LUCKNOW, Oct. 9 -- Rae Bareli police have dropped the attempt to murder charge against three men accused of attacking a woman and her 12-year-old daughter in Jagatpur area on Wednesday even as the accused secured bail from an SDM court on Friday amid allegations that police failed to disclose that two of them were wanted in a separate case involving an assault on a Dalit woman and her family.

The attacked woman's family had helped a Dalit woman and her relatives get an FIR registered against a village pradhan and his two sons over an alleged assault on Tuesday.

Inspector general of police, Lucknow range, Kiran S said he would personally review the case and have an officer from another district investigate it. The decision to assign the ...