Jharkhand horror: Daughter, boyfriend killed by parents; bodies dumped in well

MEDININAGAR: A couple was arrested on Monday, along with three other members of their family, for allegedly murdering their daughter and her boyfriend in Jharkhand's Palamu district, police said.

The bodies of Vibha Kumari, 21, and her boyfriend Subhash Kumar, 22, were recovered from a well in Purni Tariya village in Tarhasi police station area on Sunday evening, they said.

Vibha's parents, Upendra Mahto and Kalawati Devi, were against the relationship, and they had urged their daughter to end it. But she did not listen, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (Lesliganj) Manoj Kumar Jha said.

They hatched a conspiracy, and on the night of August 1, they asked Subhas to come to their place. Vibha's parents, along with her three paternal uncles, murdered the couple and dumped the body into the well, he said.