Mumbai, July 28 (IANS) In a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government and Uttar Pradesh Police, the Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray(UBT) on Tuesday accused authorities of launching a politically motivated crackdown against activists Muhammad Junaid and Shadab Saifi, who provided daily food and water to the protesters at Jantar Mantar.In a hard-hitting editorial in its party’s mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, the Thackeray camp detailed how UP Police have targeted Junaid and hi…
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Agartala, July 24 (IANS) Tripura Director General of Police (DGP) on Friday constituted a three‑member team to probe the “mysterious” death of former Director General of Police Anurag, whose body was found at the state police headquarters here on July 20, officials said. An order issued by the office of the DGP said that Superintendent of Police (West Tripura) Namit Pathak would head the probe team. Additional Superintendent of Police (Urban), West Tripura, Dhruba Nath, and Sub‑Inspector…
Ghazipur, July 23 (IANS) A district court in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur on Thursday sentenced a man convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act to 12 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000. The judgment was delivered by POCSO Court Judge Ram Avtar Prasad, who found the accused, Sikandar Rajbhar, guilty of sexually assaulting a minor.Assistant Government Advocate Ram Kumar Rai said that Sikandar Rajbhar, a resident of a village in the Kasimaba…
Baghpat (UP), July 22 (IANS) Director General of Tripura Police (DGP) Anurag was cremated with full state honours at his ancestral town of Baraut in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district on Wednesday, officials said. Anurag’s son, Abhishek, lit the funeral pyre at the cremation ground near Bawli Chungi on the Delhi‑Saharanpur highway in the presence of family members, senior police officers and hundreds of mourners.Before the cremation, the Uttar Pradesh Police accorded a ceremonial guard of ho…
Kolkata, July 18 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s former state president in West Bengal and former Governor of Meghalaya, Tathagata Roy, on Saturday issued a note of caution that the Communists should not regain their lost political significance in the state by taking advantage of the implosion in the Trinamool Congress following its landslide defeat in the recently concluded assembly elections. Roy said in a social media statement, “The BJP must keep a vigilant eye to ensure that the C…
Sambhal, July 17 (IANS) Amid the ongoing demolition drive by the Sambhal administration against illegal encroachments, an ‘Imambara’ along with another structure was razed on Friday in the district’s Mukarrabpur area following a court directive.Authorities said that homeless people belonging to the area will be provided settlements on government land on which structures, including the ‘Imambara’, were “illegally constructed”.Sambhal District Magistrate (DM), Ankit Khandelwal, said that the bulld…
Ghaziabad, July 17 (IANS) In a shocking incident, a 15-year-old died after being allegedly pushed from the fourth floor of a building by her purported stalker in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, police said on Friday.The accused has been arrested by Ghaziabad Police and sections of murder have been added to the First Information Report (FIR), lodged in connection with the case.According to officials, the incident took place on July 15 at around 10 p.m. The accused, who has been identified as 30-year-o…
New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday took on record a status report filed by the Uttar Pradesh Police stating that its investigation found no evidence against former Union Minister Ajay Mishra and his son Ashish Mishra in the alleged witness intimidation case linked to the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana was hearing a matter in which the apex court is monitoring the progress of the Lakh…
Lalitpur (Uttar Pradesh), July 16 (IANS) In a shocking incident of betrayal and sexual assault reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Lalitpur district, a 19-year-old woman was abducted by a man who she was allegedly in a relationship for the last four years and gangraped by him and his friends in a moving car, police said on Thursday.Speaking on the case, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Kalu Singh said: “The victim had been in a relationship with the accused, Badal Raja, for the past four year…
Sambhal (Uttar Pradesh), July 14 (IANS) Acting on a court directive, the district administration on Tuesday carried out the demolition of an allegedly illegal mosque and Eidgah ‘constructed on government land’ in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district. The demolition was undertaken in the Asmoli police station area amid heavy security deployment. Officials said the 25-foot-tall minaret of the Eidgah was brought down first, while the demolition of the remaining structure continued through the afternoon…