A woman was shot dead in Uttarakhand on Wednesday after a clash broke out between residents of a village in Udham Singh Nagar district and a team of Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad Police, ANI reported.
The police team had gone to the district to arrest a criminal with a Rs 50,000 bounty on his head.
Moradabad Deputy Inspector General of Police Shalabh Mathur alleged that locals of the Bharatpur village gheraoed the police officers and snatched their weapons.
Both sides resorted to firing in which Gurpreet Kaur, who was returning from work, was killed, PTI reported.
Five Uttar Pradesh police personnel were also injured in the firing, The Indian Express reported. Two of them suffered bullet injuries and their condition is critical, according to doctors.
Additional Director General, Bareilly zone, Raj Kumar, claimed that his team were held hostage after the incident.
Meanwhile, Udham Singh Nagar Senior Superintendent of Police Manjunath TC claimed that the Uttar Pradesh Police did not inform their Uttarakhand counterparts about their action in advance, reported PTI.
A case was also registered against 10-12 personnel of the Uttar Pradesh Police on a complaint filed by Kaur’s family.
They have been charged under Sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 302 (murder), 452 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 120-b (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
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