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In a suspected case of honour killing, a 22-year-old woman was shot dead at Alipur Atrena village in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district on Wednesday evening, two years after she married a man belonging to a lower caste against her family’s wishes.
The woman was allegedly killed by her brothers who are absconding and raids are being conducted to nab them, the police said. Five persons, including four of her family members, have been arrested while raids are on to arrest others, officials said.
An FIR in this connection was lodged at the Budhana police station by the victim’s husband against 13 persons, including her four brothers, their wives and an unmarried brother. The rest of the accused are the family’s neighbours, it is learnt.
“The FIR was lodged under Sections 302 (murder),147 (guilty of rioting), 148 (being armed with a deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly) of the Indian Penal Code. We have arrested Salma (38), Sania, alias Bhuri (34), Sonia (39), Tabassum (30) and Farman (41) while raids are being conducted to nab the rest of the eight named in the FIR ,” said Brijesh Sharma, the in-charge of the Budhana police station.
The police said that Farhana, who belonged to the Pathan caste, had married Shahid, 28, from the Faqir caste (Other Backward Class), in a Muzaffarnagar court in August 2021. The couple fled the village soon after their wedding as they feared a threat to their lives from her family members and were living in Muzaffarnagar town for the last two years, the police said.
The police said the couple came to their native village on June 7. At around 6 pm on Wednesday, when Farhana was returning to her in-laws’ place from a parlour, two assailants shot her dead near the trijunction near the village post office, they said. She was hit on the head and declared brought dead at the hospital.
“It is a case of honour killing as her family members could not tolerate their daughter getting married to a man from a lower caste. The victim’s body has been handed over to her in-laws,” Sharma added.
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