Mandi: In a peculiar incident highlighting lack of faith in the country’s justice delivery system, family of a girl who allegedly committed suicide, forcibly lit her pyre in the courtyard of her in-laws on Saturday evening.
The victim, Anjana (23) of village Manjhrotu under Nachan Vidhan Sabha of Sundernagar sub-division in Himachal Pradesh, had died at PGI, Chandigarh, on Wednesday, after she received burn injuries due to a blast in a kitchen stove. The incident sparked off resentment in her parental village in Bilaspur district from where about 600 angry villagers traveling in trucks, cars, tractors and two-wheelers and mobbed the village of her in-laws. They then carried her body to their courtyard and carried out cremation amidst slogan shouting against the administration. Seeing the huge crowd, the villagers had already left their homes fearing violence. The situation remained tense till the cremation was over.Read Full Story
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