Meerut, Jan. 28 -- A court in Rampur has awarded life imprisonment to six persons for the kidnapping and murder of a woman in November 2018.

One of the six men was the woman's fiance. The court of additional district judge Ajay Kumar Dixit also found them guilty of destruction of evidence and slapped a fine of Rs.35,000 on each of them.

The court observed that the murder was meticulously planned so that Jahangir could marry another woman.

The woman, Zainab alias Payal, daughter of Shahnawaz from Mohalla Darakht Kaith, Hammam Wali Gali, went missing on the evening of November 1, 2018. Her brother Rahil Khan later accused Jahangir, her fiance, and three others of abducting her, additional district government counsel Pratap Singh Maurya s...