Woman loves her cousin, killed husband with his help, murdered
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In a suspected case of honor killing, a woman was shot dead allegedly by her cousin in Haiderpur village, Muzaffarnagar, police said today. Shivani was killed on Sunday, after her cousin, Sumit Kumar, found that she was in an illicit relationship with another cousin of hers, Anuj, and that she along with him had killed her husband, Happi, they further said. Here's more.
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Kumar has confessed to crime, said Shivani tarnished family's image
Kumar has confessed to killing his sister and said he did it as she had tarnished the family's image, Superintendent of Police, Rural, Alok Sharma, said. Shivani and Anuj were named in her husband's murder case on Sunday, he said. Happi was shot dead on March 4 when he was returning from his in-laws' house on a motorcycle, police said.
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Shivani killed two hours after being named in Happi's murder-case
Happi was killed just days after his marriage to Shivani on February 28. The woman's body was sent for post mortem. She was shot dead with a country-made pistol, two hours after she was named in her husband's murder case, the officer said.