Woman shopkeeper shot dead in Greater Noida because she ran out of cigarettes

It was a petty matter but it left the 65-year-old shopkeeper of Greater Noida dead – she was shot dead by a man when she ran out of cigarettes. It seems two men on bikes came to her shop and one of them got down, went to her shop and asked for cigarettes. Both of them wore helmets and, when the woman said she did not have any stock of cigarettes, the man shot her. He fired two bullets and one of these hit her head – she was dead on the spot.
The shop was in Tulsi Vihar in Dadri and she was filling in for her son who had gone to Bulandshahr for the day. The woman is survived by five sons and three daughters.
Incidentally, she had 12.5 bighas of land in Greater Noida in her name and the murder could have been due to that – the cigarette could have been an excuse to get close enough.
Anyway, killing someone for some petty reason is not uncommon. In Katihar, Bihar, a young man was stabbed to death because he refused to pay the money demanded by the four people for buying gutka.
In yet another incident of killing over petty matters, a 26-year-old waiter of Uttarakhand was shot dead allegedly by a customer following a quarrel with a group of diners who refused to pay for two additional chapatis they had ordered during the meal at a hotel here.