Overview
- Police say the killing took place on Friday when 22-year-old Sandeep Yadav allegedly strangled his 20-year-old sister, Ranju, and dumped her body in a nearby well.
- Investigators report Yadav walked into the Haswa police outpost the following morning and confessed to the killing, after which he was taken into custody and a case was registered.
- Officers recovered Ranju’s body from the well, sent it for post-mortem examination, and said further inquiries are under way under the supervision of Fatehpur police.
- Police describe a sequence of events in which Ranju, married about one-and-a-half months earlier, had left her parents’ home with a boyfriend from another community for three days and was then returned to her husband after family counselling.
- The case raises questions about pressure on newly married women to follow traditional post-wedding norms and the limits of family control, and officials say the post-mortem and probe findings will determine formal charges and next steps.