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FAIZABAD: A married woman, whose husband had been booked for her alleged murder over dowry, was found alive and living with another man. After police arrested her, tracking her Facebook footprints and mobile use, she admitted before the local court that news about her death was a red herring and she had got married to the person she was living with.

According to police, Rubi , a resident of Safdarganj police station area of Barabanki, was married to Rahul, a resident of the same area, in January 2016. In June 2018, Rubi's father Hariprasad approached the local police to lodge a complaint that she was killed by her husband Rahul, father-in-law Ram Harsh and mother-in-law Barki for dowry. After investigation, police didn’t find the complaint convicning enough to lodge an FIR. So, Hariprasad approached a local court and on the court's order police had to lodge a case in July 2018.

"When Rubi's father approached us and accused his son-in-law of killing his daughter for dowry, we probed the matter, but couldn’t recover her body,” said Barabanki SP V P Srivastava. “But after the FIR was lodged on the court’s order, we again started our probe. After we came to know that her Facebook ID was active, we tracked her FB footprint for two months and put her phone on surveillance,” the SP told TOI. The police team soon got success when it came to know about her addresses in Delhi where she was residing with a person called Ramu.

A team was rushed to Delhi and the two were arrested. On Thursday, they admitted that she faked her death to get married to Ramu. The police have lifted the case lodged against Rahul and booked Rubi's father under Section 182 for misleading the court.

