In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old newly wed girl, who declined to live with her 50-year-old husband, was allegedly strangled to death by her father and other family members at Kasan village in Kaithal district of Haryana.
Mukesh was married to Jayveer as per a custom that involves an arrangement between two families in which a girl is married off to a man of other family provided the family agrees to marry off one of their girls to a boy of the first family, villagers said.
The families of Inder, a resident of Kasan, and Jayveer of Koth village in Hisar district decided to marry girls of each other's families.
Under the arrangement, Mukesh was married to Jayveer (50) and Ritika to Inder (Jayveer's family), an uncle of Mukesh, police said on Tuesday.
However, Mukesh, who returned to her parental house some time back refused to go back to her husband's house.
A panchayat was held on July 2 to persuade Mukesh to go to her in-laws house but she refused.
Mukesh was killed on July 3 by father and other family members, police said.
Meanwhile, police has registered a case of murder against the father of the deceased and uncles Inder Singh and Basu Ram.