Kanpur, January 18: The Uttar Pradesh police on Friday arrested two more accused in connection with a murder of a 40-year-old woman after an encounter in Kanpur’s Jajmau area. The woman was killed by molesters of her 13-year-old daughter. Till now, six accused have been arrested in connection with the murder. The woman and her sister were attacked by the main accused in the molestation case Mehfooz and his aides on January 9. UP Shocker: Woman Beaten To Death By Daughter's Alleged Molesters in Kanpur, Priyanka Gandhi Slams Yogi Adityanath.

According to a report published in The Times of India, the woman’s daughter was allegedly molested by Mehfooz on the premises of a tannery in the city in 2018. She then registered an FIR against Mehfooz at Chakeri police station. The accused who were arrested after an encounter on Friday were identified as Parvez and Abid. Both sustained bullet injuries. They were admitted to Kanshiram hospital in Ramadevi area of the city. Uttar Pradesh Shocker: Family of Six Set on Fire While Sleeping by Unidentified Miscreants in Meerut.

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The police carried out the encounter after receiving the information about the presence of the accused in the area. Initially, all the six accused were booked under sections various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) 147,148, 149, 307, 452, 354, 392. However, after the death of the woman during her treatment in a hospital, section 307 of the IPC would now be converted into section 302.

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