My, my, Jas
Now you're a fan of Ramji-ki-banji? 😲 Now, I've seen everything (I think 😆)
But these are very good points - whether Rupesh cheated them or not is tangential to the question of whether they attempted to burn Bharti, and it just strengthens, not weakens, the case against them. Also, since when is lying to somebody to get them to marry your daughter a criminal offense? But if Bharti died, far from getting the haveli, Murli & family would be in jail, unless they could demonstrate their innocence, not Rupesh's conniving nature!
I dunno how Rupesh created any doubts - he told them the whole truth - he had no idea what happened to Bharti since he was in another room. But yeah, he should have pointed out to them that Murli saved Bharti. Since he didn't, now Murli is brazenly lying about him, and his entire family, including Mridala, were shocked @ his statement, but his lie has landed Lalaji in jail. 😆
I agree that Murli would have returned all that money & property - he was willing to, when he found out that Mridala had sold their old home and still had that money. They really ought to repossess that, even by filing a fraud claim against Mridala - at least one real charge to get someone in jail. In fact, throughout, Bansi, Murli, Kamala & even Veena were against taking such favors: only Mridala & Dumroo were for it. And now, it's come back to bite them in the hiney!
And you're right on your last point as well. Prakash's was an arranged marriage - it's not like he was some boyfriend of Veena's. So it didn't make sense to go into a full scale war w/ Bharti on this basis. If they wanted to punish her, they could have allowed Prakash to be removed, and then put on Bharti the responsibility of finding a groom for Veena.
Tonight, when Bhushan tells them about Lalaji's arrest, I hope he tells Bansi & Murli about what they found about Prakash, since Lalaji had been too hot headed to tell them. And hopefully, let Murli confront Prakash and find out Mridala's complete plot. In fact, if Prakash is arrested and has to confess it all to the police, Mridala would be back in the slammer, and Bansi et al would have to go down on all 4s in front of Bharti, b4 she hopefully ends the marriage!