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Jhajjar (Haryana), Aug 10 (IANS) Haryana Police Monday evening arrested five people for the murder of a couple in the state’s Jhajjar district Sunday, officials said.
“Police have arrested five people in Sunday’s killing of a couple in village Siwana. We have registered a case against nine people and police are raiding various hideouts to nab the other four accused,” Inspector General of Police (Rohtak Range) V. Kamaraja told IANS Monday evening.

“The arrested accused include father of the deceased girl, her three relatives and one relative of the deceased boy. We suspect that they hanged the bodies on the tree after beating them to death. Their interrogation is on and very soon we will reach some final conclusion,” Kamaraja added.

The bodies of a man and a minor girl who went missing from their homes Aug 1 were found hanging from a tree on the outskirts of their village Sunday.

The couple - Sandeep Singh and Monika - lived in the same village. On the basis of their school certificates, the girl was a minor while Sandeep Singh was 22 years old.

The couple had eloped from the Siwana village and the girl’s family registered a complaint against Sandeep Aug 5.

This was the third case of the so-called ‘honour killing’ in Haryana in less than a month.

Earlier, a young couple was allegedly beaten to death by family members of the girl in a village in Rohtak district Aug 6.

Last month, a 21-year-old man was lynched for marrying against the wishes of his community in Haryana’s Jind district.