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Father and Brother Arrested in Muzaffarnagar Honor Killing of Delivery Agent

The arrests follow identification of her half-burnt remains in a Muzaffarnagar forest with police attributing the crime to family shame over her live-in relationship.

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Overview

  • Rajvir Singh, 55, and his son Sumit, 24, confessed to strangling Saraswati on the night of May 29–30 and burning her body with petrol to conceal her identity.
  • Police identified the victim after finding her half-burnt body in a Katia village jungle on June 3 by matching a silver bracelet to her social media images.
  • Investigators say Saraswati had twice been forced into arranged marriages in Morna and Shamli before returning to her parental home both times.
  • Saraswati and her partner Amit began working as Blinkit delivery agents in Gurgaon in 2022 and she returned on May 10 to seek her family’s approval for their relationship.
  • A third suspect, Gurdayal Singh, remains at large as authorities conduct raids to arrest him on charges of murder and evidence tampering.