim’s father alleged that she was repeatedly tortured by her in-laws.
Police said the woman was allegedly killed by her husband and other members of his family, and the body was hung in the bathroom to make it look like a suicide.
DK Prajapati, the officer in charge of Katkamdagh Police Station, said the body has been sent for an autopsy.
He said an investigation is underway.
(This story was not edited by the News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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