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Husband in Greater Noida dowry murder case was arrested on Saturday and was shot in leg when he attempted to escape custody. A report has revealed the trigger for wife’s murder.
Greater Noida murder case: Accused husband killed wife over Instagram reels, says report (ANI Image)
The gruesome killing of a 28-year-old woman, Nikki, in Greater Noida, allegedly by her husband, Vipin Bhati, took place after an altercation over her posting reels on Instagram and her insistence on reopening a beauty parlour she ran earlier, the police said after the interrogation of the accused, according to a report.
Vipin was arrested on Saturday for the crime he committed on August 21 at his residence, where he allegedly assaulted his wife and set her on fire to death. When he was being taken by the cops to recover flammable material that he used to set the woman ablaze, he attempted to flee from custody, prompting the police to shoot him in his leg during the encounter, the police said.
Nikki’s mother-in-law, Daya Bhati, 55, was also arrested yesterday.
The police stated that on August 21, Nikki had demanded the reopening of the beauty parlour she had previously run, which triggered a fight with her husband.
“Investigation revealed that around 3.30 pm, Nikki told Vipin that she and her sister would reopen the parlour. When he refused, Nikki said that no one could stop them from reopening, which Bhati opposed,” Kasna station house officer Dharmendra Shukla said, Hindustan Times reported.
“Vipin told her that in their family, posting reels on Instagram and running a parlour were not allowed. The issue turned ugly, and he started assaulting her,” the outlet quoted Shukla as saying.
Kanchan, Nikki’s elder sister, was married to the same family and is a witness to the murder. She earlier described the horrific sequence of events on Thursday night. “That same evening, they brutally assaulted my sister in front of me and the children. They then threw some liquid on her and set her ablaze in front of my eyes. I tried to save her, but I could not,” she said earlier.
The two sisters were reportedly active on Instagram and YouTube, as they ran a channel for the parlour with the name ‘Makeover by Kannchan’, HT reported.
The Instagram account contains 54,500 followers, while Kanchan’s personal account has 22k followers. Nikki’s account is private and has 1,147 followers. They actively posted content, including videos, and had garnered over 2.9 million views, the report said.
Nikki’s brother Rohit Gurjar said that their family had invested Rs 8 lakh in Nikki’s beauty parlour nearly one-and-a-half years ago, as Vipin and his brother were unemployed.
“The family runs a small grocery shop from their home. My sisters were independently bearing their children’s expenses without asking for money from their husbands. The in-laws were also against their parlour business and damaged the entire parlour in February this year,” the victim’s brother said.
Ashesh Mallick is a Sub-Editor with over three years of experience in news writing, video production. He primarily covers national news, politics and global affairs. You can follow him on Twitter: @MallickAshes…Read More
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