Kin seek fresh probe into British Sikh woman’s ‘murder’

A British Sikh family has written to UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson seeking a fresh investigation into the death of a woman, who they claim was killed by her husband and in-laws in India.

The woman was a mother of four, who died in “highly suspicious circumstances” in March 2015 after allegedly refusing to allow one of her sons to be adopted by her childless brotherin-law, who was said to be desperate for a male heir to secure “ancestral wealth”, a daily reported.

In the letter to Johnson this week, representatives of the woman’s family say she was “tricked” into going on a family trip to India, where she died after a heated argument with her husband on giving up their youngest son. The family said they were told she had died of a “sudden heart attack”, but found bruises on her body. The woman was cremated without their knowledge before they could fly her back to Britain.

The relatives claim they have been “shunted from pillar to post” by the UK foreign office and metropolitan police and have a meeting in the Parliament complex in London next week where they will call for a fresh investigation into the death.

Scotland Yard said it was “aware of the tragic death” but was “unable to comment publicly”.