<p>Lucknow: In a shocking incident, a woman allegedly got her prospective groom murdered a day before wedding in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/uttar-pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</a>’s Rampur district.</p><p>According to the police sources here, the woman, identified as Gulafshan, a resident of Dhanupura village in the district, allegedly got her would be groom Nihal, a resident of the same district, murdered by her lover, a day before their wedding.</p><p>The police recovered the body of Nihal from a forested area in Azimnagar on Sunday and arrested two persons, including Gulafshan's 'lover', identified as Saddam.</p><p>Police said that two motorcycle borne youth came to Nihal’s residence and introduced themselves as cousins of the bride. They took Nihal away on the pretext of purchasing a dress for him.</p><p>A search was launched for Nihal when he did not return home till late in the night, police said.</p>.Honeymoon murder: Victim's kin demand narco test on Sonam's parents, brother.<p>Acting on the basis of CCTV footage the police apprehended Saddam and his accomplice on Monday.</p><p>Sources said that Saddam tried to escape after snatching the pistol of one of the cops and fired on the police but was injured in retaliatory firing.</p><p>Nihal’s brother lodged a complaint with the police naming Gulafshan behind the murder, sources said.</p><p>Police said that they were investigating the role of Gulafshan in the killing. ‘’We are probing the incident….more arrests are likely in the case,’’ said an official in Rampur.</p><p>The incident comes close on the heels of the murder of Indore resident Raja Raghuvanshi by the killers allegedly hired by his wife Sonam, in Meghalaya a few days back. Sonam is in police custody.</p>
<p>Lucknow: In a shocking incident, a woman allegedly got her prospective groom murdered a day before wedding in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/uttar-pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</a>’s Rampur district.</p><p>According to the police sources here, the woman, identified as Gulafshan, a resident of Dhanupura village in the district, allegedly got her would be groom Nihal, a resident of the same district, murdered by her lover, a day before their wedding.</p><p>The police recovered the body of Nihal from a forested area in Azimnagar on Sunday and arrested two persons, including Gulafshan's 'lover', identified as Saddam.</p><p>Police said that two motorcycle borne youth came to Nihal’s residence and introduced themselves as cousins of the bride. They took Nihal away on the pretext of purchasing a dress for him.</p><p>A search was launched for Nihal when he did not return home till late in the night, police said.</p>.Honeymoon murder: Victim's kin demand narco test on Sonam's parents, brother.<p>Acting on the basis of CCTV footage the police apprehended Saddam and his accomplice on Monday.</p><p>Sources said that Saddam tried to escape after snatching the pistol of one of the cops and fired on the police but was injured in retaliatory firing.</p><p>Nihal’s brother lodged a complaint with the police naming Gulafshan behind the murder, sources said.</p><p>Police said that they were investigating the role of Gulafshan in the killing. ‘’We are probing the incident….more arrests are likely in the case,’’ said an official in Rampur.</p><p>The incident comes close on the heels of the murder of Indore resident Raja Raghuvanshi by the killers allegedly hired by his wife Sonam, in Meghalaya a few days back. Sonam is in police custody.</p>