Basti (UP), March 3 – A 18-year-old woman was allegedly shot dead in a village here by a man who had previously sexually assaulted her, police said on Tuesday.
The 12th-grade student was sleeping on the veranda of her house on Monday when she was shot.
Doctors at a community health center pronounced her dead.
Additional Superintendent of Police Shyam Kant said, "No written complaint has been received so far. However, family members have expressed suspicion about a young man. The body has been sent to the morgue for post-mortem examination."
The victim's mother, Anita, alleged that 22-year-old Mandeep Paswan of the same village killed her daughter.
Anita said her husband, Dinesh Kumar, works in Punjab to support the family, while she lives in the village with her daughter and son.
She alleged that on December 19, 2025, Paswan sexually assaulted her daughter and made an explicit video of her to force her into a physical relationship. He also pressured her to marry him, she said.
At the time, Paswan was booked at Kalwari Police Station under BNS and Section 67 of the IT Act but no other preventive action was taken against him, she said.
She accused the local police of negligence and demanded justice for her daughter.