One-year-old girl run over by car in Pilibhit district; case settled for Rs 1.5 lakh

Pilibhit: The driver of a speeding car allegedly ran over a one-year-old girl when she was playing outside her home in Dhankuna village under Neuria police station of Pilibhit district on Saturday evening.

Family members rushed the girl to the district hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries. The villagers, meanwhile, caught the car driver and handed him over to police, who impounded the car and sent the body for autopsy.

SHO Jagat Singh said police released the accused — Mohammad Shafiq of Charubata in Uttarakhand's Udhamsingh Nagar district — as a compromised was reached between the families of the accused and the victim and the dispute was settled for Rs 1.5 lakh.