MEERUT:
Anita Prajapati
,
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, a mother of three, was milking a cow in the shed outside her house in Bulandshahr's Jatwai village early morning on Wednesday when three men arrived at the cowshed.
She presumed they had come to purchase milk and was getting ready to give it to them when they pumped bullets into her, killing her instantly. The
woman
's husband is a farmer and the family was at home when the incident happened.
Villagers, on hearing the commotion, managed to catch hold of one of the men, who later told police that he was part of a gang of contract killers, who had been hired by the woman's neighbour to kill her.
On interrogation, the man told police that Prajapati's neighbour,
Charanjeet Singh, 20, had suspected the woman of practising witchcraft and was afraid that she would do 'something bad' to him. He further claimed that Singh's father had died of cancer last year and he believed that the disease had come about because of his neighbour's 'witchcraft.'
Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Bulandshahr,
Santosh Singh, said that the contract killers had struck a Rs 2 lakh deal with the woman's neighbour for killing her and had received Rs 50,000 in advance from him. "As part of the plan, they had started purchasing milk from Prajapati and were waiting for the right moment to kill her." The SSP added, "An FIR of murder has been filed against the neighbour and the three contract killers. Police teams have been formed to nab the other suspects who are on the run."
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