New Delhi: Two brothers-in-law of a 16-year-old widow, who was found murdered here earlier this week, have been arrested in connection with her killing, police said on Saturday. Police also took another juvenile relative into custody.
Chinmoy Biswal, deputy commissioner of police in the south-east, told a media conference that the young widow was found unconscious with stab marks on her body on July 16, two months after her husband, Ayushman, committed suicide. She was immediately shifted to Apollo Hospital where she was declared dead.
The three accused allegedly stabbed her three to four times in front of her grandparents in their house in Badarpur area of south Delhi and fled.
“They were arrested on Friday [in] the Tughlaqabad area,” the police officer said, adding that they had accused the girl, who had eloped with Ayushman, of being responsible for his death.
After the death of her husband, the victim had gone back to her parents.
“They said many attempts to persuade her to go back to her husband’s house [were made] but she refused,” police said.
Two days prior to her death, she had departed for her maternal grandparents’ place in Badarpur, where the incident took place.
