In a bizarre killing in Bulandshahr, a 22-year-old youth smashed his aunt's head with a hammer and left her to die after she refused to give him money and her car for a trip to Ladakh.

The incident came to light when the victim Satviri’s husband, Gajveer Singh, returned home from a wedding late Sunday night and found her body lying in a pool of blood with severe injury marks on her head.

Bulandshahr’s Senior Superintendent of Police Shlok Kumar, said, “A police team with a sniffer dog was sent to the crime scene. The sniffer dog stealthily went via the house’s roof and reached a room where Sagar, the nephew, was present along with his friends, and started barking at him. Suspecting his involvement in the crime, the police took him into custody for questioning and he was later arrested.”

During questioning, Sagar told the police that he had smashed his aunt’s head with a hammer and left her to die after she refused to give him money and car keys to take his girlfriend on a trip to Ladakh. A senior police officer said the body was sent for autopsy and a case of murder registered on the basis of a complaint against the accused.

Sagar had earlier worked as a merchant marine for some time and had returned home about a year ago.

The SSP said, “Sagar at first tried to mislead the police by levelling allegations of murder on a local person. But the policemen noticed a few blood stains on his shirt. When they questioned him again, he confessed.”

In Hamirpur’s Rath Kotwali area on Sunday, four youths shot a student who was studying in the courtyard of the house. The bullet hit the student in the stomach. The relatives took him to the community health centre where the doctors pronounced the student dead.

Police started the investigation. Circle Officer PK Singh reached the community health centre and enquired about the incident from the student's father.

Santosh Raikwar, a resident of Sadar village of Rath Kotwali area, said that his 17-year-old son Harishchandra, was studying in 11th standard in Basela village. He claimed that on Sunday evening he was working on the farm with his wife Mithla when four youths of the village -- Baghraj, Pramod, Shivam and Rajkumar -- entered the house and shot his son, who was studying in the courtyard.

The bullet hit Harishchandra's stomach and he fell on the spot. The accused absconded after the incident.

On getting information from the neighbors, Harishchandra’s relatives took him to the community health centre, where the doctors pronounced him `dead’.

Santosh said that he had a rivalry with some people of the village for a long time and suspected that the same was the reason behind the killing of his son.

Police started investigating the matter and sent the body for post-mortem.

Meanwhile, a newly-married woman died of suffocation after inhaling gas which leaked from a geyser in Meerut.

The woman had gone to a bathroom at her in-laws' house to take a shower and remained there for quite some time. When the family members tried to check on her and got no response, they broke open the door and found her lying unconscious in a corner. She was rushed to a hospital where the doctor pronounced her dead.

A case was registered and the body was sent for autopsy.