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Madhya Pradesh Dowry Killing: A horrifying incident has to come to the fore from Rajgarh district in Madhya Pradesh where a 23-year-old pregnant woman was brutally murdered and her hands and legs hacked off, allegedly by her husband and in-laws, who then set her mutilated body on fire.
The victim, 23-year-old victim, identified as Reena Tanwar, was brutally killed her limbs chopped off, and the mutilated body set on fire by her husband, Mithun, and her in-laws who used to torture her over dowry, the slain woman’s family has alleged.
According to reports, the shocking incident occurred at the Tandi Khurd village in Kalipeeth police station area on Monday. The victim’s family said Reena’s father Ramprasad Tanwar arrived in Tandi Khurd with the police after they were informed about the murder by a local resident.
However, the Reena’s husband and in-laws had fled the village and left behind the young woman’s half-burnt and mutilated corpse on the burning pyre. Upon discovering the horrific fate of their daughter, Reena’s family doused the pyre, retrieved her maimed body and wrapped it in a piece of cloth.
Police said they have taken possession of the body and sent it for post-mortem analysis.
A 23-year-old pregnant woman was murdered, her hands and legs chopped off and the mutilated body set on fire in #MadhyaPradesh‘s #Rajgarh district yesterday. Reena Tanwar’s family has alleged that her husband Mithun and in-laws had been torturing her for dowry.
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Reena Tanwar had married Mithun Tanwar five years ago and the couple have a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter. She was four months pregnant with her second child at the time of her death, police said.
Reena’s family has alleged that her in-laws constantly tortured her over dowry and kept demanding money, and eventually murdered her in the most brutal fashion.
“We sent money to her in-law on several occasions to resolve the matter, but they never seemed satiated and eventually murdered her along with her unborn child,” said a relative of the victim.
He said that someone from the Tanda Khurd village made a call to the family, informing them that Reena was murdered and was being cremated in a haste.
“When we arrived there with the police, her mutilated body was lying on the smoldering pyre and the in-laws had fled,” he said.
Meanwhile, police said that they have acted on a complaint lodged by kin of the deceased woman who alleged she was her in-laws.
A senior official said Reena’s brother found from villagers that his sister was being cremated, following which he approached the police.
“Brother of the deceased Reena Tanwar lodged a complaint stating his sister was killed by her in-laws who used to harass her, and her last rites were being conducted without informing her parents,” said Kalipeeth police station in-charge Rajnish Sirotia.
Sirotia said police rushed to the crematio grounds and pulled out the half-burnt body from the funeral pyre and sent it for postmortem, adding that the victim’s in-laws have denied the allegations, claiming that she died after being bitten by some poisonous animal.
Further action will be dependent on the findings of the postmortem report, he added.
(With PTI inputs)
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