About half a dozen miscreants struck terror in Banda when they tried to kidnap a 19-year-old girl and after the local villagers challenged them, they threw the victim in a well leading to her death and escaped, in the late night on Thursday. local police which rushed to the spot registered a case and sent the body for post-mortem examination. Efforts were also made to nab the accused.
Reports said that Chunni aka Gudiya, hailing from Chiwari hamlet of Badausa in Banda, was sleeping alone on the terrace of her house on Thursday. Sometime around mid-night, Rakesh, Mahesh, Shivsaran, Om Prakash and Prem Chandra, all residents of Makhalpurwa hamlet of Banda, tried to kidnap the girl. However, as she managed to raise an alarm, local residents rushed out and made attempt to rescue her from clutches of the accused. Sensing trouble for them, the accused threw the girl inside a well and escaped into the fields. local villagers somehow took out Gudiya and took her to hospital but she was pronounced dead upon arrival. Raids were later conducted to nab the accused but they for found absconding.
Meanwhile three persons, including a child, were killed and seven injured as a speeding truck hit a number of vehicles one after the other on Kanpur-Farrukhabad road in Farrukhabad on Friday morning. According to reports, a truck (UP72T-2556), coming from Kanpur, first hit passengers getting down from a tempo, injuring four of them, on Friday morning. In his attempt to escape after some locals tried to intercept the vehicle, the truck driver then hit a motorcycle carrying three persons. The truck then hit another motorcycle, also carrying three persons, killing them on the spot.
The deceased have been identified as Sudhir Kumar (30), a resident of Gursahariganj in Kannauj, Sonpal Singh (21), hailing from Hardoi, and Sudhir’s son Dev Yadav(2). The truck driver managed to escape with the vehicle. Angry over the incident, locals jammed traffic on the GT Road here for about three hours. Senior district officials rushed to the spot and controlled the situation. Those injured were also rushed to District hospital where condition of Ranjeet Singh, Neeraj Singh, lakshmi, and Aftab Khan has been stated to be critical by the doctors.