Youth strangulated to death in honour killing, two held

Loni police today arrested two persons for allegedly killing a man who was reportedly in a relationship with the sister of one of them.
According to DSP Anil Yadav, acting on a tip-off, police arrested Joginder and Monu, residents of Rajpur village, from Jawali canal at around 1 pm.
During interrogation, the two confessed that on August 22, they had smothered Pramod alias Bali as the deceased was in a relationship with Joginder's sister which he did not approve of.
Joginder and Monu strangulated Bali with a leather belt before smashing his face with a brick so nobody could ascertain his identity.

The duo then dumped the body in the forest and went absconding.
Bali's younger brother spotted the blood-stained slippers of the deceased while going to the field the next morning.

He immediately raised an alarm. The villagers launched a hunt for Bali and eventually, found his body.
On being informed, police reached the spot and sent the body for post-mortem.
Acting on information provided by the accused, the police have also recovered the murder weapons -- a brick and a leather belt.