: A woman was beaten to death by miscreants during the wedding ceremony of her daughter at Salepalli village under the Melchhamunda police station in Bargarh district on Thursday night.
The deceased was identified as Kishori Rajhans of Salepalli .
According to reports, the wedding of Rashmi , daughter of Jadumani and Kishori was being held, when the groom of Badmal village reached the wedding venue in a procession.
Sources said that some unruly youth of Salepali created ruckus during the procession when people from groom’s side were dancing to music. They attacked Kishori with sticks when she tried to intervene. She died on the spot.
On receiving information, police reached the village and sent the body to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) for postmortem and are investigating into the incident.
The accused targeted Kishori over past enmity due to some reason, alleged the deceased woman’s husband Jadumani.
