Enraged sons of remarried woman kill her husband, e-rickshaw driver in UP's Meerut

After her second marriage, Geeta started living with her husband Arvind outside their village in UP's Meerut as her sons from her first marriage were not happy with the new alliance. The husband was shot dead along with the e-rickshaw driver in the indiscriminate firing launched by the accused in Meerut's Hastinapur area.

Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) : Sons of a woman, who were upset with her remarriage, opened fire on her second husband, killing him along with the driver of the e-rickshaw in which he was travelling. The accused launched the attack when their target was travelling in the e-rickshaw at the Saifpur Karamchand tri-section in Hastinapur area of Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district, police said.

The two victims, one of them being the e-rickshaw driver, were shot at by motorcycle-borne people nearly 30 km from the district headquarters. According to police reports, Surendra, 40, was driving his e-rickshaw, and Arvind, 22, who was sitting in it as a passenger, were shot at by three to four men. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Rohit Singh Sajwan, said that both were rushed to a nearby hospital, where they succumbed to gunshot wounds.

According to a complaint filed by Arvind's family, Arvind had married a woman named Geeta in 2021 after the death of her first husband. Geeta had got married in 2002 to a man from Hastinapur who died in 2020. After their marriage, the two started living together outside their village since Geeta's sons from her first marriage, and also her brother-in-law, were not happy with the new alliance.

Arvind's brother and Geeta in their complaint to police alleged that Arvind was shot dead because of their marriage. The SSP said a case has been registered against Geeta's sons and the sons of her brother-in-law, and two teams have been formed to arrest the bike-borne assailants and other people involved in the murders. The e-rickshaw driver was killed in indiscriminate firing. (with agency inputs)