In a suspected case of honour killing, a teenage girl was allegedly poisoned by her father who waited for her to die as she sat on a bench near a crematorium, police said yesterday. He had planned to dump his daughter's body in the Ganga river, on the banks of which the crematorium is situated, so that no one could trace it, they said. Tanu, believed to be about 16, died during treatment at the Bhopa Primary Health Centre here last evening, Station House Officer of the Bhopa Police Station, V P Singh said.

A group of Army aspirants, who practice running at an empty ground of the crematorium every evening, found her trembling in a semi-conscious state, he said. The girl, who had studied till Class 7, signalled them for help, V P Singh said, adding when they drew close to her, she blurted out her name and that "her father had poisoned her".