Azamgarh, January 15: Family members of a Dalit youth, who was killed in a road accident, blocked the Azamgarh-Gorakhpur national highway today, alleging that he was murdered.
Vehicular traffic for disrupted for over two hours.
SP Ramit Sharma said that the youth was overrun by a truck in city Kotwali area last night and the body has been sent to district hospital for post-mortem examination.
But the family members of the deceased alleged that he was murdered and demanded that a murder case be filed and resorted to traffic jam this morning.
Senior police official reached the spot and persuaded the family members and villagers to end it.
The SP has assured that during investigations of the FIR lodged in the accident case, the allegations of the family members would also be considered.
–Agencies