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In a shocking incident, a 17-year old girl was crushed to death after she fell off her cycle and was hit by a speeding motorbike when two bike borne men pulled her 'dupatta' (stole) in Uttar Pradesh's Ambedkar Nagar district, about 200 kilometres from Lucknow.
The two accused, both brothers, were nabbed by the cops on Sunday along with another youth, all of whom hailed from the same district, police sources said. The accused tried to escape from the police custody while being taken for medical examination by snatching a police rifle and firing on the cops but were injured in retaliatory firing and nabbed again.
Police sources said that the accused, who were brothers, identified as Shahbaz and Faisal, pulled the stole of the teen while she was on her way back home from school. The teen fell off her cycle on the road and was hit by another speeding bike. She suffered severe injuries on her head. The girl was rushed to a nearby hospital but was declared dead by the doctors.
The parents of the teen said that the accused brothers often used to harass the girl and that she had also brought it to their notice.
The local police initially tried to hush up the matter terming the death as a case of accident. The matter came to light when the CCTV footage of the incident emerged and went viral on social media platforms. The SHO of Hansavar police station was suspended on charges of laxity.
Police said that Shahbaz and Faisal were nabbed by a team of the police from near Semra area in the district on Sunday along with another person, who was also allegedly involved in the incident.
The accused tried to escape after one of them snatched the rifle of a cop and opened fire, police said adding that Faisal and Shahbaz were hit by bullets in retaliatory firing by the cops while the third accused was injured while trying to flee.