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MEERUT: Three days after a man was found murdered in his sleep at the Mohiuddinpur area, 10 km from the city, Meerut police on Monday zeroed in on his 23-year-old daughter as the primary accused, who had connived with a friend on Facebook to murder her father with an aim to secure share in the family property.
According to police sources, the woman, identified only as Shikha, got her friend Himanshu Siwach, who she had met on the social media platform, to plan the crime. Siwach, along with two other unidentified men, shot the girl's father Manoj Kumar, 43, in his sleep on Friday morning.
Police had initially booked two of Kumar's cousins due to an ongoing enmity between them. Kumar's uncle was gunned down following a property dispute in Bulandshahr district three years ago.
"Due to a personal dispute between the brothers, our first suspects were Kumar's cousins," said Brijesh Singh, station house officer (SHO), Partapur police station.
Further investigations and phone surveillance records later revealed that Shikha had asked Siwach to eliminate her father.
"The deceased man's daughter wanted a share in the family property and got Siwach to commit the crime," said superintendent of police (SP), city, Maan Singh Chauhan.
Police also informed that Shikha, a B Com student, showed no emotion during the probe. "It was alleged that Kumar had an illicit relationship with his sister-in-law and his daughter was against it," informed SP Chauhan.
According to family sources, Kumar had three children with his sister-in-law and Shikha was against sharing a 400 bigha land with them.
"Father used to ignore my mother and he had an affair with my aunt. I could not tolerate this. I have no regrets," said Shikha, with a stoic expression on her face.
