UP court rejects Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair's bail plea
Lucknow: A court in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday rejected the bail plea in a case filed against Alt News co-founder and fact-checker Mohammed Zubair, media reports said.
Kasganj case should have high-level inquiry: Mayawati
Lucknow/UNI: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati expressed grief over the suspicious death of a youth in Uttar Pradesh's Kasganj in police custody and demanded a high-level inquiry from the state government.
Terrorists threaten to blow up 46 railway stations across UP
Lucknow/UNI: Uttar Pradesh police has sounded a high alert after a letter from a terrorist organisation threatened to blow up 46 railway stations in the state, here, on Monday.
Twitter India chief moves Karnataka High Court before questioning by UP Police
Bengaluru/IBNS: The Karnataka High Court will hear a petition filed by Twitter India chief Manish Maheshwari, seeking a transit anticipatory bail in a police case filed in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the tweets and the videos shared on the microblogging site about the assault of a Muslim man in the state's Ghaziabad district.
Police shoot one of the men accused of raping, poisoning class 10 student in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut
Meerut/IBNS: Police shot down one of the four men accused of raping a class 10 student in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut as he and one other accused tried to escape police custody while being taken to the court, said media report.
Priyanka slams Yogi over women's security in UP, questions 'Mission Shakti' campaign
Lucknow/UNI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday attacked the Uttar Pradesh government over the issue of women’s safety and questioned Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's ‘Mission Shakti’ as several incidents of crime against women have surfaced in the state while their relatives were threatened, bullied and killed.
UP: Rape victim's father killed in road accident two days after filing FIR
Kanpur/IBNS: The father of a 13-year-old girl, who was allegedly gangraped by three men in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur two days ago, died in a road accident near the hospital where she was taken for medical examination, said media reports.
New Delhi/IBNS: A journalist and three others who were arrested earlier this week by the Uttar Pradesh Police while they were going to meet the family members of the Hathras gang-rape victim have been booked under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and sedition according to an FIR lodged in a police station in Mathura, said a media report.
New Delhi/IBNS: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday to lead the war on rape and end the crisis of justice for the women and children of the country amid widespread outrage over the Hathras incident.
New Delhi/IBNS: Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti has urged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to allow politicians and the media to meet the kin of the 19-year-old Dalit woman, who was allegedly raped two weeks ago and succumbed to her injuries on Tuesday last.
Bhadohi Police arrests all three killers of minor girl within 7 hrs of crime
Lucknow/IBNS: An 11-year-old Dalit girl was found murdered in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi on Thursday, two days after a 19-year-old girl died of grave injuries inflicted on her by four upper-caste men and her hasty cremation by the state police at 2:30 am, keeping her family members locked in their home. However, the state police, which is under fierce criticism, caught the killers of the minor girl within seven hours of the crime.
Kanpur/IBNS: Kanpur district administration on Saturday demolished the house of fugitive gangster Vikas Dubey who along with his accomplices gunned down eight policemen when they went to arrest him in Bikaru village under Chaubeypur Police Station area in Kanpur, media reports said.
Kanpur/UNI/IBNS: After losing eight of its personnel in an encounter, Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday gunned down two close associates of history-sheeter Vikas Dubey in Bikaru village in Choubeypur police station area in Kanpur city.
Change in policing system won't control crime: Mayawati
Lucknow/UNI: Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) supremo and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has questioned the change in the policing system in Lucknow and Noida and blamed the political system for deterioration of law and order in the state.
Imran Khan tweets fake video 'exposing UP police atrocities on Muslims'
Islamabad/IBNS: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday tweeted a fake video that he claimed to 'expose' "Indian police's pogrom against Muslims in UP".