Ghaziabad: Man held for killing his niece on New Year’s Eve
Hindustan TimesA 35-year-old man was arrested on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday for his alleged involvement in the murder of a 26-year-old woman whose body was found at the Podium Park adjacent to the Vaishali Metro station in Ghaziabad on New Year’s Day, During interrogation, the man told police that the woman was pressuring him to leave his family and get married to her. Police said the man was arrested following a brief gunfight with police near the Vaishali culvert early Monday. Police said he opened fire at the police team around 1.30am and was shot in the leg in the retaliatory fire near the Vaishali culvert, said officers. The woman’s family told police they suspected the role of her uncle, Neeraj Singh, a father of four and an FIR was registered at Kaushambi police station.