MEERUT, July 24 -- A 23-year-old woman, who left her home in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad district on June 25 telling her family she was going to appear in her LLB second-year examination at Osmania University in Hyderabad and then went missing, was allegedly shot dead by her husband on June 29 inside an SUV (Thar) she had gifted him because she allegedly wanted him to sever ties with his family, Moradabad Police said on Friday.

After committing the crime, the accused allegedly drove through the night to dump her body in Uttarakhand. The details of the gruesome crime emerged after the Moradabad Police interrogated the accused, who was already lodged in Rampur district jail in connection with another case.

SP (city), Moradabad, Kumar Ranvij...