<![CDATA[A woman’s charred body was recovered from a temple adjacent to her house on Saturday morning. According to the police on Monday, three of the five people have been arrested and raids are going on to take the other two into custody on charges of being accused of burning the woman alive after raping her in Sambhal district. Police said that the victim’s husband, a labourer in Ghaziabad was in Noida when the incident took place and has filed a complaint against the five for raping the woman and subsequently setting her on fire. According to him, his wife had called her cousin after she was gang-raped to inform about the incident, but the accused returned and burnt her alive before she could contact the police. Mr. Prem Prakash, Additional Director General of Bareilly Zone, said the accused came to know about the incident on Saturday morning and have been denying their direct involvement in the crime. They are only admitting to having had an argument regarding a man who allegedly used to visit her house in the absence of her husband with the woman on Friday. Mr. Prakash said that they had informed the woman’s husband and his brother about the man. The police are actively on the search for any sort of clue related to the incident since there is no eyewitness. They are checking all call details of the accused to find their location during which the crime was committed. They have also been enquiring with the woman’s daughter, who was present in the house with the woman before the incident occurred. According to Inspector General, Mr. Binod Kumar Singh, Moradabad Range, they have asked the Forensic Science Laboratory, Moradabad, to ascertain if she was gang-raped through the post-mortem report.]]>
