Death of a girl student in a road accident led to violent protest in Kasya area on Kushinagar while another mishap in Hardoi in which another school going children was critically injured on Monday morning, local public torched several vehicles besides blocking the roads for several hours.
In Kushninagar, local police had to burst tear-gas shells and opened lathi charge to disperse the agitated students. According to reports, one Deepika Chowdhury (21), a student of second year in Bachelor of Science (biology) at Baudh Post-Graduate College, was going to attend coaching from her residence at Vishunpur crossing on Monday morning. On her way to coaching, her cycle was hit by a truck on the national highway-28 near Vishunpuri tri-section in Kasya area killing her on the spot. The truck driver managed to escape the spot along with the vehicle.
Agitated with the incident, the students and local residents went on a rampage and set several vehicles including a roadways bus and five motorcycles on fire. They also vandalised the Kushinagar police outpost and set it on fire, after which police resorted to lathi-charge and burst tear gas shells to control the situation. IG law and Order, A Satish Ganesh, while informing about the above incident claimed that situation is under control and police cleared the highway, on which traffic has resumed. He said that a case was also registered and body of the victim was sent for post-mortem examination.
In a separate incident reported from Hardoi, a 15-year-old boy was critically injured after being hit by a truck following which other students and locals went on rampage and damaged a number of vehicles in Mallawan area on Monday morning.
Reports said that Rithik (15), a student of class 9th at BN Inter College at Mallawan, was hit by the truck near his school on Katra-Bilhor highway, when he was going to attend classes on Monday morning. Some passers-by immediately shifted him to the district hospital from where he has been referred to trauma center at lucknow. Agitated with the incident the students and the locals
blocked the road and damaged a number of buses and trucks along with two-wheelers. later heavy police force reached the spot and brought the situation under control after chasing away the trouble makers.
Meanwhile a 7-year-old boy was also killed in Sultanpur after he was knocked down by a vehicle which is part of a procession taken out in favour of Samajwadi Party supported candidate. Reports said that Akhilesh Tewari, having SP support for Panchayat Member seat of Ward 29 in Sultanpur, was taking out procession to garner support when motorcycle of his fleet hit a boy Ishaq, a resident of Darhawa in Kudawar, on Sunday evening. local residents rushed to the boy to near-by nursing home but the doctors declared him Rsbrought dead’. A case has been registered in this regard but no one was arrested so far.