Sudeeksha had returned from the US in June amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
A 20-year-old woman from western Uttar Pradesh, who overcame many odds to secure 98 per cent marks in her class 12 board exams in 2018 and then went on to receive a full time scholarship at a prestigious university in the United States, was killed on Monday in a road accident in the state's Bulandshahr district.
The family of Sudeeksha Bhati, the girl who died, has alleged that she met with an accident because two men on a bike chased the 20-year-old, who was on a separate motorcycle with her uncle, and tried to harass her.
Sudeeksha Bhati from Bulandshahr had returned from the US in June amid the novel coronavirus pandemic and was scheduled to go back in August. Two years back, she had made it to the prestigious Babson College in Massachusetts after she topped her district in CBSE class 12 exam in the Humanities stream.
On Monday, she and her uncle left on a bike from their village in UP's Gautam Budh Nagar and were on their way to a relative's place in Bulandshahr's Sikandrabad to get some academic papers from a school, when the incident took place.
"There were two men on the other bike. They were passing comments on her and were driving recklessly," said Omkar Bhati, a family member.
"When we crossed the Bulandshahr town, we entered a village. A bike then overtook us several times; the biker was driving recklessly. The biker then started performing stunts. I slowed my motorcycle but the other bike hit us hard. We both fell but my niece suffered head injuries. I could not recognise the driver of the other bike and he escaped shortly after we met with the accident," said Satender Bhati, Sudeeksha's uncle, recalling the moments before accident.
The Bulandshahr Police have so far not spoken about the harassment but said they are investigating the case.
"The police team that went to the spot had questioned eye witnesses who had said the Royal Enfield Bullet was coming from the front and it suddenly stopped because of traffic, which led to the accident. The body of the woman was sent for the post mortem. At that time when the accident happened , the relative or any eyewitness had not spoken about any harassment," said Atul Shrivastava, a senior police officer in Bulandshahr.
Sudeeksha's journey from her UP village to a prestigious American university was one of grit and determination.
She was one of the few girls in her village who had gone to a school/ A student of Vidya Gyan School, an initiative of the Shiv Nadar Foundation, Sudeeksha had scored a perfect 100 in History and Economics; she scored 99 in Geography.
