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Ex beauty queen kills parents
Meerut, Nov. 18: A former beauty pageant winner Priyanka and her friend Anju were arrested by the Meerut Police on Monday for allegedly killing Priyanka’s aged parents.
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Priyanka’s parents — retired junior engineer Prem Veer and his wife Santosh — were strangled to death on November 10. Fixed deposit receipts worth over Rs 6 lakh, Rs 50,000 in cash and the official will of Priyanka’s father executed in the name of his son Gaurav were recovered from their possession, said SSP, Meerut, Raghuveer Lal.
Priyanka claimed she was peeved with her father for looking down on her. "My father and brother always accused me of being my mother’s illegitimate child. There were times when I was thrashed blue and black for small mistakes," a sobbing Priyanka said.
She also claims to be abused by a youth whom she had befriended and who worked as a senior executive with a multi-national giant of electronic goods.
Priyanka graduated from the Indian Institute of Fashion Technology in 2002 and won the Miss Meerut contest in 2005.
Ditched by her boyfriend and ridiculed by her family, Priyanka shifted to Government Girls’ Polytechnic in South Delhi in 2006 where she met Anju - her hostel mate from Amroha.
Anju, too, believed that she was unwanted since she was a girl. And this feeling of rejection led to a strong bond between the two girls, said additional SP, Meerut (City), Rakesh Jolly, who spearheaded the investigation.
"I was worthless for my family because I was a girl - an unwanted child. Things were so bad that once my uncle raped me and when I reported the matter to parents, they held me responsible for it," Anju told the police.
Priyanka told the police that she along with Anju had gone to meet her mother on November 10.
"But she began to curse me and in a fit of rage I turned to her. She tried to grab me by hair and in a reflex I caught her by neck. But the moment I saw her bleeding from the nose, I turned numb," Priyanka told the police as she broke down.
While the two girls were yet to decide what to do next, Priyanka’s father arrived and finding his wife bleeding, raised an alarm. The girls reportedly tried to gag him but he died in the process.
"I was angry over my father’s decision to give away everything to my brother Gaurav who is pursuing his career in Bangalore and my elder sister who is married and settled elsewhere. So I searched for my father’s will and in the process came across the FDRs and cash which we pocketed," Priyanka said
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