Neha Yadav’s in-laws arrested for murder: Cops

She succumbed to her burns in Safdarjang Hospital on July 2.

Written by Kaunain Sheriff M

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New Delhi | October 14, 2014 01:59 AM IST

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In connection with the dowry death case of Neha Yadav, police have arrested three of the accused on charges of murder on Monday. A Delhi court had issued a non-bailable warrant against the accused earlier this month.

“We have arrested Neha’s mother-in-law Sunita Devi, brother-in-law Rajbir Yadav and sister-in-law Reena Yadav. Abhey Singh, her second brother-in-law and another accused, however, are yet to be arrested,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southwest) Suman Goel said.

Neha was allegedly set ablaze by her in-laws on January 13 in Southwest district’s Sagarpur area. AAP leader and the then Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had taken up her cause.

She succumbed to her burns in Safdarjang Hospital on July 2.

Police then converted the offence of “attempt to murder” (307 IPC) to “murder” (302 IPC), which the accused were charged with.

Earlier, on October 1, a Delhi court had allowed the application of the state for re-arrest and judicial custody of the accused, Abhey Yadav, Reena Yadav and Sunita Devi.

Metropolitan Magistrate Dheeraj Mittal had also issued a non-bailable warrant against the accused, as they failed to comply with the court directions to appear before it.

Kaunain Sheriff M

Kaunain Sheriff M is an award-winning investigative journalist and the National Health Editor at The Indian Express. He is the author of Johnson & Johnson Files: The Indian Secrets of a Global Giant, an investigation into one of the world’s most powerful pharmaceutical companies. With over a decade of experience, Kaunain brings deep expertise in three areas of investigative journalism: law, health, and data. He currently leads The Indian Express newsroom’s in-depth coverage of health. His work has earned some of the most prestigious honours in journalism, including the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Award, and the Mumbai Press Club’s Red Ink Award. Kaunain has also collaborated on major global investigations. He was part of the Implant Files project with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which exposed malpractices in the medical device industry across the world. He also contributed to an international investigation that uncovered how a Chinese big-data firm was monitoring thousands of prominent Indian individuals and institutions in real time. Over the years, he has reported on several high-profile criminal trials, including the Hashimpura massacre, the 2G spectrum scam, and the coal block allocation case. Within The Indian Express, he has been honoured three times with the Indian Express Excellence Award for his investigations—on the anti-Sikh riots, the Vyapam exam scam, and the abuse of the National Security Act in Uttar Pradesh. ... Read More

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