At least 25 people travelling from Haridwar, Uttarakhand in the mini-truck were on way to attend some religious discourse at Naimisharanya in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district
Garra river rose due to water released from Nepal, which entered Shahjahanpur after Pilibhit; water level currently receding, says relief commissioner GS Naveen Kumar
Pankaj Kumar, an eyewitness, said most of the passengers had alighted from the bus. Twenty-five people were still on the bus when the speeding truck hit it, he added.
Inspector in-charge of Pooranpur police station, Sanjiv Kumar Shukla, informed that Shubham Shukla’s body was found hanging from a tree around 500 metres from his house in Pilibhit.
Court in Shahjahanpur sentences two men to 10-year imprisonment for raping a 12-year-old girl in 1994; fine of ₹10,000 each slapped on the convicts, both brothers