PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE /Dehradun In a sensational incident, a young woman was brutally murdered in broad daylight in one of the busiest markets of provisional State capital Dehradun on Monday. Police said that a 23-year-old woman called Gunjan had been attacked by one Ashok Kumar (27) when she was on her way to work on Ansari Marg, Dulha Bazaar near Paltan Bazaar at around 10 AM. The assailant slit her throat with a sharp-edged chopper. She was rushed to Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) Hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead. Soon after receiving information about the incident, police arrested the accused and recovered the murder weapon. Following the incident, the shop-owners shut down their shops in Paltan Bazaar, saying that the police had not acted enough to prevent the chilling crime. The senior superintendent of police (SSP) Dehradun, Ajai Singh said that the accused is a married man with a child. The accused and the deceased had been friends earlier and had known each other for the past two years, he said, adding that they had not been on talking terms for some time. Importantly, Gunjan’s parents said that the girl had filed a complaint against the accused at Khurbura Chowki on January 31, stating that he had been threatening to kill her. The police had not taken the complaint seriously, ending up in her murder, her parents alleged. Explaining things, SSP said that after the complaint was received, the police had tried to contact the accused on his mobile phone, but his phone had been found switched off. Thereafter, the local police had gone to his house, where the accused’s wife had informed them that he had not returned home for the last two days. “This was followed by the crime on Monday,” Singh said. With the parents having strongly objected to photo and video of the victim being shared on social media, police said that strict action would be taken against anyone found sharing the deceased girl’s photo and video on social media. 3 murders in 5 days shock Doon residents DEHRADUN: The provisional capital of Uttarakhand, Dehradun has witnessed three back to back murders committed in less than a week, leaving residents feeling insecure. On Thursday, a young woman was purportedly killed by her cousin in Vikasnagar. The accused is still at large. Likewise, on Saturday, an assistant working in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh was shot dead by a man. Incidentally, two out of these three gruesome murders are linked to love having gone sour.
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