India, June 27 -- A 24-year-old woman was found dead at her in-laws' rented house in Raghubir Nagar, west Delhi, a police officer said on Sunday.

Police have arrested her husband and father-in-law and booked them under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita's sections 80 (dowry death) and 85 (subjecting a woman to cruelty).

Deputy commissioner of police (west) Hareshwar V Swami said a call about the death of a woman was received around 7am on Wednesday. A police team reached the scene and found the woman lying dead, with a ligature mark around her neck and a dupatta was tied to the window grill.

The officer said the initial probe suggested that she died by suicide. It was also learnt that the woman had been married for three years and the couple had ...