<p>Police have recovered the body of a woman from a canal in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, suspected to be that of a teacher in an MCD school who was killed by her family at Kanjhawala in outer Delhi over her relationship with a man belonging to a different caste.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Jonti village resident Deepti Chhikara’s brother Mohit, 20, and mother Veermati, 50, have confessed to strangling the 24-year-old and dumping her body in the Ganga canal in Uttarakhand’s Roorkee city on April 19. <br /><br />They were arrested on Thursday.<br /><br />Sources said an outer Delhi Police team was in Uttarakhand to recover Deepti’s body. “The team has recovered a woman’s body from the canal at Khatauli town in Muzaffarnagar, which is 80 km from Roorkee,” sources added. <br /><br />The police have sent the body for a post-mortem and are awaiting DNA test results to ascertain her identity, the sources said. <br /><br />The sensational “honour killing” came to light after Deepti’s second husband, Lalit Vats, a 25-year-old engineer, wrote an e-mail to a senior Delhi Police official on May 18 reporting that she had been missing since the third week of April.<br /><br />Lalit claimed that he married Deepti on February 23, but Deepti had concealed it from her family. <br /><br />Her first marriage was conducted in December, 2011, under family pressure, but she had left her husband within a month.<br /><br />During initial investigation, Deepti’s family failed to give any satisfactory reply on her mysterious disappearance and later admitted that they feared societal reaction over Deepati’s marriage to a man from different caste.<br /><br />Mohit and Veermati claimed that Deepti’s uncle Amit, who is absconding, was also involved in the incident. <br /><br />They face charges of murder, removing evidence and hatching criminal conspiracy under Sections 302, 201 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code.</p>
<p>Police have recovered the body of a woman from a canal in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, suspected to be that of a teacher in an MCD school who was killed by her family at Kanjhawala in outer Delhi over her relationship with a man belonging to a different caste.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Jonti village resident Deepti Chhikara’s brother Mohit, 20, and mother Veermati, 50, have confessed to strangling the 24-year-old and dumping her body in the Ganga canal in Uttarakhand’s Roorkee city on April 19. <br /><br />They were arrested on Thursday.<br /><br />Sources said an outer Delhi Police team was in Uttarakhand to recover Deepti’s body. “The team has recovered a woman’s body from the canal at Khatauli town in Muzaffarnagar, which is 80 km from Roorkee,” sources added. <br /><br />The police have sent the body for a post-mortem and are awaiting DNA test results to ascertain her identity, the sources said. <br /><br />The sensational “honour killing” came to light after Deepti’s second husband, Lalit Vats, a 25-year-old engineer, wrote an e-mail to a senior Delhi Police official on May 18 reporting that she had been missing since the third week of April.<br /><br />Lalit claimed that he married Deepti on February 23, but Deepti had concealed it from her family. <br /><br />Her first marriage was conducted in December, 2011, under family pressure, but she had left her husband within a month.<br /><br />During initial investigation, Deepti’s family failed to give any satisfactory reply on her mysterious disappearance and later admitted that they feared societal reaction over Deepati’s marriage to a man from different caste.<br /><br />Mohit and Veermati claimed that Deepti’s uncle Amit, who is absconding, was also involved in the incident. <br /><br />They face charges of murder, removing evidence and hatching criminal conspiracy under Sections 302, 201 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code.</p>
