Meerut, Aug. 21 -- In Badaun district, a fresh angle has emerged in the gruesome double murder of a mother and daughter in Veerampur village, under the Dataganj police station area. The killings, police say, were driven by a land dispute that had been dragging on for years.

Jayanti, who had been fighting for the ownership of her late husband's seven-bigha land, had filed a case in court with the next hearing scheduled for August 18. But on the night of August 14, just four days before the hearing, Jayanti and her mother, Shanti Devi, were killed.

Police have claimed a breakthrough, arresting Jayanti's cousin, Vipin, along with two others, and sending them to jail. However, questions are being raised, as the FIR also names Sanjeev, Pinku...