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Mob goes berserk after boy’s death in Aligarh

TNN

Feb 22, 2012

LUCKNOW: Twelve policemen, including Aligarh police chief, were injured and two police vehicles torched after an irate mob went on a rampage in Khairagarh area of Aligarh on Tuesday morning. Violence broke following reports that a policeman had taken bribe and let off a truck driver who run over a school boy.

Police had a tough time handling the situation as a chunk of the force was sent for chief minister Mayawati’s election rally in the district.

The incident took place around 9:30am when Vikram, a resident of Bardi Talab, was going to drop his neighbour’s son Vikas to his school on a motorcycle. The duo had barely reached the Jajalpur police outpost barrier when a speeding truck hit the motorcycle from the rear and ran over Vikas. Vikram had a narrow escape as he fell on the other side.

Locals rushed Vikas to a nearby nursing home from where he was referred to the Medical College. Meanwhile, locals and the police manage to overpower a youth trying to flee from the scene after they identified him as the erring truck driver.It could not be confirmed if he was the actual driver. The police took him to Jalalpur police outpost.

About half an hour later, the news of Vikas’s death came in. Soon it transpired what the police had let the errant truck driver. Reports said a constable had taken bribe and let off the driver. Read more..