Family murders daughter-in-law, buries her in a pit outside house

A 25-year-old woman, who was reported missing from Faridabad two months ago, was found murdered and buried in a soak-pit dug outside her marital home in Palla's Roshan Nagar, police said on Friday.

- Debashish Karmakar

GURUGRAM: Police said her in-laws allegedly killed her and concealed the crime by claiming she had eloped.

The body of Tannu Rajput, who got married to Arun Singh, 28, in 2023, was recovered from a pit around 8 to 10 feet deep after police dug up the road in front of the family's three-storey home. Police said her decomposed remains were identified by her parental family through her clothing. An autopsy was conducted at Badshah Khan Civil Hospital by a medical board on Friday and the report was expected to arrive by next week.

Originally from Khera village in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district, Rajput was reported missing on April 25, when her husband filed a complaint at Palla police station, claiming that she was intellectually challenged and had vanished the day before. Investigators later found the claim was an elaborate cover-up for murder.