rajkot in a brutal case of honour killing a 19yearold woman in gandhidham town of kutch was murdered allegedly by her parents and brother who were bitterly against with her relationship with a dalit manwhile the crime happened on february 28 the police arrested the woman bhartis father ramesh rajgor 42 mother rashmi 40 and her brother manish 21 late on sunday night they had allegedly strangled her to death and try to show it as a suicide by hanging her with the ceiling hookbhartis mother rashmi sat on her chest and smothered her face with a pillow while manish grabbed her hands after she died her father and brother hanged the body from the ceiling of her room to show that she had committed suicide said p a chawda subinspector with gandhidham a division police station however the postmortem report revealed that she had been smothered and strangled there was no outsider at their home when she was murdered moreover manish had even clicked her photographs hanging and showed the doctor this raised suspicion on the family members said chawdawhen we interrogated family members they broke down and confessed to their crime they said they were against bhartis relationship with a dalit youth whom she wanted to marry the officer addedramesh has a tea stall in gandhidham while manish worked with a private firm therebharti and her lover manoj vaghela were colleagues in a unit in kandla free trade zone a year ago however when her family members got to know about their affair they forced bharti to discontinue the job there were frequent quarrels between bharti and her parents and brother over her affair as she was adamant on marrying vaghelaon the night of february 28 there was a bitter argument and fight over the same issue and all three of them killed her added chawda