New Delhi: Kin of a 40-year old woman who died after getting hit by a bullet have accused the police for the incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Siddharthnagar district. The woman had succumbed to the bullet injuries on the spot. The incident pertains to Islamnagar Kodra of Sadar Police Station area in the Siddharthnagar district.
Regarding the incident, the relatives of the deceased told ABP News that a team of Special Operations Group (SOG) came to their house at 10 o'clock in the night and picked up his brother Abdul Rehman, who was sleeping in the house under the light of the torch and started taking them with him. On this, his mother Roshni opposed the team and started asking the reason for taking him.
After the woman protested, police personnel threatened the lady with shooting. When she tried to free her brother from the police, they shot a bullet at the lady and took away her brother with them.
According to the relatives, they reached the district hospital with their mother covered in blood, but by then she had died. Relatives said that they or their family did not know for which crime the policemen had come to arrest their brother, while all of them had come from Mumbai that day for their sister’s wedding.
Meanwhile, Sadar area Deputy Superintendent Pradeep Kumar Yadav said that the police of Sadar police station had gone to Kodra's Islam Nagar village to raid a case of cow slaughter. In the meantime, the villagers attacked the police team that went to raid, pelted stones and fired shots.
A woman was injured from a bullet who later died during treatment in the hospital, added Yadav.
CO Sadar told ABP News that the incident which has happened in this case is being investigated from every angle and strictest action will be taken against whoever is guilty.