Jaipur, Jun 28 (PTI) A 21-year-old married woman died under suspicious circumstances in Rajasthan's Dausa district with her in-laws performing her last rites without informing her parents, police said on Friday.

Five people, including the victim Sunita Devi's husband, mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law and uncle-in-law, have been booked under sections 304B (dowry death) and 498A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) of the Indian Penal Code, Deputy Superintendent of Police Uday Singh Meena said.

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The DSP said that when Sunita's parents reached the spot, the funeral pyre was already burning in the field, and her in-laws had absconded.

"By the time the police reached the spot, the body of the woman was almost burnt. The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team has collected evidence," he said.

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Efforts are being made to arrest the five accused. Further investigation is underway, he added.

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