Day before wedding, mother finds daughter in bed with stranger, kills her

New Delhi: A day before her marriage, a 20-year-old woman has allegedly been smothered to death by her mother in northeast Delhi's Seelampur area after she found her with a tenant, police said on Monday.

The incident happened Sunday night when the victim's mother returned home and found her daughter in a compromising position with the tenant in her room. While the tenant managed to escape, the victim's mother smothered her with a pillow, a police official said.

The victim was about to get married in a day and the house was full of guests.

According to police, the matter came to light after Lok Nayak hospital authorities called the police when the mother and her son brought the victims' body and tried to get her admitted claiming she had attempted suicide.

After smothering her daughter, the woman called her son and narrated the entire incident. She also told relatives that her daughter had suffered a cardiac arrest, the official said.

Following investigations, a case was registered and the victim's mother and brother were arrested today, the official said.

The family is from Meerut and had fixed the victim's marriage with a Ghaziabad-based businessman, police said, adding the victim was in a relationship with the tenant.

The victim's father died a few years ago, after which her brother took up the job of an electrician in a factory, the official added.