A woman and her teenage daughter were burnt alive during an “anti-encroachment” drive in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur Dehat district on Monday.
According to reports, the inhabitants of a thatched hut protested when authorities had gone there to remove “illegal encroachments.”
The women threatened to set themselves on fire. Subsequently, a fire broke out inside the hut charing 44-year-old Pramila and her daughter Neha, 19, to death.
The villagers accused the authorities of being responsible for the fire which killed Pramila and her daughter.
Pramila’s husband Krishna Gopal claimed that the officials in connivance with influential people of the village targetted his family.
The police claimed that Pramila and her daughter set themselves on fire.
An investigation has been ordered into the incident.
