MEERUT: A 22-year-old man allegedly murdered his 18-year-old cousin by strangulating her at a

farm in

after she refused to continue with their “affair”. According to the police, the cousins got into an illicit affair while working together as labourers in Punjab. However, when the woman relocated to Shamli and refused to continue with the “affair”, Monu strangulated her at a sugarcane field and fled. A case has been filed and a team has been made to find the accused.

Sandeep Baliyan, station house officer,

police station, said, “The incident came to fore on Monday morning when some villagers spotted the dead body of an 18-year-old woman at a sugarcane field in Goshgarh village here. Prima facie it seems she was strangulated to death. But we have sent her body for postmortem to have a clear picture.”

“Furious after being ignored, the man took the woman to a sugarcane field on Saturday evening and killed her. She was missing for the last two days,” said Baliyan.