The household of a 20-year-old girl whose physique was recovered by the police from a pit in Rohtak claimed Saturday that they have been making an attempt to persuade the prime accused within the homicide case – Sanju alias Salim, the person with whom she was allegedly in a relationship – to marry her because the deceased was over 4 months pregnant.
The police, nonetheless, are but to substantiate the being pregnant as they awaiting the postmortem report.
Sony, the deceased from Delhi’s Nangloi, was cremated at Shamshan Ghat highway Saturday.
Two folks, together with Salim, have been arrested for allegedly killing her and later burying her physique in a pit in an deserted space at Madina.
Aside from Salim, the police recognized the opposite accused as Pankaj. “Prima facie, it seems like a case of strangling,” DCP (Outer) Sachin Kumar had stated.
Though the accused lived behind their home, the household claimed that they by no means knew his identify was Salim. “Till 4 months, her child bump was not seen. She then advised us about Sanju in August. Initially, we thought he was a Hindu,” stated Sony’s brother Manish who leases out rickshaws for a residing. “She was speaking to the boy for the previous one-and-a-half years. I by no means knew his actual identify was Salim,” he added.
The police, nonetheless, stated Sony’s being pregnant can solely be ascertained after the postmortem report arrives. “There is no such thing as a proof of being pregnant up to now,” DCP Sharma stated.
On Saturday, a distraught Manish sat exterior his dwelling with a few pals. His sister, who had dropped out of college after Class 10, dreamed of turning into a social media influencer and finally shopping for a home for the household. She had 6,000 followers on her Instagram web page that additionally present references to Salim below totally different names.
“She pressured her brother to offer her an iphone to make reels. I used to purchase her all the things she needed. She would end family chores each morning after which costume as much as make movies,” her mom Ranjan Devi, who works as a home assist, stated. The mom claimed that Sony was once awake all evening making reels and spoke to Salim.
Manish stated that they had been “making an attempt to persuade Salim to marry her for the final two months”. “However Sony was not allowed in his (Salim’s) home. Two days earlier than she went lacking, he stated he would come and take dwelling. He got here at 4 am on October 21, and took her,” he claimed. The identical morning, Manish filed a lacking criticism with the police. Salim and Pankaj have been arrested from Paschim Vihar Thursday.
