Police await postmortem report: Family of woman found dead says she was pregnant, wanted accused to marry her

Sony, the deceased from Delhi’s Nangloi, was cremated astatine Shamshan Ghat roadworthy Saturday.

Two people, including Salim, were arrested for allegedly sidesplitting her and aboriginal burying her assemblage successful a pit successful an abandoned country astatine Madina.

Apart from Salim, the constabulary identified the different accused arsenic Pankaj. “Prima facie, it looks similar a lawsuit of strangling,” DCP (Outer) Sachin Kumar had said.

Although the accused lived down their house, the household claimed that they ne'er knew his sanction was Salim. “Until 4 months, her babe bump was not visible. She past told america astir Sanju successful August. Initially, we thought helium was a Hindu,” said Sony’s member Manish who leases retired rickshaws for a living. “She was talking to the lad for the past one-and-a-half years. I ne'er knew his existent sanction was Salim,” helium added.

The police, however, said Sony’s gestation tin lone beryllium ascertained aft the postmortem study arrives. “There is nary impervious of gestation truthful far,” DCP Sharma said.

On Saturday, a distraught Manish sat extracurricular his location with a mates of friends. His sister, who had dropped retired of schoolhouse aft Class 10, dreamed of becoming a societal media influencer and yet buying a location for the family. She had 6,000 followers connected her Instagram leafage that besides amusement references to Salim nether antithetic names.

“She forced her member to springiness her an iphone to marque reels. I utilized to bargain her everything she wanted. She would decorativeness household chores each greeting and past formal up to marque videos,” her parent Ranjan Devi, who works arsenic a home help, said. The parent claimed that Sony utilized to beryllium awake each nighttime making reels and spoke to Salim.

Manish said they had been “trying to person Salim to wed her for the past 2 months”. “But Sony was not allowed successful his (Salim’s) house. Two days earlier she went missing, helium said helium would travel and instrumentality home. He came astatine 4 americium connected October 21, and took her,” helium claimed. The aforesaid morning, Manish filed a missing ailment with the police. Salim and Pankaj were arrested from Paschim Vihar Thursday.