johlan raikot in a suspected case of honour killing a girl was allegedly strangled by her parents and uncles in their house for having an affair with a lower caste married man police on wednesday arrested her parents gurdeep singh a farmer in his sixties and mother amarjeet kaur 55 a homemaker and her three uncles at johlan village near here according to police manpreet kaur a 24yearold student of mcom at sgg girls college in raikot was allegedly having an affair with gurdeep singh in his thirties and a resident of muhalla maulviyan in raikot when manpreets parents came to know about her relationship with gurpreet father of two children about three months ago they objected to it on monday night there was a heated argument between manpreet and her parents following which they allegedly strangled her to death said police officials to avoid being caught they cremated her clandestinely around 4am however they were arrested the next day when police reached the spot following a tip off and an inquiry dsp raikot satnam singh said the accused had been booked under sections 302 murder 201 causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to shield offender and 120b punishment of criminal conspiracy of ipc police said gurpreet has not been taken into the custody as there is no case against him he had a marital discord with his wife who was behind bars in a drug trafficking case earlier she had allegedly tried to frame him in the case as there were frequent fights between them because of his affair with the girl a neighbour of the deceased said gurpreet who has a medical store near manpreets house used to visit the family to give them medicines for mental illness and joint pains the deceased was the youngest of the three daughters of her parents her two sisters are already married however some villagers hinted at a property angle saying manpreets father owned 21 acres and gurpreet may have coaxed her to demand a share