Wife, daughter and their lovers kill Meerut farmer

A woman and her daughter conspired with their respective lovers to murder the former's husband (also the latter's father), a 45-year-old farmer, Subhash, who was found critically injured in his field on June 23 with a gunshot wound to his lower back and succumbed to his injuries the following morning.

- HT Correspondent

Police could not record his statement before the death of Subhash.

What initially seemed like an unsolved case of assault took a dramatic turn when the police, on July 6, arrested Subhash’s wife Kavita, daughter Sonam, their respective lovers Gulzar and Vipin Singh, and a fifth accomplice, Ajgar alias Shubham Kumar.

Subhash lived in Jani Khurd’s Bhupgarhi village with his wife Kavita and four children. His oldest, a married daughter; his second daughter Sonam, a BA final-year student at Kanohar Lal PG College in Meerut; and two sons, one in Class 10 and the other in Class 11.

Sonam, police officials said, was in a secret relationship with Vipin, a milk vendor from Brahmpuri. She first met him near her college, and their relationship intensified through Telegram and other social media platforms. Meanwhile Kavita was in an extramarital relationship with Gulzar, a local farmer whose fields adjoined the family’s.