Teenage girl, 19, burned to death in Indian village 'by four men because she wanted to disobey elders and marry for love'

A 19-year-old girl has been burnt to death and her mother beaten after pleading with village elders to be allowed to marry a boy from the same village and same caste, Indian police have confirmed. Anju Yadav, 19, from Karahkol village, in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh, was set on fire at her home while her mother, Gyanwati Devi, 48, was on the other side of the village pleading with the village council to allow Anju to marry her boyfriend of two-years, Ranjit Yadav, 21. But the village council, along with the boy's father, Jai Hind Yadav, 52, rejected their pleas insisting it was against tradition.

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