A 17-year-old girl was shot dead allegedly by her father, who threw her body into a river, in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district in what police suspect to be a case of “honour killing”, an official said on Sunday.

The body was retrieved from the Kwari river near Galetha village on Sunday, five days after the murder, Civil Lines police station house officer Darshan Shukla told PTI.

Bharat, alias Bantu Sikarwar, was detained on Saturday after a neighbour tipped the police that the elder daughter of the accused had been missing. The caller also told the cops that he heard a gunshot and a scream from the Sikarwar’s house four days ago, the official said.

The incident took place on September 23 at the family’s residence in Ambah Bypass locality in Morena city. Victim Divya was a Class 12 stude

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