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UP School Teacher Shot Dead By "Drunk" Cop After Argument Over Tobacco
NDTV
The school teacher was part of a team of the education department from Varanasi that had brought UP Board high school examination answer sheets to a college in Muzaffarnagar.
A school teacher was shot dead by a "drunk" Uttar Pradesh Police head constable after an argument broke out between them over tobacco in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, the police said on Monday.
The victim has been identified as Dharmendra Kumar and was part of a team of the education department from Varanasi that had brought Uttar Pradesh Board high school examination answer sheets to a college in Muzaffarnagar, Superintendent of Police (City) Satyanarain Parjapat said.
The head constable, Chander Prakash, was part of the police team that accompanied Kumar and a few other officials from Varanasi.