Death of a 19-year-old girl inside the police station campus reportedly led to violent protest when hundred of local villagers gathered outside Mehmudabad police station and pelted stones, on Monday morning. They demanded action against the cops whose negligence they claimed to have led to the incident. The situation could be only brought under control after senior officers reached the spot and assured of action after an enquiry into the matter.
Reports said that one Zeenat, hailing from Sonpur hamlet of Gaisadi in Balrampur district and presently living with her father Maqbul, a guard at local BSNl office, was held by two policemen when she was reportedly trying to jump into a canal from Nurpul puliya in Mehmudabad in the wee hours of Monday. She left her house after a scuffle with her brother Mehboob on Sunday evening and was missing since then.
The cops brought the girl to the local police station as they thought that the girl was misleading them about their identity. However, the matter took an ugly turn when the girl was found hanging with the ceiling of the toilet inside the police station campus. The news of mysterious death of Zeenat, whom the police claimed to have committed suicide went like a wild fire and within hour, over 400 of local villagers ghearoed Mehmudabad police station.
Agitated with the negligence of the local police, protesters started pelting stones in which some policemen were injured while some vehicles were also damaged. later senior officers reached the spot and they used force to disperse the crowd. They also reportedly assured of action in the matter against those found guilty. The body of the girl was dispatched for post-mortem examination and further investigations are on in the matter.
Meanwhile to save her modesty a girl jumped from a truck which led to her death in Fatehpur district on Monday. Agitated with the incident, local public also blocked the Jahendbad-Fatehpur highway for over two hours to demand arrest of the truck driver who absconded from the spot. Reports said t hat one Udai Bhan, a resident of Bara hamlet of Zafarganj in Fatehpur, was taking his 14-year-old daughter Akansha for a medical check-up on his bicycle on Monday morning.
On way, he stopped DCM truck attached with popular milk brand RsNamaste India’ and requested the driver to take his daughter till the dispensary and dropped her. The girl subsequently sit on the truck but when the driver not stopped the vehicle and tried to kidnap her, the victim to save her modesty jumped from the vehicle and in the process she was critically injured and died on way to hospital. later demanding arrest of the driver, local residents blocked the traffic movement. The protest ended after local police registered a case and assured of stern action against the guilty.