Parents set girl afire as she had eloped with a married man

, Sept 21: Just days after a couple from Haryana was brutally murdered for eloping against their families' will, police officials in Bhubaneshwar have arrested the parents of an 18-year -old girl, whom they set on fire.

The victim's fault; she eloped with a married man three months ago. The police has said that they have arrested the girl's parents and her husband for illegally marrying her inspite of having a wife and a son from the first marriage.

According to the police, the couple was living in a house on the outskirts of Bhubaneshwar after eloping and got married two months back.

They added that the girl's parents came to her house and asked her to end her marriage and return home but she refused to do so. They then asked her husband to go and fetch an auto so that they could return back.

When he went out, they gagged her, doused her in kerosene and then set her on fire. The girl died on the spot.

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