On January 11, the Indian media reported that a 16-year-old girl was allegedly murdered and her body set ablaze by her own family members in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Her family was reportedly angry over her elopement with an 18-year-old man from the same village. The same day, in the neighboring eastern Indian state of Bihar, a man was accused of killing his son-in-law over a love marriage that the family opposed.
Two days later, came the news of a man in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh killing his 21-year-old daughter and reportedly confessing that he felt dishonored by his daughter’s elopement. A few days later, the media reported that a 16-year-old girl’s death in Bihar state took a mysterious turn after her post-mortem revealed a bullet injury in the chest, contradicting her family’s claim that s
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