MEERUT, May 10 -- Three men were arrested following an encounter in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, four days after they allegedly killed a 19-year-old girl and gangraped a minor, police said on Saturday. They were identified as Gaurav Singh from Ghaziabad, and Sandeep Singh and Amit Singh from Gautam Buddha Nagar, police said, adding Gaurav and Sandeep were shot in the leg during the encounter.

As per reports, the accused, said to be friends, lured two girls into accompanying them on the pretext of a job. Later, they allegedly threw one girl out of their moving car in Meerut, killing her on the spot. After that, the three friends allegedly took turns raping the minor girl before dumping her in Khurja. The girl somehow...