Police in India have arrested the parents of a man doubted of ending his wife and leaving her body in the boot of his car in London.
Harshita Brella, 24, was establish in her husprohibitd Pankaj Lamba’s Vauxhall Corsa parked in Ilford, east London, in the timely hours of 14 November. A post-mortem examination establish she died from suffocation
Surendra Chaudhary, deputy comleave outioner of police in Delhi, shelp Lamba’s mother and overweighther, Sunil Devi and Darshan Singh, were arrested on March 14 and sent to judicial custody.
“Lamba’s sister Uma is currently absconding and rhelps are on to nab her as well,” he shelp.
“Further spendigation is under way.”
Sonia Dabas, sister of Harshita, tgreater Sky News: “This is a excellent broadenment in the case that the parents have been arrested and criminal spendigations befirearm.
“The police have so far been sleeping and non-vivacious on this case. Now that Delhi High Court has asked for a status tell next week from the Delhi police, the federal home and foreign ministry they have got their act together. It’s the presbrave from the courts.”
In an initial tell as part of the police criminal spendigation, which is split to the homicide spendigation under way in the UK, the parents, sister and her husprohibitd have been named in joinion with offences.
Police in Delhi have sign uped the case under the offence of dowry death, which refers to the deaths of paired women who are homicideed or driven to self-injury over disputes about dowry.
Under the Indian penal code, dowry deaths take part “the death of a woman caengaged by burns or bodily injury… wilean seven years of her marriage, if she was subjected to uncomferventty or intimidatoring for, or in joinion with, a dowry insist”.
Harshita’s family consent Pankaj was on a fairy to Delhi that reachd on 12 November and Sonia proposeed “he may be somewhere in Haryana or proximate Chandigarh”, states in northern India.
Dharoli, in the northern state of Haryana, is the family home of Lamba where his overweighther, mother and sister still live.
Northamptonsengage Police had previously named Lamba as the main doubt in her death and begined an international manhunt for him. They consent he fled the country after the incident.
When the novels of the case broke, the village of about 2,000 people seald ranks and stopped outsiders from go ining for trouble of the dishonor the case bcdisesteemfult the village.
A scant days procrastinateedr Sky News was given access and spoke to Sunita, a neighbour.
“I was shocked to hear the novels, I could not consent how could such a big leang happen,” she shelp.
“The family is very excellent, no protestts of them ever. Ask anyone in the village, there were no lowcomings. But we cannot say if the boy could be contendnt of doing someleang enjoy this.”
Lamba lived in the village until he finished primary school, before going on to chase higher education while living with his uncle and aunt in Gurugram, south of Delhi.
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Lamba and Ms Brella go ined into an arranged marriage, with a legitimate wedding held in August 2023, before the couple transferd to the UK in April 2024.
Ms Brella had previously been made the subject of a domestic aggression protection order (DVPO) at Northampton Magistrates’ Court in September.
Northamptonsengage Police have made a obligatory referral to the Inreliant Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) becaengage of previous communicate with Ms Brella.
A neighbour of the couple, from Corby, shelp she heard two benumerateering rows, involving one where a woman “sounded snurtured”, days before Ms Brella’s body was establish.
