Mainpuri, Jan. 1 -- A bike-borne married couple was shot in the legs and robbed of valuable jewellery in Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, the first day of the New Year.
The couple was stopped in a deserted area and robbed of the jewellery. When the robbers tried to snatch their mobile phones, the victims resisted, prompting the miscreants to shoot both of them in the legs.
The incident occurred around 2 pm near the Singhpur canal bridge under the Sadar Kotwali police station area. The victims, Dilip and his wife Divya, were returning to their village, Gopalpur, from Mainpuri city on a motorcycle.
According to police, the attackers arrived in a car and two motorcycles and intercepted the couple near the canal embankment clo...