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  • BJP MLA’s son, 2 others booked for assaulting liquor shop owner in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI
    SHAHJAHANPUR: An FIR has been registered against the son of a BJP MLA and two others for allegedly beating a liquor shop owner in Puwayan area here, police said on Wednesday.

    The incident took place on Tuesday following which locals blocked the Puwayan-Pallia highway in protest and demanded that the police book the culprits.

    According to police, Neeraj Verma, son of BJP legislator from Puwayan Chetram Verma, and his two associates thrashed Shankar Verma, owner of the country liquor shop, following an argument.

    Additional SP, Praveen Kumar said an FIR was registered against Neeraj Verma and others on the basis of a complaint lodged by Shankar Verma.

    However, the BJP MLA claimed that some people were having liquor in front of his son’s office and when he objected, they clashed with him.

    “Some villagers reached his office and resorted to sloganeering.

    This is a political conspiracy against me and unnecessary hue and cry is being created over a petty issue by my rivals,” the MLA said.

  • UP Police team in Mumbai to probe case against ‘Mirzapur’ makers

    By PTI
    MIRZAPUR: A local police team is in Mumbai after the registration of a case against makers of web series “Mirzapur” for allegedly outraging religious sentiments and provoking the breach of peace, a senior official said on Friday.

    Mirzapur Range IG Piyush Kumar told PTI that in the FIR lodged on January 17, it has been alleged that the web series tried to malign the image of Mirzapur, which is a historic and religious place, having no relation with crime as shown in it.

    Arvind Chaturvedi, a resident of Chilbila in Chunar, said in his complaint that the people of the place are peace loving and hardworking.

    “A team has been formed under Inspector (Dehat Kotwali) Vijay Kumar Chaurasiya. The team includes Sub-Inspector Alok Kumar and Constable Vinay Kumar.

    The team is already in Mumbai and trying to seek the help of the Mumbai Police in the case lodged against the web series,” the IG said.

    The FIR was lodged under Sections 295A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 505 (statements conducing to public statements to mischief of the IPC, along with sections of the Information Technology Act.

    Meanwhile, Apna Dal spokesperson Rajesh Patel said the issue was first raised by his party president Anupriya Patel in Delhi at the time of the release of the web series.

    BJP legal cell member Dilip Shrivastava said, “Web series makers have intentionally tried to malign the place as the state government is trying to develop it as a big tourism centre.”

    The Supreme Court too on Thursday had sought responses from the Centre, Amazon Prime Video and Excel Entertainment Pvt Ltd on a plea which has alleged that the web series has “completely tarnished” the historical and cultural image of the place by showing it as a “city of goons”.

    Mirzapur is known for its Vindyachal temple dedicated to goddess Durga.

  • UP woman officer accuses man of raping, blackmailing her 

    By PTI
    PRATAPGARH: A woman officer posted in Lalganj tehsil here has lodged a complaint against a man accusing him of raping and blackmailing her, police said on Saturday.

    Acting on the complaint, the police on Friday arrested the accused belonging to Basantpur in Shahjahanpur district, Station House Officer Ram Adhar said.

    The woman officer had lodged a complaint with the police on January 2 alleging the man used to beat and harass her during the days when she was taking coaching and had also made an obscene video and pictures of her, Adhar said.

    The officer alleged that when she got a job in a bank in Bareilly, the accused used to come there and harass her, he said citing the complaint of the woman.

    On her selection in the Provincial Civil Service, she was posted in Pratapgarh in 2017 and the woman officer said the accused used to come to her officers’ colony residence there, the SHO said, adding the man, along with his two associates, had come again there on December 18 last year but fled when she raised an alarm.

    The woman has also alleged that the accused used to blackmail her family on the basis of the obscene video, Adhar said.

    Based on her complaint, an FIR has been lodged against the accused and further probe is underway, the police officer said.

  • Five booked for bid to set family ablaze in UP’s Rae Bareli

    By PTI
    RAE BARELI: Five people have been booked for allegedly attempting to set a family ablaze over a land dispute in Rae Bareli’s Salon area, police said on Tuesday.

    Superintendent of Police Shlok Kumar said the incident took place on January 2 when Ataganj village residents Devprakash Patel, his sons Devnath and Deendayal and daughter Durgadevi were sleeping in their thatched house.

    The family members had a narrow escape from the rear door of their house, he added.

    On the basis of a complaint lodged by the family, a case has been registered against village head Tahir, Rehan, Ali Ahmed, Imtiyaz and Dwarika Singh.

    Rehan, Ali Ahmed and Imtiyaz were arrested on Monday.

    The SP ruled out that the attack was linked to the family’s conversion to Hinduism from Islam last year.

    So far, the incident can’t be linked to what happened last year, the SP said.