Meerut highway robbers kill Ghaziabad bride

After dragging the injured woman outside, they drove away with the loot and the car.

Shahzeb and his family members informed their relatives, who were travelling in two more cars through a different route, about the incident. They arrived on the spot and took Farhana to the Muzaffarnagar medical college, about 25km away, where doctors declared her brought dead. Police launched a manhunt for the robbers and examined CCTV footage at petrol pumps and Western UP toll roads to identify them.

Manzil Saini, senior superintendent of police, Meerut, said the police had identified the criminals’ car after examining the CCTV footage of the toll barrier on NH-58. “Four criminals were seen travelling in a car. They used a fake number plate,” she said. “We have formed four teams to investigate and arrest the culprits,” said Saini.

She said evidences gathered by the police showed the robbers’ intention was to rob jewellery and the car in which the wedding party was travelling. “It was a new Swift Dzire car that the groom’s family had hired to take the newly-weds home in Muzaffarnagar after the wedding in a Ghaziabad village,” she said.

The incident has again raised questions about the safety and security of commuters on NH 58 which connects Delhi to Dehradun.police had claimed that security on highways in Uttar Pradesh had been tightened after the rape of a mother and her minor daughter off the highway in Bulandshahr in July 2016. Friday’ night’s robbery and murder have shown that night-time travel isn’t entirely safe.