New Delhi: A man from a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli was arrested on charges of killing his 18-year-old daughter and setting her body on fire because she was in a relationship with a man from a different caste.According to the Indian Express, the 56-year-old man – a farmer named Pramod Kumar – confessed to the police that he committed the crime. Superintendent of Police (Shamli) Abhishek told the newspaper that Pramod, who is from an upper caste, planned the murder after his daughter refused to break up with a 20-year-old man from a lower caste.“Pramod said that a few days ago, his daughter left home with the 20-year-old youth without informing the family. She returned home on her own, a day after. Fearing social stigma, he decided to kill her. On the intervening night of September 9 and 10, he took his daughter to a field on the pretext of some work. He strangled her to death and set her body on fire,” Pankaj Tyagi, SHO of Jhijhana Police Station, told IE.Pramod told the other members of his family that he had left the daughter at his brother’s house in Panipat.On Friday evening, the police control room received information about a burnt human body in a field. The police seized the bones from the ashes and forensic experts and a dog squad were called in to investigate the death. The evidence pointed to Kumar’s involvement and he was arrested, according to reports.