meerut a 35yearold female lawyer was shot dead by unidentified bikeborne assailants when she was returning home after buying milk early wednesday morning near her house in uttar pradeshs meerut victim anjali garg received a bullet in the head and collapsed at the gate of her house in the new mewla colony under the transport nagar police station police rushed her to hospital but the doctors declared her dead anjali had approached the police a fortnight prior expressing concerns about her safety and citing threats to her life her relatives have filed a police complaint against her exfatherinlaw pawan garg and her former husband nitin garg both of whom have been arrested in connection with the crimepolice said anjali was involved in a property dispute with her exhusbands family after their divorce anjali and her husband nitin garg had divorced in 2020 and as part of the settlement anjali was supposed to vacate the house in exchange for five shops however she did not comply with the agreement leading to tension between her and the garg family anjali derived income from renting out the shops and pawan and nitin wanted the house back this conflict escalated over time said sp city piyush kumarthe officials privy to the matter said anjali had also sought help from the office of the ig of meerut range on may 18 expressing her fear for her life in her application accessed by toi she accused pawan of making her life unbearable restricting her movements and threatening her she claimed that he had even brought two men to her house pointing fingers at it if anything untoward happens to me pawan and his associates will be responsible she stated