Overview

• The shooting took place on June 11 at around 10 pm near Sikroda canal in the Civil Lines police station area of Morena district.
• Gyan Singh Gurjar, a retired soldier who lost both of his sons within 18 months, had been pressuring Priyanka to wed his nephew Dhruv after her husband’s death on June 9.
• Priyanka Gurjar returned to her in-laws’ home with her three young children four days before the incident following a year of widowhood.
• Police say Priyanka died on the spot from a country-made firearm and they have charged Gurjar with murder while he remains at large.
• Authorities have launched a manhunt and are treating the case as an alleged honor killing driven by a family remarriage dispute.