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Cases have been registered in both incidents and the police are investigating the matter further.
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Case of murder registered against family
Ghaziabad: In what appears to be another case of honour killing, the family of a 16-year-old girl has been booked for murdering her and her 21-year-old cousin and lover on Saturday. The family was opposed to the match .
A case of murder has been registered against the girl's father and other members of her family. The incident occurred in Gari Madhiya village of Ghaziabad on Saturday, when Ishtiyak Ali had gone to meet his cousin Shabnam. Their bodies were recovered later in the evening. The girl's parents claimed Shabnam was shot by Ishtiyak, who later committed suicide.

The police, however, said Ali's postmortem report suggested he was shot in the head from behind. Superintendent of Police (Rural) M M Baig said: "We are investigating whether this is a case of honour killing," he added.
Ishtiyak's father, Mushtiyak Ali, had alleged in his FIR that his son, who worked as a helper in a shop owned by the girl's family, and Shabnam were shot dead by the girl's parents as they were against the relationship.

Next page: Youth Akali Dal leader shot dead in Chandigarh
Youth Akali Dal leader shot
Chandigarh: Youth Akali Dal leader from Muktsar, Tripat Deep Singh Sekhon, was shot dead in the busy market of Sector 9 on Tuesday. The Chandigarh Police have booked Balwinder Bajaj alias Minkle, a Muktsar resident and former Youth Akali leader for the murder under Section 302 of the IPC. He is yet to be arrested.
Enmity between the deceased and the accused related to a MMS case, involving Bajaj's sister is said to be the motive for the crime.
Around 4.30 pm Sekhon was found lying on the road in Sector 9, writhing in pain. He was shot in the groin. The police was called and a PCR van rushed him to the Sector 16 hospital and from there he was referred to the PGI. He was declared dead on arrival at the PGI.
Police said Sekhon had called his sister Kiranpreet Kaur and told her he had been shot by Balwinder Bajaj. The forty-year-old had come to stay with Kaur, a teacher and a resident of Zirakpur, four days ago.
According to preliminary investigations, Sekhon and his niece Abhir had come to visit his cousin Paramjit Kaur at Sector 7 in the afternoon. At 4.10 pm, Sekhon received a call on his mobile. The caller had asked him to come to the rear of Sector 9 market. There he was shot at by the ac
cused who managed to flee. According to eyewitnesses, he was seen waiting for someone next to his motorcycle.
The police have dispatched a team to Muktsar to apprehend Minkle.
The rivalry and the grudge In February, Sekhon was among the three persons booked in a case of making an obscene MMS of a married woman in Muktsar. The woman in the MMS is the sister of the accused Minkle. Police said Minkle could have held a grudge against Sekhon.
Sekhon was booked along with Gurpal and Kapil, but was given a clean chit as the police found he had only forwarded the MMS which he received from prime accused Gurpal. "We initially booked him in the case, but investigations revealed that Sekhon had received and forwarded the MMS. He was not directly involved in the scandal. Minkle, however, could not forgive Sekhon. The two were also political rivals," said Inder Mohan Singh, SSP, Muktsar, adding that Sekhon was not named in the police chargesheet in the case.
Investigations revealed that accused Minkle was formerly a member of Youth Akali Dal but later resigned owing to his rivalry with Sekhon.

Next page: Wine shop manager shot at, attackers flee despite cop chase
Manager out of danger after shooting incident
Mumbai: The manager of a wine shop at Lalbaug was on Tuesday morning shot at allegedly by two unidentified assailants, who came to the shop on the pretext of buying alcohol. Three rounds were fired at Ajit Panjwani (30) and the attackers fled despite a chase by a police constable. The Bhoiwada police have ruled out robbery as motive, and said Panjwani, who suffered two bullet injuries, is out of danger.
The incident took place between 11.15 am and 11.30 am at London Wines located near the ITC, Grand Maratha in Lalbaug. Police said the shop was targetted on two other occasions this year. In February, around Rs 15,000 was stolen from the shop. A month ago, armed robbers had looted Rs 1.75 lakh. The robbery case is yet to be solved and investigators said they are probing possible links between the incidents.
"As per the statements of Panjwani, he was at the counter when a man came and asked for a bottle of liqour. While he was fetching the bottle, suddenly another man entered and fired three rounds at him. The duo then fled in opposite directions. One of them was spotted by a beat marshall who was coming out of a bank near the shop," said Additional Commissioner of Police, Central, Vineet Agarwal. Police constable Manohar Shendge saw a youth running even as crowd gathered outside the wine shop.
"I heard people shouting about the gunfire and immediately started chasing the youth. However, due to heavy traffic, it was tough to chase him," said Shendge.
The assailant dropped his revolver while fleeing and it was later recovered by the police. Shendge along with locals rushed Panjwani to the KEM Hospital.
"While three rounds were fired, one hit Panjwani's shoulder and the other brushed his hip. He is out of danger.
Prima facie it does not appear as if robbery was the motive. We are investigating if someone has any vendetta against either the owner of the shop or Panjwani," said senior inspector Vikram Patil of the Bhoiwada police station. Meanwhile, Gulab Kukreja, the owner's son, was at KEM Hospital to look after Panjwani.
"We have been running this shop for the past 10 years. No untoward incident was reported till last year. After the theft and robbery, this is the third such incident and is of more serious in nature. I'm concerned about my employees' safety," said Kukreja whose elderly father is in hospital after suffering brain haemorrhage. Prem Miskin, a member of the Maharashtra Wine Merchants Association, claimed that for the past few months attacks on wine shops have increased considerably.