Banda: In a suspected case of honour killing, a man has been arrested for allegedly beating his 22-year-old daughter to death in Simauni village under Baberu police station area, police said on Monday.
Circle Officer (CO) of Baberu, Siyaram, said Mehmood Khan (49) beat his daughter Hasina Bano to death using sticks around 5.30 pm on Sunday.
The CO said police, after being informed by farmers working in a field, took the woman to hospital, where she was declared dead.
"Initial probe suggests that Khan wanted to marry his daughter to a person, but she was unwilling," police said, adding the woman had gone missing four years ago.
The woman was later found and handed over to her father, they said.
Baberu Station House Officer (SHO) NK Nagar said the accused father was arrested on Monday, and he is being interrogated.
The SHO said the probe so far points that it is a case of honour killing. The body has been sent for post-mortem, Nagar said. PTI
