Overview
- Police say 25-year-old nurse Anjali Sharma was strangled and her body was left outside the emergency ward of the Meerut medical college after she went to a ward attendant's home on Thursday.
- Investigators arrested the attendant's sister, identified as Sajida, who police say confessed during questioning and whose account helped identify the main suspect, ward attendant Sufiyan.
- Police allege the killing took place at the attendant's residence where Sharma was strangled with a dupatta and that the body was later moved in an e-rickshaw to the hospital entrance.
- Multiple police teams have been formed and are conducting raids while investigators gather CCTV footage, vehicle records and witness statements as part of the murder case registered on the family's complaint.
- Family members say Sharma faced repeated pressure and alleged stalking by the main accused to marry him, a claim police cite as motive and which underscores wider concerns about harassment of women in workplaces and public spaces.