A 26-year-old woman was murdered by two unidentified motorcycle-borne gunmen in a busy area near Karan Gate police post under the jurisdiction of Sahibabad police station in Ghaziabad on Thursday around 1 pm.
Police said the woman identified as Riya Chakraworthad was riding her scooty towards her residence in Kanha Complex when two criminals fired two shots on her on the main Wazirabad Road near Hindon Air Force station and fled the spot.
The sound of gunfire attracted locals, who informed police and rushed the victim to a nearby Ambe Hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead.
The doctors found one bullet lodged in her chest and one had pierced through her abdomen. Preliminary investigation revealed that she was living alone in her Kanha Complex apartment in Sahibabad. After migrating from Rudrapur in Uttarakhand, she was married to one dog breeder Jag Pravesh Panwar in 2011 in Delhi and had started living in Sahibabad. A girl child was born to them on March 11, 2012.
A police officer said her husband committed suicide on May 11, 2015 and her daughter was being taken care of by her father-in-law. Her father-in-law Chap Singh Panwar lodged a complaint with police against unidentified persons for the murder.
“We have registered a complaint and investigation has been taken up. There are some leads in the case and police teams are working on that,” said PRO to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ghaziabad, HN Singh.