MEERUT, Dec. 1 -- A 32-year-old woman was brutally murdered by her brother in broad daylight in Amroha's Nanheda Aliarpur village after demanding her share of ancestral land following her father's death. The accused, identified as Shyoraj Singh, allegedly attacked his sister, Syogyata, on the head with a sharp-edged weapon or iron rod inside their home before fleeing with his wife and children, said police on Monday.

The incident occurred on Monday around 11 am within the jurisdiction of Amroha Dehat police station. According to the police, Syogyata had been working as a nurse at a private hospital in Moradabad for the past five years and was living in a live-in relationship with a man there. She had returned to her village following the...