Overview

• Twenty-four-year-old IAS aspirant Manvi Mishra was found shot at her parents’ home in Aliyapur village in Hardoi district.
• Investigators reported the bullet entered from the left side while a pistol was found in her right hand, contradicting a suicide narrative.
• Her husband filed a complaint, and police registered a murder case under section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
• Police arrested her brother, Ashutosh Mishra (Veeru), and mother, Choti Bitya, recovered a country-made pistol, and cited a custodial confession by the brother.
• Officers say the killing was allegedly motivated by family opposition to her January Arya Samaj marriage to Bareilly school principal Abhinav Katiyar.