21-year-old BSc student found hanging in Haryana’s Rewari village

Police were alerted after neighbours spotted the woman’s family taking her body for cremation; cops reached the spot and asked them to conduct an autopsy first

Set to get married on November 21, a 21-year-old woman was found hanging from a tree near her house in Rewari’s Bhadawas village on Monday.

According to her family, the woman was a BSc final-year student and her marriage was fixed with her consent, a police spokesman said. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Police were alerted after neighbours spotted the woman’s family taking her body for cremation. Cops reached the spot and asked them to conduct an autopsy first.

According to her family, the woman was a BSc final-year student and her marriage was fixed with her consent, a police spokesman said. The body was handed over to the family following autopsy and inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC were initiated.