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  • Minor girl beaten to death over insistence to wear jeans in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI
    DEORIA (Uttar Pradesh): A teenage girl died after she was allegedly thrashed by her family members over her insistence to wear jeans at a village here, police said on Thursday.

    Family members have also been accused of trying to dispose of the body by throwing it from over the Patanwa bridge on the Deoria-Kasya here but it got stuck in its railing and was spotted by police later.

    The 17-year-old girl from Savreji Kharg village was severely thrashed by her family members after she insisted on wearing jeans and a top on Monday.

    According to the complaint given by her mother, the girl received serious head injuries when she was beaten up, leading to her death, Circle Officer (City) Yash Tripathi said.

    The post-mortem examination has also confirmed severe injury and fracture in the head, the CO said.

    The girl’s mother has given a complaint against 10 people, including grandparents.

    The case has been registered case under Sections 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), 302 (punishment for murder) and other provisions of the IPC, Mahuadih SHO Ram Mohan Singh said.

    The grandparents have been taken into custody and are being interrogated.

    Police, however, said the story of family members being angry over her insistence on wearing jeans is not very convincing.

    The reason for the incident appears to be something else, which the family members are trying to hide and investigations are on, police said.

  • Take Rs 50,000, hit accused with shoe: UP panchayat tells girl to settle alleged rape case

    By PTI
    GORAKHPUR: A panchayat in Uttar Pradesh’s Maharajganj district has asked a minor girl who was allegedly raped by a boy from her village to settle the matter with him by taking Rs 50,000 from him and hitting him five times with a shoe.

    Not satisfied with the panchayat’s decision, the girl’s family lodged a police complaint, officials said.

    The mother of the girl, a resident of Kothibhar police station area, complained to the village panchayat on June 23 about the alleged rape of her daughter.

    The panchayat asked the girl to settle the matter with the boy accused of raping her by taking Rs 50,000 from him and slapping him five times with a shoe in front of the village council, the police officials said.

    On June 25, the girl’s family lodged a complaint at Kothibhari police as they were not satisfied with the panchayat’s decision, they said.

    After news about the panchayat’s decision went viral on social media, Maharajganj Superintendent of Police Pradeep Gupta on Tuesday directed officials to get the girl’s medical examination done and record her statement.

    “If rape is reported in the medical test, a case will be registered under the relevant provisions of law and further action will be taken,” he said.

  • Man circulates video of him raping woman in UP village on WhatsApp

    By PTI
    SAMBHAL: A 19-year-old woman was allegedly raped in a village in this district when she had gone to a forest to collect fodder, police said on Tuesday.

    The alleged incident took place on June 26 and the accused also recorded the act and circulated the video on social media, they said.

    A complaint regarding the incident was lodged by the woman’s father.

    It was alleged that on June 26, two women of his village took his 19-year-old daughter with them to collect fodder in the forest, where the accused youth raped her, Sambhal Circle Officer (CO) Arun Kumar Singh said.

    On Monday, a case was registered against the youth and the women and efforts are being made to nab them, the CO said, adding the victim has been sent for medical examination.

    Police have taken cognisance of the video circulated by the accused on WhatsApp and relevant sections of the IT Act have also been added, Singh said.

  • ‘Gang war’: Two prisoners shot dead by another in high-security UP jail, attacker killed in police action

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW:  The high-security barrack of the Chitrakoot District Jail in Uttar Pradesh resonated with sounds of gunfire on Friday morning, as two hardened criminals from UP were allegedly gunned down by a fellow jail inmate in an alleged gang war. The third man was later killed by police.

    As per an official statement released later, two prisoners, Meraj alias Bhai Meraj and Mukim alias Kala, were shot dead by fellow jail inmate Anshu Dixit. Coming to know about the shootout which happened at around 10 am, a team of local cops and administration, including the Chitrakoot district magistrate and police superintendent rushed to the jail.

    Subsequently, the third man involved, Anshu Dixit was killed by the police, after he opened fire on the police team, when the cops tried to take him into custody.

    Mukim alias Kala, a West UP gangster (wanted in over 60 cases of murder, loot and other organized crimes in UP, Haryana and Uttarakhand) was shifted from West UP’s Saharanpur Jail to Chitrakoot Jail on May 7, 2021.  Meraz, who was accused in 14 cases, including murder, drug smuggling and extortion in Varanasi and Rae Bareli districts of UP, was shifted from Varanasi Jail to Chitrakoot Jail on March 20, while Anshu Tripathi(wanted in many cases in UP and Bhopal) came from Rae Bareli jail in December 2019, after his video of threatening people over phone from the jail premises had gone viral.

    Meraj was a crucial link between two high-profile and allied UP gangsters – Mukhtar Ansari (also a BSP MLA shifted recently from a Punjab Jail to Banda Jail in UP) and Prem Prakash alias Munna Bajrangi, who was shot dead by a fellow jail inmate at Baghpat Jail of UP in July 2018. Importantly, Bajrangi’s killing in the alleged gang war was the last big killing in a UP jail.

    The UP CM Yogi Adityanath, meanwhile, sought an immediate report from DG (Jail) Anand Kumar within six hours. Initiating actions, ACS (Home) Avnish Awasthi has already released an order suspending the superintendent and jailer of Chitrakoot prison.

    According to DG (Jail) Anand Kumar, the Chitrakoot shootout is a very serious matter, particularly as to how the firearm reached the high-security barrack of the jail. Action will be initiated by the evening, while a judicial probe too will be conducted in the entire incident.

    According to informed sources, the killing of Meraj assumes significance not only because he was a close aide of Munna Bajrangi, but also because he was a key man associated with gangster-turned-BSP MLA from East UP’s Mau seat Mukhtar Ansari, who is lodged at the jail in adjoining Banda district.

    UP police sources in Varanasi-Ghazipur region, who’ve closely followed the decades-old rivalry between two East UP organized criminals gangs (one led by MLA Mukhtar Ansari and other led by MLC Brijesh Singh) confided to The New Indian Express that Meraj (who originally hailed from Ghazipur district, but made neighbouring Varanasi his area of operation) was a key link between allied Munna Bajrangi and Mukhtar Ansari gangs and used to work as their prime face in Varanasi region in extortion and other illegal business.

    Since Munna Bajrangi’s murder, Meraj was handling his remaining business and coordinating with Mukhtar Ansari’s aides. His killing is likely to leave the entire field of railway and road tenders/contracts in UP up for grabs for Mukhtar Ansari-Munna Bajrangi gang’s rivals, including Brijesh Singh and Dhananjay Singh.     

    Meanwhile, BSP MP from East UP’s Ghazipur seat Afzal Ansari (who is jailed MLA Mukhtar Ansari’s elder sibling) called the entire gang war and shootout theory an eyewash. “Was any railway or road building tender bidding process underway in full public view that a gang war happened. This serious security lapse happened in a high-security barrack of a jail, where the courts had sent three prisoners in judicial custody. How can firearms reach a high-security barrack of a jail? The entire incident needs to be probed by a High Court judge and not any SDM level officer, else a few officials and staff of the jail will be suspended and nothing will happen after that.”

    Ansari further linked the incident to the alleged Yogi Adityanath government’s mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Dead bodies are floating in river Ganga and graves on riverbanks are exposing how the pandemic has been mishandled by the present state government, this incident in Chitrakoot Jail is a perfect incident to divert public attention from the pandemic’s mishandling. The incident seems to be a perfect movie plot, which was written, directed and executed by powerful people. Two men who were killed in a gang war and the one who allegedly shot them dead are all dead now, so the entire chapter has been very professionally closed,” the BSP MP alleged.

  • 17-year-old boy dies by suicide inside brick kiln in UP’s Shamli; family alleges murder

    By PTI
    MUZAFFARNAGAR: A 17-year-old boy working as a labourer at a brick kiln in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district has allegedly hanged himself, with his family claiming he was murdered, police said on Wednesday.

    The body was found hanging inside the factory in Kiwana village under the Kandhla police station limits on Tuesday, Station House Officer (SHO) Rozant Tyagi said.

    An investigation is underway, and the victim’s family has alleged that it is a case of murder, the police said.

    The body was sent for an autopsy, Tyagi added.

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  • Dalit youth held captive in UP, tortured by 4 men on suspicion of having affair with their kin

    By PTI
    LAKHIMPUR KHERI: A 22-year-old Dalit man was allegedly held captive and tortured by four people, who also inserted an iron rod in his rectum, here on suspicion that he was having an affair with a girl of their family, police said on Friday.

    The accused have been arrested and the victim rushed to the district hospital where his condition was stated to be serious, they said.

    According to police, on Wednesday night the Dalit man was mercilessly beaten by the accused causing injuries in his private parts.

    The victim’s family members alleged that an iron rod was also inserted in his rectum, they said.

    Tikonia SHO Gyan Prakash Tiwari said, “On the complaint by the victim’s brother, an FIR under IPC section 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and  SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, has been lodged against four persons.” They had suspected that the victim was having an affair with their kin, he said.

    “All the four accused, Bramhadeen and his three sons Bharat, Gajraj and Raju, have been arrested,” Tiwari said, adding a detailed probe into the matter is on.

  • Man charged under NSA for kidnap-murder of boy in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI
    BAHRAICH: The authorities have slapped charges under the stringent National Security Act on a man for allegedly kidnapping a 12-year-old boy for ransom and subsequently killing him in Bahraich district in Uttar Pradesh last year, police said on Sunday.

    The district administration had invoked charges under the NSA against Hasan Mohammad in February, the police said.

    Under the NSA, one can be detained without a charge for up to 12 months if the authorities are satisfied that the person is a threat to national security or law and order.

    According to Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Ashok Kumar, accused Hasan Mohammad, his son Kaleem and four other family members had abducted the 12-year-old boy on October 29 last year when he was going to coaching classes.

    They had demanded a ransom of Rs 30 lakh from the family of the boy, a resident of Majhauli village in the Matera police station area.

    The accused later killed the boy and threw his body in a canal.

    On a complaint lodged by the boy’s father, a case was registered against Hasan, his son Kaleem and four other family members, including three women.

    Police said the boy was kidnapped and killed days after his father had objected to Kaleem not undergoing quarantine as required under the coronavirus guidelines following his return from Mumbai where he used to run a food stall.

    Authorities sent Kaleem to quarantine after a complaint was received from the boy’s father which angered him and his family, the police said.

  • 15-year-old girl raped by uncle, left unconscious in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi

    By PTI
    AMETHI: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her uncle and left in an unconscious state in a village in Mohanganj area here, police said on Wednesday.

    The incident took place on March 8 when the girl was supposed to be taken by her uncle to her maternal aunt’s place but instead was escorted to an orchard where she was raped by him, the victim’s mother alleged in the FIR.

    The mother said the accused left her daughter in the field in an unconscious state after committing the rape and fled the place.

    She came to know about it on Monday when someone saw the girl lying motionless in the orchard.

    Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Vinod Kumar Pandey said police is trying to catch hold of the accused who is absconding.

    A detailed probe is on in the matter.

  • Man kills minor girl, assaults her cousin after failed rape bid in UP’s Shahjahanpur

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: Police arrested a 35-year-old man two days after he allegedly killed a four-year-old girl and left her seven-year-old cousin unconscious in a field after a failed attempt to rape the girls in UP’s Shahjahanpur district on Monday afternoon.

    As per the Shajahanpur police sources, a person named Anil aka Chameli Kanjad was arrested in connection with the attack on two minors. The police claimed that the accused had admitted that he lured the girls to the fields with a packet of biscuits and tried to rape them. He attacked the girls with an iron rod when they began to cry.

    The body of one of the girls was found in the field on Monday and her seven-year-old cousin, who sustained several injuries, was found 100 metres away. Her condition is stated to be critical. 

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    An FIR under IPC Sections 302 (murder) and 307 (attempt to murder) has been registered. However, following the arrest, Sections 376 (rape) of the IPC and Sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act have been added to the original FIR.

    Police said the accused used to frequently visit the girls’ native village for killing wild animals and selling the carcasses.

    On the fateful day, the accused was allegedly passing through the village on a bicycle when he spotted the girls bathing near a primary school. He lured them with two packets of biscuits.

    As per a police officer, the accused Anil took the girls to a secluded spot and tried to rape the elder girl. When she resisted, the four-year-old started crying and it infuriated the accused. He got panicked and hit the elder sister with a gardening tool following which she fell unconscious. While he was trying to strangle her, the younger one ran to save her life. But the accused chased and killed her by hitting her on the head.

  • BSP leader shot dead over old enmity in UP’s Azamgarh

    By PTI
    AZAMGARH: A local BSP leader was shot dead in the Mehnagar police station area in this Uttar Pradesh district allegedly over an old rivalry, police said on Tuesday.

    Motorcycle-borne assailants opened fire on Kalamuddin Khan (60) late on Monday evening, when he was sitting in front of his house.

    Khan was rushed to the community health centre in Lalganj and was subsequently taken to a Varanasi hospital in a serious condition, where he was declared dead, the police said.

    An FIR has been lodged against six people, including a former village head, and three of them have been arrested.

    An old rivalry is stated to be the cause behind the crime, Superintendent of Police (SP) Sudhir Kumar Singh said. Khan also had a criminal record.

    He had six cases, including two of murder, against him, the SP said, adding that these days, he was living in Lucknow along with his son and working as a property dealer.

    Khan had returned here on Sunday.

    Four police teams have been constituted and raids are being carried out to nab the other culprits, the SP said.

    Khan had contested the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls on a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket twice.