Deprived of property, former ‘Miss Meerut’ Priyanka Choudhury was arrested on Monday and charged with murdering her parents last week after a dispute over family property. Her friend Anju, an accomplice in the bizarre double murder, has also been picked up by the cops.
Speaking to the media, Additional Superintendent of Police in Meerut, Rakesh Jolly, said the injuries on 70-year-old retired engineer Premveer and his wife Santosh, 65, indicate that the couple was repeatedly stabbed and then strangled.
Subsequent investigations zeroed in on Priyanka (29) after her brother Gaurav complained that all documents related to the property and other assets had gone missing since the deaths.
Priyanka was employed at an MNC in Meerut and lived separately in another part of the city.
Priyanka has apparently confessed to the crime. She told police that her parents’ decision to leave everything to her brother had enraged her. Jolly said Priyanka murdered her parents on November 11 after they refused to give her money. Gaurav was away in Bangalore at the time of the crime.
A raid at her apartment resulted in the recovery of nearly Rs 50,000 in cash, jewellery, bank passbooks, cheques and fixed-deposit certificates and other bonds worth Rs 7 lakh. All documents had her brother as beneficiary.
Anju, a close friend of Priyanka, was present when the elderly couple was murdered in their house in Meerut’s Prem Prayag area.
Both Priyanka and Anju are alumni of a polytechnic institute in South Delhi.
Priyanka was crowned ‘Miss Meerut’ three years ago, she first courted controversy after a soured relationship with Anju’s cousin Ajendra sometime ago.
She brought charges of rape against Ajendra and his uncle last year. In the FIR lodged by her mother, Priyanka had charged the duo of detaining and raping her in the Amroha area of Jyoti Ba Phule Nagar. The two had been arrested for the alleged rape.
Priyanka was employed at an MNC in Meerut, the police said.
Speaking to the media, Additional Superintendent of Police in Meerut, Rakesh Jolly, said the injuries on 70-year-old retired engineer Premveer and his wife Santosh, 65, indicate that the couple was repeatedly stabbed and then strangled.
Subsequent investigations zeroed in on Priyanka (29) after her brother Gaurav complained that all documents related to the property and other assets had gone missing since the deaths.
Priyanka was employed at an MNC in Meerut and lived separately in another part of the city.
Priyanka has apparently confessed to the crime. She told police that her parents’ decision to leave everything to her brother had enraged her. Jolly said Priyanka murdered her parents on November 11 after they refused to give her money. Gaurav was away in Bangalore at the time of the crime.
A raid at her apartment resulted in the recovery of nearly Rs 50,000 in cash, jewellery, bank passbooks, cheques and fixed-deposit certificates and other bonds worth Rs 7 lakh. All documents had her brother as beneficiary.
Anju, a close friend of Priyanka, was present when the elderly couple was murdered in their house in Meerut’s Prem Prayag area.
Both Priyanka and Anju are alumni of a polytechnic institute in South Delhi.
Priyanka was crowned ‘Miss Meerut’ three years ago, she first courted controversy after a soured relationship with Anju’s cousin Ajendra sometime ago.
She brought charges of rape against Ajendra and his uncle last year. In the FIR lodged by her mother, Priyanka had charged the duo of detaining and raping her in the Amroha area of Jyoti Ba Phule Nagar. The two had been arrested for the alleged rape.
Priyanka was employed at an MNC in Meerut, the police said.
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