In a horrifying incident in Agra, a 20-year-old woman was murdered and her body was set on fire by her boyfriend and his father after a nasty dispute on Thursday. The victim's half-burnt body was found on Jalesar road of Khandauli police station area.
As per reports, victim Khusboo's father, constable Veerpal, is posted on the PRV of UP 112 in Mathura's Sadar area and he registered a case of disappearance of his daughter at Etmaddaulah police station.
On the fateful day, Khushboo had gone to her boyfriend's house where his father was also present. There an argument flared up between the trio and the boyfriend, in a fit of rage, murdered her. The assailant and his father then took the victim's body to an isolated area and torched it after pouring petrol.
The police arrested the father-son duo and recovered the deceased victim's mobile phone.
Further investigations are underway.
Elsewhere in Etawah, a 19-year-old girl ended her life after her family settled her marriage without her finishing education in Kashiram Colony.
Torn between her dream of a career and her family's pressure to get married, Priyanka hanged herself from the ceiling in her house.
The deceased was to start attending Class 12 this year but her family was bent upon getting her married. When her fervent pleas of letting her complete her education fell on deaf ears, she decided to end her life.
Her father works as a labourer to support the family.
In Meerut, Shubham Kashyap (27) was called by his friends to a liquor party where he was later beaten to death in Mawana area on Thursday night. The victim was rushed to a community health centre in Mawana where doctors pronounced him dead. Later, the police were able to arrest one of his friends.
In his complaint, Shubham's father Mukesh Kashyap said that Pankaj Chaudhary and Batakh took his son to take a bath at a tube well and they consumed liquor. Eyewitnesses claimed that the trio later engaged in a scuffle during which Shubham was attacked with sharp-weapons as a result of which he died.
A passerby informed the victim’s family about the gruesome murder. Later the family rushed him to a hospital but in vain.
In Aligarh, journalist Mukesh Gupta working with a private news channel was shot at by unidentified assailants at a restaurant on Thursday night. He was rushed to Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College hospital.
Another journalist, Pramod Kumar, who was present at the spot said, “The assailant walked up to us and asked us to move out of the way while he threatened to put Mukesh in the proper place. He placed his pistol on Mukesh's neck and later fired towards his lower abdomen. The unidentified gunman chased Pramod and two other journalists present there but they managed to escape and informed the police.
A case was registered and the police launched a manhunt for the shooter.