Man takes Rs 40,000 bank loan to hire 2 to rape, murder sister-in-law

AGRA: A 21-year-old woman from Muzaffarnagar in UP was gang-raped, murdered and set on fire by her brother-in-law who took a Rs 40,000 bank loan to hire two killers and fund the crime, police said. The woman went missing from her village on January 21 and her remains, including her skull, were recovered from a nearby forest on Friday.
Police said the body was charred beyond recognition and her parents managed to identify her from partially-burnt clothes, footwear, ring, hair with a clip intact and undergarments – all recovered from the crime scene.The remains were later sent for postmortem.
An FIR was registered under BNS sections of murder and gang-rape. The brother-in-law was arrested on Saturday. Two others are absconding.
Muzaffarnagar SP (rural) Aditya Bansal said, ” The main accused was in an illicit relationship with her for two years. He told the cops that the woman was blackmailing him with some private photos and videos of them together.”