A 20-year-old woman, whose “death" had led to her husband and in-laws being booked in a dowry death case, has been found alive in Madhya Pradesh after two years, police said. The woman had gone missing from her marital home in Auraiya district in 2023, about 18 months after her marriage. When she could not be traced, her family lodged a missing person’s complaint on October 23, 2023.

With no breakthrough in the search, her relatives alleged she had been killed for dowry. Acting on a court’s directions, police registered a case against her husband and six in-laws under Section 304B (dowry death) of the Indian Penal Code. For the past two years, her husband’s family faced trial in the case. Meanwhile, the matter was pursued by the Special Operations Group and surveillance teams of the Uttar

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