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Murder of Anu Bansal

On 14 June 2016 Anu Bansal from Bulandshahr, India, received 80% burns to her body and died at Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, a few days later. In July 2022, her husband, Manoj Bansal, was found guilty of killing her for "not giving birth to a son". He received life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 20,000.

In 2016 a first information report (FIR) was filed under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which the police later changed to 306 (suicide). The case was reopened two months later, following a letter written by Bansal's daughter Latika, to the then chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, who subsequently recruited senior officials to take on the case. In court, Bansal's daughter's recounted their eyewitness account of their mother being burned, and told the court that their father was frequently abusive to their mother for the reason that she gave birth to daughters and not sons.

The story gained wide media coverage, including in ''The Times of India'', the BBC News, ''The Tribune'', and ''The Probe'', which led its readers to ''The Lancet's''' 2021 report that shows that 50% of the world's missing female births occur in India due to sex-selective abortion. Provided by Wikipedia