ghaziabad the family of 18yearold farhana who was shot dead on nh58 in a meerut village hours after her wedding last friday night has alleged the murder could have been carried out by a youth to whom she was supposed to get married before a dowry dispute led to parting of waysrelatives said her mother had discovered that farhana was in a relationship with the man from the same village they lived in nahal and had initiated talks with his family for marriage but the youths family allegedly rejected the proposal apparently after coming to know that the financial status of farhanas family wasnt strong enough to bring along a fat dowrythe allegation comes against the backdrop of meerut police probing if a spurned lover shot farhana two youths from nahal were detained on sunday but police have not revealed their identities one of farhanas uncles claimed they had spoken to roadside stall owners who claimed to have seen the murder take place and learnt that a youth had interacted with farhana for around 10 minutes before shooting her he forced her husband and his relatives out of the car and drove it 20 metres ahead he then spoke to her for around 10 minutes before shooting her in the chest said haji farooqat least four assailants had waylaid the car of farhana and her husband on nh58 in daurala on friday and shot her a murder that was initially thought to be the fallout of a robbery attempt but farhanas family subsequently questioned the robbery motive pointing out only she was targeted even though she did not carry enough cash with herfarhanas mother had found that her daughter had developed a fondness for a local youth who was a mechanic she approached his family but they rejected the proposal after coming to know about farhanas financial status a relative said farhanas mother had apparently asked the youth not to call her daughter any more but he was adamant he had threatened he would not let farahana get married to anyone else the relative addedasked what took farhanas family so long to speak about the possibility of the village youth being involved they said they feared retribution at the hands of his relatives as they are quite influentialminutes before her death farooq said farhana had called her mother on the phone but could not utter a word it is not at all a case of loot there is a bigger conspiracy behind my daughters death said farman farhanas fathermeerut police probing the murder case have said a jilted lover could be involved in the attack as of now it comes across as revenge of a jilted lover or a case of robbery several teams have been pressed into action to work it out on priority prashant kumar additional director general meerut zone had said on sunday