Perturbed over the extra- marital affair of his father with a 26-year-old woman, the son, a high school student studying in Class XI, allegedly shot the woman with assistance from one of his friends studying in Class XII.
Roorkee police were startled as the murder case was solved. They arrested the 16-year-old boy and one of his friends on Tuesday and recovered a firearm from his possession with which he allegedly did in the woman.
On Sunday morning, Sandhya Bhatia who worked in an automobile showroom was shot dead by two bike-borne persons in broad day light when she came out of her house to fetch milk from the market.
According to the police, the victim was living alone away from her parents in Nehru Colony under the jurisdiction of Gangnahar police station. They said she had to live alone as her parents were not happy with the relation she had with a married man. She chose to take a room on rent, sharing it with a friend.
Revealing the case, SHO Gangnahar police station Jawahar lal said, “The woman worked as a manager in an automobile showroom in Roorkee. She had lived in the house of one Arvind as a paying guest for a year, but she was chucked out following a dispute with the family members of the house owner. The son was angered with his mother and father
quarreling almost daily with the latter having an extra-marital affair. To end all this, the son planned to kill the woman.”