Uttar Pradesh: Pregnant woman found murdered in Ayodhya

LUCKNOW: A 31-year-old pregnant woman was found murdered at her home in Ayodhya on Wednesday. The victim identified as Supriya Verma was alone when the incident took place.
Police has registered a case and is looking into to all possible angles while no trace of loot or forced entry was found in the house. The incident took place in Srirampuram Colony of Kotwali police station area.
Superintendent of police, Ayodhya, Shailesh Pandey, told TOI that the incident came to light when victim’s husband Umesh Nath and his mother-in-law Trishla returned from bank and spotted blood spattered all around giving them an impression that she had a miscarriage.
"She was immediately taken to a nearby hospital where she was declared brought dead. To the shock of the family the doctors diagnosed her to have been stabbed in her stomach and foetus by the miscreant," said Pandey. Thereafter the family informed the police.
Pandey also said that the police team which reached the spot to examine the crime scene found no traces of loot or theft even no forced entry.
"All the CCTVs installed near the house of the victim teacher is being scanned for the clues," said Pandey.
Pandey also said that Supriya was five months pregnant and was a primary school teacher, while her husband is also a primary school teacher.
Meanwhile, Former UP CM and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav from his personal twitter handle tweeted on the incident. Paying tribute to murder of a pregnant woman teacher in Ayodhya, he termed it is an unfortunate incident. "It is an open challenge to police and administration by the miscreants who executed the crime despite heavy presence of police in Ayodhya. In the BJP rule teachers are at the target list of both government and goons," he tweeted.