LUCKNOW, Jan. 31 -- More than six weeks after a three-year-old girl was struck by a stray bullet while playing on her terrace in Indira Nagar's Bastauli locality within the Ghazipur police station limits, police are yet to find out who fired the shot. With conventional leads exhausted, investigators are now considering recreating the incident to determine the bullet's trajectory and possible point of origin.

The child, Lakshmi, underwent a rare and complex surgery at the King George's Medical University (KGMU), where doctors gave her a new lease of life by removing the "wandering" bullet.

Assistant commissioner of police (ACP), Ghazipur, Anindya Vikram Singh said the next step could involve reconstructing the incident at the scene. "We ...