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girl murdered by her own family members

Pioneer News Service

The body of a girl which was recovered on last Sunday in Kithore locality of Meerut was murdered by her own family members just in the name of Rs family pride’.

The sensational fact came to light when the cops arrested three family members including the father who were involved in the honour killing on Thursday morning. All the three were later send to jail. Reports said that body of an unknown girl in her early twenties was recovered from a secluded place in Kithore locality of Meerut on last Sunday. The local police who registered a case and send the body for post-mortem examination managed to maintain her identity as Shobha, a resident of Bhagwanpur locality of Kithore. During further investigations, the cops learnt that Shobha had eloped with one Rahul, a resident of same locality on May 11 last.

Her father Vinod lodged a case in this regard after which the cops launched a massive hunt andmanaged to recover the girl from the clutches of the accused and had also arrested Rahul and send him to jail. Rahul is still in jail as he failed to get bail in the matter. Reports further said that as the father of the girl was not happy with the move of Shobha so in front of policemen he threatened her with dire consequences. Suspecting that Vinod might be involved in the crime, the cops finally picked him up on Thursday morning and grilled him. After three hours of interrogation,  Vinod broke down and confessed to have murdered his daughter Shobha just as he was not happy with her over her affair with  Rahul. The cops also arrested two more of the kin of Vinod, identified as lekhraj and Bheem Singh, who both too have confessed of their involvement in the crime.

Meanwhile Agra police also made a breakthrough when they recovered the body of a businessman missing since a fortnight last and arrested four of the accused. Reports said that Vijay Kumar Saksena, a resident of Naglapadi hamlet of New Agra, lodged a report with the  local police on June 1 last and informed that his son Jitendra Kumar Saksena had went out on his motorcycle and was missing. On June 2, his body was recovered near Transport nagar in Hariparwat locality since then. Jitendra was last seen in the local market by some neighbours. During probe . The victim was engaged in money lending business due to which some of his rivals were not very happy.

The cops developed the information and found that Jitendra was shot dead. later they also managed to identify four of the killers as Dharmesh Kumar, Mahesh, Neeraj and Rajesh Jail. They subsequently arrested all the four on Thursday morning and after being grilling by the cops, they also confessed of the murder. The accused revealed that since the victim was also engaged in money lending business in lower interest rates so after seeing that their interest has been hit  they  decided to eliminiate  him.