This story is from September 5, 2020

Bihar: 19-year-old girl burnt alive by uncle and aunt over property dispute in Muzaffarpur

Bihar: 19-year-old girl burnt alive by uncle and aunt over property dispute in Muzaffarpur
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PATNA: In a hair raising incident, a 19-year-old girl Sufiyan Parveen was burnt alive by her uncle and aunt at village Rampur Bakhri under Sakra police station area in Muzaffarpur on Friday night mere due to dispute over 10 dhur (half kattha) of land on which the family lived.
Soon after incident, the girl’s uncle Zainul Abdeen, his wife Hakima Khatoon along with three minor sons fled from the village.
Hakima’s father and her brother are also evading arrest.
Sufiyan’s mother Husna Bano had lodged an FIR with Sakra police station against Zainul, Hakima, her father and brother for killing her by strangulating and thereafter burning by pouring kerosene.
Sufiya‘s younger brother Kudrat Ali, while talking to TOI over phone on Saturday said that she had went to take bath at neighbour Samshud Zoha’s residence as their hand-pump was not working.
“The neighbouring family had went somewhere after giving us keys for daily use of bathroom,” he said.
He said aunty Hakima along with others had followed Sufiyan inside Zoha’s residence and then tried to strangulate her. “Thereafter all they poured kerosene on her and burned her and fled from backside of bathroom,” he said.
Kudrat said Sufiyan screamed for help after which his mother rushed for help. “Others villagers later also gathered but till then she had died,” he said.

Kudrat said his father Abdul Sattar had wrote 10 dhur land in village to uncle ten years back before dying. “Uncle claims his ownership on that land as well as ten dhur additional land in which they all live with us at present,” he said.
He said uncle and aunty had thrashed his mother on several occasion and had been torturing them since several years.
“He had threatened multiple times in past that he would kill me so that none remains to claim ownership on property. We had earlier also lodged FIR against them but no action was taken,” he said adding aunt takes advantage of situation as she hails from Rampur Bakhri only.
Sakra police station SHO Lallan Kumar said all four accused were evading arrest and raids were going on to nab them.
He said Zainul and Hakima wants to get Sufiyan’s family evicted from land where they live together. “This is root cause of all dispute as well as reason for burning Sufiya alive,” he said.
SHO said bathroom was locked from inside which had raised little suspicion. “However, police is investigating the incident from murder angle only,” he added.
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