LUCKNOW: Eighteen persons were booked by Barabanki police on Thursday for the murder of a 24-year-old youth over an inter-faith love affair in the district. Eleven of them have been arrested.
Police said that victim Jamis was in a relationship with a 19-year-old girl from another faith. "But she had stopped seeing him when her family didn't approve of it and fixed her marriage. However, he forced her to meet him on Monday. The girl's family members thrashed him when they saw them together. Jamis jumped into a pond to save himself, but drowned," they say.
