Overview
- Greater Noida police arrested a neighbor identified as Kannu after a 22-year-old bride, Monika Nagar, was found dead with burn injuries, and they named her husband Anuj Chauhan and others in a case of suspected murder.
- Investigators say Kannu went to an isolated plot where Anuj allegedly tried to burn Monika’s body, and a separate police account says officers later seized the half-burnt remains from a roadside site.
- Monika’s family reports that she phoned relatives Thursday, May 7, saying she was being assaulted and ordered to transfer land or be killed, and they allege they later saw her body being loaded into an SUV near her in-laws’ home.
- The autopsy did not establish a cause of death, and police preserved viscera for lab testing to clarify how she died and whether any poison or other agents were involved.
- Relatives accuse the husband’s side of pressuring Monika to hand over property worth crores, and they have appealed to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for swift arrests while warning of a sit-in if they see no action.