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Alka Devi, 42, was unaware that the hitman was her daughter’s lover. (Representational image)
According to the police, the woman, Alka Devi, had offered Rs 50,000 to the hitman, a 38-year-old man named Subhash
In Uttar Pradesh, a 42-year-old woman irritated by her daughter’s love affairs had hired a hitman to kill her but in a twist of fate, the hitman, turned out to be the lover and instead murdered the woman.
The bizarre incident occurred on October 6, when the woman’s body was found in a millet field near the Jasrathpur police station in the Etah district of Uttar Pradesh.
According to the police, the woman, Alka Devi, had offered Rs 50,000 to the hitman, a 38-year-old man named Subhash. She was unaware that Subhash was her daughter’s lover, as per NDTV report.
On October 5, Alka went to Etah for a court case. When she didn’t come home by late evening, her husband, Ramakant, tried to call her mobile, but it was switched off. He searched for her everywhere, but to no avail, until Sunday evening, when he received a call from the police asking him to identify a body.
After identifying Alka’s remains, her body was sent for a postmortem, and her husband filed a report against two men—Akhilesh and Aniket—from their village at the Jasrathpur police station. Reportedly, the two men in the past were accused of luring and kidnapping Alka’s daughter.
Following this incident, Alka had sent her daughter to her maternal home in Sikandarpur Khas village in Farrukhabad district. It was there that Alka’s daughter began a relationship with Subhash, who had previously spent ten years in jail.
But after learning about her daughter’s latest relationship, Alka planned kill her. She contacted Subhash to get the job done.
However, Subhash knew that Alka was his lover’s mother and revealed everything to the daughter. They then came up with a plan to kill Alka instead. Her daughter even promised Subhash that she would marry him if he agrees with her.
According to the police, Alka was strangled to death. Both the daughter and her lover have been arrested.