Jammu, Sept. 22 -- Following the death of a 38-year-old woman under suspicious circumstances, her parents, siblings, relatives and villagers stormed the house of her in-laws in Sai Sardari village of the RS Pura sector in Jammu district, uprooted doors and windows, made a pyre out of them and cremated her body there on Monday.

Though a strong police contingent tried to persuade the angry villagers, they did not yield. The deceased was identified as Sushma Devi, who is survived by her husband, a son and a daughter.

The body was found hanging in a room of her in-laws' house on Sunday. The protesters alleged that the woman had been strangulated to death and her body subsequently hung to make it look like a suicide.

All attempts by the pol...