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| Bhavna Yadava |
Seriously! There is something called honor killing but I would have thought killing your child should not be included.
India police allege Bhavna Yadava was strangled and her body burnt by her parents and uncle because she had secretly married 24-year-old Abhishek Seth in a union that undermined their family's 'prestige'.
The 21-year-old student from a leading New Dehli University, appears to be the latest of a series of cruel honour killings that have shocked India.
Husband, Abhishek is Punjabi, while Bhavna was Yadav, from the Rajasthan region.
She told her parents day after the couple secretly married on November 12th, 2014. Under the auspices of sorting out their differences, her parents Jagmohan and Savitri Yadav then invited her to come home.
It was during her visit that she was beaten and strangled November 15th. After killing their daughter, the parents took her body to their village in Alwar, Rajasthan, where they set it on fire, police said.
Abhishek told NDTV: 'I never got any indication of course that her parents would do this. If I had any inkling, I would have never sent her back home.
'Six months ago, I called her parents and told them about us - they told me: "You are Punjabi, stay away. We are Yadavs. This won't work".'
Bhavna and Abhishek (pictured together left and right) married each other on November 12.
Jagmohan and Savitri were arrested on Tuesday and sent to judicial custody by a Delhi court - although police are still hunting Bhavna's uncle, who is suspected of being complicit in the murder.
'While questioning they broke down and admitted that they had strangled their daughter at their Delhi home,' said the officer
'The accused have been charged with murder, but we are investigating if it is a case of honour killing,' a senior police official said.
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| Temple were they got married November 12th |
Credit: Mailonline
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