Punjab girl mowed down by bus owned by Akali leader
Reports said the girl, Gurpreet Kaur, was crossing the road when the knocked her down on Thursday.
Police have registered a case against the driver and seized the bus.
Hundreds of local people gathered on the spot and blocked the Amritsar-Zira highway.
Last week, a 14-year-old girl was killed in a similar incident in Muktsar district involving a bus belonging to the same transport company.
Hardeep Singh, who owns the the company, is close to the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's family.
In May, the Badal family had been in the centre of a similar controversy after a teenage girl was molested and pushed off a moving bus owned by Deputy Chief M
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