Ara: A 36-year-old woman was shot dead allegedly by her husband’s elder brother following a land dispute at Agiaon village under Garhani police station area in Bhojpur district on Wednesday morning, police said. The accused is absconding.The woman, Seema Devi, wife of Amit Kumar Rai, sustained two gunshot injuries and died on the veranda of her house. Her husband works in Haryana. According to family members, Seema had returned from Delhi with her younger daughter Neetu about 10 days ago. She lived in Delhi with her husband and two daughters.Ara Sadar SDPO-1 Sushil Kumar and Garhani SHO Kamaljeet, along with other police personnel, reached the spot and began an investigation. The SDPO said police received information around 6.30am that Seema had been shot dead at her home. “Preliminary investigation suggests that she was killed by her husband’s elder brother, Suman Rai, who is absconding,” he said.An FSL team collected evidence from the spot and the body was sent to Sadar Hospital, Ara, for postmortem.According to the SDPO, preliminary investigation indicated that a family dispute over a piece of land may have led to the killing. Raids were being conducted to arrest the accused, he said.Seema’s brother, Vinay Kumar Choudhary, said the ancestral property had been divided among the three brothers, but a dispute remained over a piece of land in the local market.Her younger daughter Neetu, who claimed to have witnessed the incident, alleged that her uncle had threatened to kill her mother during an earlier family quarrel.Family members said Seema had spoken to her elder daughter Archana in Delhi on Tuesday evening and told her that she would return to Delhi soon..
