Kurukshetra, June 29: A couple was today arrested for allegedly burning a 55-year-old woman to death for tilling a land occupied by them in Guldera village of this district.
Sukhwinder Singh and his wife were arrested and produced in the court which remanded them in police custody for two days, police said.
Sukhwinder along with his wife, son, daughter and three others allegedly poured kerosene over Dhanpati Devi and set her on fire last week after the latter won a four acre panchayat land in an auction and had gone to the fields to take possession of the land.
The family was furious because they had tilled the land for years.
As the woman”s tractor destroyed the fodder, the family and three others attacked her and set her ablaze in front of other villagers.
Dhanpati was rushed to a hospital here with 65 per cent burn injuries where she was declared brought dead.
Sukhwinder”s daughter Daljit Kaur has already been arrested while his son and three other accused are absconding, police said.
—–PTI—–