This story is from January 22, 2018

Guests open fire at engagement ceremony; girl killed, 2 injured in UP's Firozabad

The issue of borrowing motor-bike turned into a nightmare at an engagement ceremony in UP's Firozabad district where an 11-year-old girl was killed and two teenage girls were injured after some youths allegedly fired shots following an argument late on Sunday night.
Guests open fire at engagement ceremony; girl killed, 2 injured in UP's Firozabad
Two teenage girls were injured.
Key Highlights
  • Laxmi succumbed to the bullet injury in the party and was declared brought dead at the district hospital.
  • Two other girls, identified as Ramakanti alias Lata (14) and Anjali (8), who had been admitted in the hospital were said to be out of danger.
AGRA/FIROZABAD: The issue of borrowing a motor-bike turned an engagement ceremony into a nightmare in UP's Firozabad district where an 11-year-old girl was killed and two teenage girls were injured after some youths allegedly fired shots following an argument late on Sunday night.
The incident took place at Darigpur village of Khairgarh police jurisdiction at around 11:40pm, when the guest and the kids were having dinner.

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While Laxmi succumbed to the bullet injury in the party and was declared brought dead at the district hospital, two other girls, identified as Ramakanti alias Lata (14) and Anjali (8), who sustain bullet pellets were admitted in the hospital. The two were said to be out of danger.
Based on the written complaint filed by Laxmi’s father Shyam Sundar, an murder case was filed against four men - Ankul Singh, Dharamveer Singh, Ravi Singh and Dinesh Singh, all brothers and cousin of Pankaj Yadav who got engaged on Sunday night with an Agra woman.
Speaking to TOI, DSP Sanjay Kumar Reddy, CO Shikohabad who conducted raid at the home of the accused on Monday, said, “All the four are absconding, but we have initiated the process to terminate the gun license of Jagat Singh, the father of four accused, whose weapon was used to fire shots.”

Reddy said, “The four brothers engaged in a heated argument with their distant relative over a mere issue of borrowing motor-bike. The argument rose to such an extent that Ankul brought his father's 12 bore gun and fired several shots. During the firing, a bullet hit a 11-year-old girl and injured two others. After the incident, all the attendees of the engagement party fled Darigpur village.”
On Monday, after the post-mortem of Laxmi, her body was handed over to her parents, while Pankaj Yadav carried on with his marriage and went to Agra’s Etmadpur with his relatives to tie the knot.
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Arvind Chauhan

Arvind Chauhan is an experienced journalist with a demonstrated history of working in the newspapers industry as well as for the social media wing as digital content creator. He has covered subjects like railways, aviation, defence, energy, health, real estate, minority affairs, women and child development, crime, customs, telecom, district court, district administration, roads and infrastructure, armed forces tribunal, and regional politics across Uttar Pradesh. He began his career in Lucknow, and has done reporting in West Uttar Pradesh. He has won the Times Scribe Award four times including for busting fake news, and extensive coverage on Covid orphans. He graduated with a journalism degree from Times School of Journalism and BA (Honors) in English from Lucknow University.

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