A 23-year-old woman, who worked as a trainee engineer with a mobile manufacturing company lava, was shot dead by allegedly by her boyfriend at Shatabdi Rail Vihar residential society in Sector 62 of Noida at 6.34 am on Wednesday.
Police suspect the victim’s boyfriend was behind the crime as the deceased, identified as Anjali Rathour, a native of Jagadhri near Yamuna Nagar in Haryana, had received a call from his number around 6 am on Wednesday.
The CCTV camera installed near the elevators captured the crime scene in which the shooter is seen chasing her before putting her down, but he has not been identified yet, police said. Rathour was found lying in a pool of blood by locals. Her roommate Jyoti was leaving for her coaching classes and saw people gathered on the ground floor. When she went near, she found her bleeding profusely.
Jyoti immediately went to their third-floor apartment and alerted four other roommates about the incident. They managed to take the victim to the nearby Fortis Hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead. Her family and relatives were informed about the incident. They reached Noida in the afternoon and the body was sent for a post-mortem examination.
A case under IPC Section 302 (punishment for murder) has been registered at the Sector 58 police station and probe has begun.
Rathour graduated from lovely Professional University in Jalandhar in 2016 and was placed in lava from the campus last June.
Her family members have alleged that she was killed by a friend, who hails from Etawah in Uttar Pradesh. He had studied with her at the university and Rathour’s phone records showed a call from him. Arun Singh, the Superintendent of Police (City), said, “The man who shot her hasn’t been identified. How she received bullet has been recorded. We are probing the matter from all angles.”