Newly wed Indian woman burnt alive on a funeral pyre.

A 24-year-old Indian woman was allegedly burned alive on a funeral pyre, a day after she had been declared dead.

Rachna Sisodia died two days after being admitted to hospital in Noida, a town just outside Delhi, with fever, breathlessness and abdominal pains. Medical report shows she died of “cardiorespiratory arrest and acute respiratory distress syndrome.”

A day later on 26 February, the newlywed’s body was being burned on a funeral pyre under instructions from her husband Devesh Chaudhary.

The police arrived at the ceremony and pulled Sisodia from the flames, amid allegations from her family that her husband had deliberately attempted to murder her by burning her alive.

The body had suffered 70% burns by the time it was wrenched from the pyre and a post-mortem found ash in the respiratory tract, suggesting she was still breathing when she was cremated.

A hospital official told the us that “This happens when someone is burnt alive. The particles go inside with the breath. If a person is dead, such particles cannot reach the lungs and windpipe. So the doctors concluded that the woman was burnt alive on the pyre.”

Sisodia had been reported missing from her home in Bulandshahr in December. It is believed she left the family home to marry Chaudhary, who now claims he is being “framed” by her family.