Hardoi (UP), May 13 -- A 24-year-old girl was shot dead allegedly by a jilted lover in the Mallawan police station area of Hardoi district here in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, police sources said here.

Police sources said that the body of Sangeeta Rajput, a resident of Jarera village in Mallawan police station area, was found with bullet wounds inside the house. "According to the family members, Sangeeta's marriage was fixed and her wedding procession was to come from a village in Bilgram police station area on May 15," they said.

Police sources said that the family members informed that Premchand from Baddapurva village in Kannauj district, the village of the deceased girl's maternal uncle, loved her one-sidedly and had not allowed the gir...