Woman sets house on fire to frame relatives, dies of burns in UP

Police have arrested the husband of a 41-year-old woman who died in a house fire she allegedly started to implicate a few relatives she had a property dispute with, police said on Wednesday.

Besides the husband, the police on Tuesday also arrested her brother and her nephew in connection with the incident which took place in Nooruddin Chak village, an officer said.

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Superintendent of Police Vishwajeet Srivastava, on May 16, a police team responded to a call of fire and found a house engulfed in flames.

The fire was doused, and a woman, identified as Chanda, alias Mahboobi, was rushed to the district hospital and from there to Lucknow, where she died.

Initially, based on a complaint from her husband, a case was registered against Chanda’s stepbrother and two nephews.