<p>   u00a0</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   According to police, the victim, Manisha Dhangar, in early 20s, was allegedly strangulated by her father, uncle and grandmother in her sleep at their Pathari village in Jalgaon.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   While the honour killing took place on March 12, it has come to light only now, say police.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Police arrested Manisha&#39;s father Yuvraj and uncle Rama on Saturday. &quot;We produced them in the court on Monday and they have been remanded in police custody till April 12,&quot; an official from Jalgaon district&#39;s MIDC Police Station told IANS.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Police said Manisha&#39;s family was angry over her affair with Sandeep Patil, &quot;a boy from a different caste (Maratha)&quot;, who was their neighbour.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;According to villagers, Sandeep and Manisha had decided to elope and marry as they faced opposition from Manisha&#39;s family. But her family members allegedly killed her after they got wind of it,&quot; the official said.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;After killing Manisha, her father and uncle took her body and dumped it almost 30 km away from their village,&quot; he added.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Police had, however, received an anonymous phone call and a letter saying Manisha had been missing from her village and that her family members were behaving in a suspicious manner.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;We had then made inquiries about the case and found that her family had not registered a missing person&#39;s complaint. After interrogation, her father and uncle narrated the entire story and confessed to the murder,&quot; the official said.</div>  

A court in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district today remanded a tribal girl's father and uncle in police custody for murdering her because she was in love with a boy from a different caste, police said.

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