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Harshita Brella was found to be dead on November 14 and her husband Pankaj Lamba became a prime suspect in her murder case.
Harshita was allegedly strangled to death in Corby, Northamptonshire, on 10 November | Image/File
Harshita Brella, a 24-year-old Indian woman whose body was found in a car boot in London, had allegedly warned her mother weeks earlier that her “husband would kill her.”
Brella was found dead on November 14 and her husband Pankaj Lamba became a prime suspect in her murder case. The cops claimed that Brella, who moved to the UK in April after marrying Lamba in August last year, was strangulated to death days before her body was found in the boot of a car.
Almost a month after the incident, Brella’s mother, Sudesh Kumari, revealed that she spoke to her daughter weeks before her death. “She said I will not go back to him. He will kill me,” Harshita’s mother told BBC. “(Lamba) was making her life miserable,” she added.
The victim’s family claims that Pankaj Lamba, her husband and the main suspect in the case, is in India. However, they allege that local police have been unresponsive to their pleas. According to the local police, UK authorities have not yet sought their assistance in the matter.
The victim’s father accused Lamba of domestic violence and claimed that he used to beat his daughter so badly that she had a miscarriage in the weeks leading up to her death. “She said ‘he beat me badly. He even beat me in the street’. My daughter was crying, crying so hard,” Satbir Brella said.
Meanwhile, the mother of the main suspect said that she could not believe that her son would have killed her. “I don’t know anything but I cannot believe this,” Sunil Devi told the BBC.
According to earlier reports, Brella had filed a domestic abuse complaint with the police in August. Lamba was arrested on September 3 but was later released on conditional bail, with a domestic violence protection order issued against him.
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