Delhi woman killed by father after she married man from another caste

In a shocking incident reported from the national capital, A 22-year-old woman whose dead body was found in a suitcase on the Yamuna Expressway last week was allegedly killed by her father in a suspected case of hate crime after she married a man belonging to another caste.

The deceased, identified as Ayushi Yadav, is a resident of Delhi, and her parents, identified as Nitish Yadav, aged 46 and Brajbala Yadav aged 45 – have been taken into police custody.

The victim’s dead body was found on the expressway under Raya police station limits on November 18. Police said they found gunshot wounds on her chest and injury marks on her face.

According to the Mathura senior superintendent of police (SSP) Martand P Singh, Ayushi was allegedly killed by her father in their Delhi home on November 17. Both Nitish and Brajbala disposed the dead body along the expressway the following day.

As per the police, Ayushi got married to 22-year-old Chatrapal, a resident of Bharatpur, who belongs to the Gujjar community, in October 2021.

“The accused father was unhappy with his daughter as she married without his approval. Following an altercation, he shot her twice,” Singh said. He did not say anything about Chatrapal’s whereabouts.

“After the body was found by the police and it remained unclaimed, we deployed 14 teams to establish the woman’s identity. Based on evidence, we interrogated her parents. The conflicting accounts given by the accused duo raised our suspicion and led to their arrest,” he said. “The woman was a third-year BCA student. She was pursuing her graduation from an institute in Janakpuri area of Delhi,” he added.

A case was registered against Nitish and Brajbala on Monday under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the Indian Penal Code and both of them were taken into police custody, SSP Singh said. The car used to dispose the dead body has also been seized, he added.

“Records of missing women in the concerned age bracket were gathered from Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and Rajasthan in a bid to identify the woman,” he said.

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