GHAZIABAD: The driver of the truck which crushed a 16-year-old schoolgirl in Sahibabad on Friday has been arrested. Over 70 people, including a local councillor, have also been booked for blocking a road and hurling stones at a police team in Sahibabad following the girl’s death. The truck driver, Etah resident Dinesh Kumar, was arrested from Tila Mor on Saturday.The girl, Rakhi, a resident of Panchsheel Colony, was on her way to school when she was crushed by the truck on Friday morning. Family members of the girl and local residents blocked the Bhopura-Loni road for more than three hours, demanding immediate arrest of the driver and helper. When police tried to control the situation, the protesters turned violent and pelted the cops with stones. Many of the 40-odd cops deployed to diffuse the situation were injured.The same day, the truck driver was booked under sections 279 (rash driving), 304 ( culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 338 (causing grievous hurt) of the IPC at Sahibabad police station. On Friday night, an FIR was again registered against 27 identified people, including Sahibabad councillor Chatar Singh, and 45 other unidentified people under sections 147 (rioting), 188 (disobedience to order), 336 (endangering life), 341 (wrongful restraint) and 353 (assault to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the IPC and section 7 of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act.

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