Overview
- Police say Jyoti strangled 33-year-old Jitendra Kumar Yadav while her parents and brother held him during a fight at their rented home in Izzatnagar.
- Investigators report the body was hung from a window or ventilator grill with a muffler to make the death appear to be a suicide.
- During questioning, police say Jyoti confessed and described how her family restrained the victim before the killing.
- Officers arrested Jyoti and her parents, Kalicharan and Chameli, and are searching for her brother Deepak, who remains at large.
- Police cite a dispute over Rs 20,000 allegedly withdrawn from Jyoti’s account and lost to online gambling as the immediate trigger after a complaint by the victim’s brother initiated the probe.