The Class 12th student, one of the beneficiaries of the free laptop distribution scheme of the Akhilesh Yadav government, was returning from the function at a degree college around midnight.

Police said the girl, like many other girls from a school at Shukul Bazaar, went to the event but got delayed as the Social Welfare Minister Avdhesh Prasda, the chief guest at the function, arrived at 10 p.m. instead of the scheduled 3 p.m.