On 14 June 2016 Anu Bansal from Bulandshahr, India, received 80% burns to her body and died at Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, a few days later. In July 2022, her husband, Manoj Bansal, was found guilty of killing her for "not giving birth to a son". Background Anu Bansal was born to Omwati Devi of Bulandshahr, India. She married Manoj Bansal in 2000. Latika and Tanya are their daughters. Incident and investigation On 14 June 2016 Bansal received 80% burns to her body and died at Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi on 20 June. A first information report (FIR) was filed under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which the police later changed to 306 (suicide). The case was reopened two months later, following a letter written by Latika to the then chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, who subsequently recruited senior officials to take on the case. The letter stated that their father and his family burnt their mother alive. The letter also stated that the police deliberately changed the cause from "murder" to "suicide". Lawyer Sanjay Sharma, represented the daughters, who recounted in court that their father was frequently abusive both psychologically and physically to their mother for the reason that she gave birth to daughters and not sons. The court was informed that she had been forced to terminate pregnancies after illegal sex determination tests showed that she was pregnant with a female fetus. The girls stated in their testimony that "At 6:30am, we were woken up by the cries of our mother. We couldn't help her because the door of our room was locked from the outside. We watched her burn". According to Latika they called the local police and ambulance services but were "ignored". They then called their maternal uncle and grandmother who transferred her to a hospital. Verdict In 2022 Manoj Bansal was found guilty of killing his wife Anu Bansal for "not giving birth to a son". He received life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 20,000. At the time of sentencing, he was 48 years old. Responses The Times of India followed the story from 2016 to 2022. The verdict questioned the cultural preference for sons. The BBC News reported the verdict in 2022, stating that Bulandshahr's court "agreed that Bansal was guilty of killing his wife" for want of a son, based on a belief "rooted in a widely-held cultural belief