Our Correspondent

Tarn Taran, July 21

The Goindwal Sahib police took in their custody the half- cremated body of a newly-wedded woman from the Goindwal Sahib cremation ground on Wednesday.

Deceased has been identified as Kulbeer Kaur (29), who was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Wednesday morning, in her house. She was married to Gurpreet Singh of Sultanpur Road, Amritsar, just five months back. The women had come to visit her parents’ home on the first ‘sawan’ month after marriage.

Inspector Navdeep Singh SHO, Goindwal Sahib, said parents of the deceased had been cremating the body without informing her in-laws and they objected to it.

The police immediately rushed to the cremation ground and took the body in its custody. The body has been deposited at the of the local Civil Hospital mortuary.

The SHO said the husband of the deceased had been called to inquire as he had come to see his wife Kulbeer Kaur on Tuesday. The couple was not in good terms with each other, suspected the police.