A Dalit woman died and a teenager was injured in Harsha firing in Girvan area in Banda district. Police said that the former village headman of Bansakha village has been arrested in this connection.
Narayan Region Deputy Superintendent of Police (CO) Siyaram said on Tuesday that a family program was going on at Dalit Lalman's house in Banaskha village on Monday evening when some people started firing from illegal guns. In the meantime, former liquor head Kamta Prasad Kushwaha fired his license with two drain guns, he said.
The CO said that the bullet fired by the former village head went into the head of Rajabai (55), the wife of Dalit Nathu Verma, who was involved in the tilak ceremony, who died on the spot and the teenager Sona Devi (15) sitting near him was shrapnel Was injured by
He said that former head of village Kamta Prasad Kushwaha was arrested late in the case. A licensee gun has also been recovered from him. Simultaneously, other people firing from illegal realities are being searched.
Police officer said that late night, Inspector General of Police (IG) Banda K. Satyanarayana and Superintendent of Police (SP) Siddharth Shankar Meena have also inspected the site. The dead woman's body has been sent for postmortem and the injured teenager is undergoing treatment at the district hospital.