Overview
- The shooting in Basdila Buzurg village in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar left an 18-year-old woman and her brother-in-law dead on Wednesday morning.
- Police identified the man as 27-year-old Jitendra Prasad from Bihar’s Gopalganj district and the victim as Naina Kumari.
- Prasad had married Naina’s sister about 11 months earlier and had stayed overnight at his in-laws’ home before the deaths.
- Family members and neighbors reported gunshots from a room locked from inside, and officers broke the door to find both with firearm injuries.
- A forensic team examined the scene, the Sub-Divisional Magistrate joined police on site, and investigators say post-mortem results will guide the motive inquiry.