MEERUT HIGHWAY ROBBERS MURDER GHAZIABAD BRIDE, STEAL JEWELLERY
MEERUT: Armed robbers shot dead a newlywed bride after looting her and her husband of cash and jewellery — which they mistakenly thought was gold — and drove away their car near a village on National Highway 58 on Friday night i n yet another reminder that highway travel at night in western Uttar Pradesh can be perilous.
Police said Shahzeb, a resident of Mimlana road in Muzaffarnagar, and his bride, Farhana of Nahal village in Ghaziabad ,were on their way home along with Shahzeb’s family members. They stopped for food at a roadside eatery near Partapur on NH 58. When they resumed their journey around 11 pm, four men in a car with fake number plates started chasing them and overtook their vehicle near village Mataur, barely a kilometre from Daurala police station.
An initial probe revealed that both the bride and the groom were from relatively poor families and the bride was wearing artificial jewellery, which the criminals thought was made of gold, the police said.
They held the victims at gunpoint and ordered them to hand over cash and jewellery. One of the robbers approached Farhana, who was sitting inside the car, and asked for her jewellery. As the bride started screaming in fear, the robbers shot her to silence her, the police said. In today’s edition, Sports pages appear from 2 to 5 and Metro from 18 to 23.
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