Daughter of Hathras DM’s driver shot dead, mother claims domestic dispute behind murder

A 24-year-old woman was allegedly shot dead by two unidentified bike-borne assailants in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras Saturday. The victim was identified as Kalpita Sharma, the daughter of Hathras District Magistrate Rahul Pandey’s driver Rakesh Kumar Sharma. The shooting took place at the Sadar tehsil area on Saturday, as the woman and her mother were returning home on a scooter after shopping, said the police.

“The attackers stopped their bike right in front of us and shot my daughter. Our scooter fell. My daughter died on the spot,” Kalpita’s mother told the police.

The mother claimed the killing was orchestrated by her daughter-in-law, Jyoti Sharma, and the man who shot her daughter dead bullet was Jyoti’s lover. She alleged that her daughter-in-law’s lover had stolen a revolver from their house two days ago. Her son married Jyoti Sharma over two years ago, and there was an ongoing domestic dispute, she said.