Two men kill elder brother after latter’s daughter marries without family’s consent

Meerut | Tuesday | 17th July, 2018

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Muzaffarnagar: In a case of a family tiff gone horribly wrong, two men allegedly shot dead their elder brother with a country-Made pistol after a heated argument in the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. A case has been registered against the two brothers under IPC section 302 (murder) and police are trying to find Subhash. The body of the deceased man has been sent for postmortem.”Officials said that the country-made pistol used by the accused has been seized. Since the police team acted promptly and reached the crime spot within six minutes of the incident, it was rewarded by SP Anantdev Tiwari rewarded police team for reaching on the spot within 6 minutes, said sources. The incident was reported from Muzaffarnagar’s Salhakhedi village under Titavi police jurisdiction.According to police, Babloo Kumar and Subhash Kumar shot dead their elder brother Manoj Kumar, 45, after having an argument over the latter’s daughter, who got married to a local youth without the family’s consent.While Babloo, who sustained a head injury in the quarrel and was referred to a hospital in Delhi, was arrested, Subhash is still at large.Titavi police station SHO Sube Singh said, “Police reached the crime spot within minutes of the incident and rushed the injured man to a nearby hospital..