17 year old Aastha killed by her own mother for talking to her boyfriend
The body of a 17 year old girl named Aastha was found near a canal in the Partapur region of
Meerut
on Friday. She was murdered by none other than her own mother and her family members and was beheaded using a bolt cutter, said the police.
Police have arrested Rakesh Devi (mother), 40, Monu, 26, Kamal Singh, 56, Samar Singh, 54, and a 14-year-old minor in connection to this crime. Another accused, identified as Gaurav, of Hapur, is absconding.
Aastha's mother Rakesh Devi caught her talking to her boyfriend on Wednesday in Darula, Devi along with her family members first strangled her to death and decapitated her using a bolt cutter, said Meerut SSP Vipin Tada, as quoted by
TOI
.
SSP said, in order to prevent anyone from identifying her body, the head was thrown in the Ganga canal which is yet to be recovered. The rest of the body was wrapped in a cloth and thrown in the Bahadurpur canal.
The crime came to light on Thursday when a local farmer spotted the body in the canal. The clothes helped police identify the victim and led the cops to her lover. "A police team retrieved the body. An FIR under sections 103(1) (murder) and 238 (destruction of evidence) of BNS was filed at Partapur police station. A forensic team also collected samples and evidence from the spot," said SSP Tada.
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The family initially tried to mislead the police by claiming that Aastha had left home for school on Wednesday morning but did not return till evening. After failing to locate her, they filed a missing complaint.
Meerut SSP Vipin Tada told TOI, "Aastha came into contact with a man on social media around eight months ago and developed a relationship, which enraged her family. Her father is a CRPF personnel posted in Chhattisgarh and was clueless about the crime."
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