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  • ATS Arrests Indian Embassy Employee Posted In Moscow For Spying For Pakistan’s ISI

    Satendra was providing critical and confidential information to ISI handlers in exchange for financial gains. 

  • BSP MP Danish Ali backs Azam Khan’s ‘we can get encountered’ statement

    By ANI

    NEW DELHI: Backing Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s statement on UP Police, Bahujan Samaj Party MP Danish Ali said that it is a serious matter and that there shouldn’t be much ‘hue and cry’ about his statement.

    Supporting Azam Khan’s statement, BSP leader Danish Ali said “Azam Khan has given a statement in the context of the current regime of Uttar Pradesh government, custodial killings of former MPs and MLAs are taking place in Uttar Pradesh.”

    “There shouldn’t be any hue and cry over his statement. This is a serious matter, and Azam Khan’s statement needs to be taken seriously,” he said.

    Targeting the Uttar Pradesh Government, BSP MP Danish Ali said, “Azam Khan’s family members, who are in judicial custody, are being shifted from Rampur jail to different jails, so this shows the attitude of the government”.

    The Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday night shifted Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam to different jails from Rampur.

    Before sitting inside the police car, Azam Khan was seen speaking to the media. He said, “Anything can happen to us; we can get encountered in between our journeys.”

    Visuals showed, Abdullah Azam being taken in a police van amid heavy security. Although his wife Tanzeem Fatima was not shifted to any different location, she is in Rampur jail.

    Azam Khan, his wife Tanzeem Fatima, and his son Abdullah Azam, who were convicted by a court in Uttar Pradesh on October 18 in a fake birth certificate case, were awarded a seven-year jail term and a fine of Rs 15,000 to all three of them.

    Notably, gangster-turned politicians Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmad were shot dead by assailants posing as journalists on April 15 outside the hospital in Prayagraj.

    Ahmed and his brother, Ashraf, both in handcuffs, were speaking to journalists on the way to a medical check-up at a hospital seconds before they were both shot.

    Atiq was brought back to Prayagraj from Gujarat to appear in a local court as it announced his sentencing in a kidnapping case.

    Atiq Ahmed was accused in the 2005 murder of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Raju Pal and also in the killing of a key witness in that case, Umesh Pal, in February this year.  Follow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp

    NEW DELHI: Backing Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s statement on UP Police, Bahujan Samaj Party MP Danish Ali said that it is a serious matter and that there shouldn’t be much ‘hue and cry’ about his statement.

    Supporting Azam Khan’s statement, BSP leader Danish Ali said “Azam Khan has given a statement in the context of the current regime of Uttar Pradesh government, custodial killings of former MPs and MLAs are taking place in Uttar Pradesh.”

    “There shouldn’t be any hue and cry over his statement. This is a serious matter, and Azam Khan’s statement needs to be taken seriously,” he said.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    Targeting the Uttar Pradesh Government, BSP MP Danish Ali said, “Azam Khan’s family members, who are in judicial custody, are being shifted from Rampur jail to different jails, so this shows the attitude of the government”.

    The Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday night shifted Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam to different jails from Rampur.

    Before sitting inside the police car, Azam Khan was seen speaking to the media. He said, “Anything can happen to us; we can get encountered in between our journeys.”

    Visuals showed, Abdullah Azam being taken in a police van amid heavy security. Although his wife Tanzeem Fatima was not shifted to any different location, she is in Rampur jail.

    Azam Khan, his wife Tanzeem Fatima, and his son Abdullah Azam, who were convicted by a court in Uttar Pradesh on October 18 in a fake birth certificate case, were awarded a seven-year jail term and a fine of Rs 15,000 to all three of them.

    Notably, gangster-turned politicians Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmad were shot dead by assailants posing as journalists on April 15 outside the hospital in Prayagraj.

    Ahmed and his brother, Ashraf, both in handcuffs, were speaking to journalists on the way to a medical check-up at a hospital seconds before they were both shot.

    Atiq was brought back to Prayagraj from Gujarat to appear in a local court as it announced his sentencing in a kidnapping case.

    Atiq Ahmed was accused in the 2005 murder of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Raju Pal and also in the killing of a key witness in that case, Umesh Pal, in February this year.  Follow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp

  • Two held for cooking non-veg, smoking hookah on boat at Sangam in Prayagraj

    By PTI

    PRAYAGRAJ: The police on Saturday arrested two of the six people booked for allegedly cooking non-veg and smoking hookah on a boat at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers here, officials said.

    A 30-second video of the purported incident surfaced on the Internet recently leading to the registration of a case by the police.

    Hassan Ahmed and Mohammad Asif were arrested on Saturday by the Daraganj police.

    An FIR was registered against them in connection with the hookah and meat party on the moving boat on August 30, a release by the police stated.

    Ahmed and Asif, residents of Bakshi Khurd in Daraganj, were arrested near Ganga Murti trisection, it said.

    Circle Officer Aastha Jaiswal had said Daraganj is a pilgrimage site and people are expected not to do anything that can hurt religious sentiments.

    The rest of the accused are being identified and arrests will be made soon, he said.

    In the FIR lodged on Wednesday, the six people have been accused of hurting religious sentiments and defiling a place of worship, the police said.

    The 30-second video purportedly caught the scene on a moving boat close to Prayagraj’s Daraganj.

    The men appeared to be cooking chicken on skewers.

    PRAYAGRAJ: The police on Saturday arrested two of the six people booked for allegedly cooking non-veg and smoking hookah on a boat at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers here, officials said.

    A 30-second video of the purported incident surfaced on the Internet recently leading to the registration of a case by the police.

    Hassan Ahmed and Mohammad Asif were arrested on Saturday by the Daraganj police.

    An FIR was registered against them in connection with the hookah and meat party on the moving boat on August 30, a release by the police stated.

    Ahmed and Asif, residents of Bakshi Khurd in Daraganj, were arrested near Ganga Murti trisection, it said.

    Circle Officer Aastha Jaiswal had said Daraganj is a pilgrimage site and people are expected not to do anything that can hurt religious sentiments.

    The rest of the accused are being identified and arrests will be made soon, he said.

    In the FIR lodged on Wednesday, the six people have been accused of hurting religious sentiments and defiling a place of worship, the police said.

    The 30-second video purportedly caught the scene on a moving boat close to Prayagraj’s Daraganj.

    The men appeared to be cooking chicken on skewers.

  • Rotis fit for dogs: UP cop breaks down over quality of mess food, video goes viral

    By PTI

    FIROZABAD: A video of a constable bursting into tears and sitting on a dharna over the “poor” quality food provided by the mess at the police lines here has prompted the department to order an inquiry.

    In the clip that surfaced on social media on Wednesday, constable Manoj Kumar was seen staging a protest with a plate of food from the mess.

    Kumar was also heard referring to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s promise to give Rs 1,875 separately for provisions of nutritious food for police constables.

    Taking note of the issue, Senior Superintendent of Police Ashish Tiwari has ordered an inquiry.

    The SSP said the matter has been noted and Circle Officer (City) Abhishek Srivastava has been asked to probe the quality of food provided by the mess.

    The official added that 15 cases were pending against the constable, including indiscipline and remaining absent from duty, and Circle Officer, Police Lines, Hira Lal Kanaujia has been asked to probe them.

    FIROZABAD: A video of a constable bursting into tears and sitting on a dharna over the “poor” quality food provided by the mess at the police lines here has prompted the department to order an inquiry.

    In the clip that surfaced on social media on Wednesday, constable Manoj Kumar was seen staging a protest with a plate of food from the mess.

    Kumar was also heard referring to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s promise to give Rs 1,875 separately for provisions of nutritious food for police constables.

    Taking note of the issue, Senior Superintendent of Police Ashish Tiwari has ordered an inquiry.

    The SSP said the matter has been noted and Circle Officer (City) Abhishek Srivastava has been asked to probe the quality of food provided by the mess.

    The official added that 15 cases were pending against the constable, including indiscipline and remaining absent from duty, and Circle Officer, Police Lines, Hira Lal Kanaujia has been asked to probe them.

  • Uttar Pradesh police mourn loss of explosive detection dog ‘Oli’

    By PTI

    GONDA: The Uttar Pradesh police has lost one of its most loyal workers.

    After serving the department for more than 10 years, constable ‘Oli’, a dog that specialised in explosive detection, died here on Saturday.

    A condolence parade was organised for Oli.

    The carcass of the canine was placed in front of the martyr memorial at the Police Lines and the men in khaki bid a tearful farewell to their colleague.

    Born on March 10, 2011, Oli was trained to sniff out explosives at the National Dog Training Centre in Gwalior’s Tekanpur under the supervision of handler Tulsi Sonkar, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Shivraj said.

    After completing the six-month training period, Oli was admitted to the rank of constable at the local Police Lines on June 17, 2012.

    Over the last 10 years, Oli was instrumental in apprehending criminals and finding out hidden explosives on multiple occasions.

    In April 2014, Oli helped police unearth a huge cache of ammunition kept hidden in the Topkhana locality under Kotwali Nagar.

    In October 2015, a pile of gunpowder buried under bricks and stones was discovered by Oli amid rumours of a cylinder burst in Khargupur town.

    In May 2016, Oli found a bomb in a pile of garbage near a railway station under the Kotwali Nagar police station in Bahraich district.

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    In December 2019, the dog traced a hand grenade kept hidden in a bush in the Katra Bazar police station area.

    In November 2021, Oli found gunpowder buried in a house near Tikri town within the Wazirganj police station limits, the ASP said.

    Oli died while on duty on Saturday evening.

    The officer said the dog was a member of the police family.

    The department was spending Rs 18,000 per month on its food and Rs 3,000 for treatment purposes.

    READ HERE | Karnataka Forest Department’s Sniffer dog Rana laid to rest with state honours

    GONDA: The Uttar Pradesh police has lost one of its most loyal workers.

    After serving the department for more than 10 years, constable ‘Oli’, a dog that specialised in explosive detection, died here on Saturday.

    A condolence parade was organised for Oli.

    The carcass of the canine was placed in front of the martyr memorial at the Police Lines and the men in khaki bid a tearful farewell to their colleague.

    Born on March 10, 2011, Oli was trained to sniff out explosives at the National Dog Training Centre in Gwalior’s Tekanpur under the supervision of handler Tulsi Sonkar, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Shivraj said.

    After completing the six-month training period, Oli was admitted to the rank of constable at the local Police Lines on June 17, 2012.

    Over the last 10 years, Oli was instrumental in apprehending criminals and finding out hidden explosives on multiple occasions.

    In April 2014, Oli helped police unearth a huge cache of ammunition kept hidden in the Topkhana locality under Kotwali Nagar.

    In October 2015, a pile of gunpowder buried under bricks and stones was discovered by Oli amid rumours of a cylinder burst in Khargupur town.

    In May 2016, Oli found a bomb in a pile of garbage near a railway station under the Kotwali Nagar police station in Bahraich district.

    ALSO READ | RIP ‘Axel’: Army dog killed during anti-terrorist operation in Kashmir valley

    In December 2019, the dog traced a hand grenade kept hidden in a bush in the Katra Bazar police station area.

    In November 2021, Oli found gunpowder buried in a house near Tikri town within the Wazirganj police station limits, the ASP said.

    Oli died while on duty on Saturday evening.

    The officer said the dog was a member of the police family.

    The department was spending Rs 18,000 per month on its food and Rs 3,000 for treatment purposes.

    READ HERE | Karnataka Forest Department’s Sniffer dog Rana laid to rest with state honours

  • UP: RSS worker thrashed by cops after road rage incident, 10 booked

    By PTI

    BAREILLY: Ten policemen were booked and one of them suspended after they allegedly thrashed an RSS worker at their police post following a road rage incident here.

    RSS and BJP workers blocked the Budaun road after coming to know about the incident.

    According to a complaint given by Budaun native and RSS pracharak Aryanendra Kumar, he was beaten up by Sub-Inspector Ankit Kumar when he could not give space for the policeman’s vehicle to pass.

    Kumar was taken to a police post, where he was kept for more than an hour and beaten up.

    Kumar said the incident took place on Thursday as he was returning home from a hospital where his mother has been admitted for the past several days.

    Sub-Inspector Ankit Kumar has been suspended, Circle Officer Ashish Pratap Singh said.

    He said a case has been registered against Kumar and nine other policemen at the Subhash Nagar police station here.

    When information about this incident reached RSS and BJP workers, dozens of their leaders, including Aonla MP Dharmendra Kashyap, reached there and the Badaun road was blocked.

    Amidst the commotion that lasted till midnight, a complaint was lodged against two sub-inspectors and eight constables accusing them of kidnapping and assaulting the RSS worker while holding him hostage.

    Senior Superintendent of Police Satyarth Anirudh Pankaj said action will be taken against those found guilty.

    BAREILLY: Ten policemen were booked and one of them suspended after they allegedly thrashed an RSS worker at their police post following a road rage incident here.

    RSS and BJP workers blocked the Budaun road after coming to know about the incident.

    According to a complaint given by Budaun native and RSS pracharak Aryanendra Kumar, he was beaten up by Sub-Inspector Ankit Kumar when he could not give space for the policeman’s vehicle to pass.

    Kumar was taken to a police post, where he was kept for more than an hour and beaten up.

    Kumar said the incident took place on Thursday as he was returning home from a hospital where his mother has been admitted for the past several days.

    Sub-Inspector Ankit Kumar has been suspended, Circle Officer Ashish Pratap Singh said.

    He said a case has been registered against Kumar and nine other policemen at the Subhash Nagar police station here.

    When information about this incident reached RSS and BJP workers, dozens of their leaders, including Aonla MP Dharmendra Kashyap, reached there and the Badaun road was blocked.

    Amidst the commotion that lasted till midnight, a complaint was lodged against two sub-inspectors and eight constables accusing them of kidnapping and assaulting the RSS worker while holding him hostage.

    Senior Superintendent of Police Satyarth Anirudh Pankaj said action will be taken against those found guilty.

  • UP cop removed from post, sent to police lines for objectionable comments against Yogi

    By PTI

    BRABANKI: A police official was removed from his post and sent to police lines after a purported video showing him allegedly making objectionable comments against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath came to the fore, officials said on Thursday.

    Station House Officer of Asandra police station Dhyanendra Pratap Singh allegedly the comments against the chief minister while talking to someone in his office room.

    A journalist forwarded a video of this conversation to BJP district president Shashank Kushumesh, who in turn, lodged a complaint against the official with the Superintendent of Police Anurag Vats a couple of days ago.

    Kushumesh alleged that the SHO was trying to create a revolt against the government by making such comments in public.

    Police said an inquiry is underway.

  • Agnipath stir: Protestors to shell out for damages to public properties

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: With the tally of protestors arrested in connection with the anti-Agnipath stir so far by the UP police going up to 1120 with 595 more arrests during the past 24 hours, the police officers are busy making assessment of damages to the public property during the protests as they intend to make the protestors pay for it.

    As per the police department sources, the district police authorities and field officers were directed to initiate a recovery process after identifying the troublemakers who indulged in the destruction of public property during the stir.

    According to Additional Director General of Police ( Law and Order) Prashant Kumar, the police would be generous while dealing with the student protestors keeping their future in mind but making clear that those who indulged in the burning trains, damaging buses, police vehicles, police outposts, chowkies, ransacking the shops, would have to pay for the damages. 

    The ADG claimed that the recovery would be one after the identification of the trouble makers through photographs and video footages. The identification process was already on in districts including Ballia, Varanasi, Aligarh, Mathura, and Agra districts where major violence was reported. “Recovery notice would soon be served on those who were involved in vandalism, arson, and damaging public property,” said another senior police official.

    UP State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) chief general manager, Technical, Sanjay Shukla confirmed that the corporation was asked to assess the damages to the buses during the protests. He claimed that around 40 UPSRTC buses were destroyed on different routes. Similarly, the railway officials are also evaluating the damages to railway property during the stir.

    However, of the total 1120 protestors held so far, 618 were arrested for violation of Section 151 of the CrPC for causing a nuisance, and 502 were arrested for arson and vandalism across 19 different districts, including 12 eastern UP districts. 

    As many as 603 protestors were arrested on the charge of violation of Section 151 of CrPC (Code of Criminal Procedure) for causing a nuisance and were released later.

    Sharing further details, ADG (Law and Order) said a maximum of 90 people were arrested from Mathura and booked in five cases of arson and vandalism, 66 people were arrested from Aligarh in six cases, 54 people from Jaunpur in 11 cases, and 53 people were arrested in Chandauli in seven cases, including one case registered with Government Railway Police (GRP).

    Similarly, 49 people were arrested from Ballia in three cases including one case of GRP, 40 people in four cases of Mirzapur as well as 40 others in two cases of Ghazipur, 36 people in nine cases under the Varanasi police commissionerate, 18 people were arrested in three cases of Deoria and 10 people each in one case each registered at Gautam Buddh Nagar and Firozabad.

    The ADG said nine people were arrested in two cases in Agra, eight people in one case in Fatehgarh, seven people in a case in Mau, four in one case in Sultanpur, three each were arrested in one case in Mainpuri and one case in Gorakhpur while two others were arrested in two separate cases of Hardoi. No arrests were made in one case each registered at Sant Kabir Nagar and Ayodhya, he added.

    He said the arrests under 151 CrPC were made in eight districts, including 159 protestors in Ballia, 316 in Jaunpur, 58 in Aligarh, 27 in Mathura, 25 in Mau, 24 in Hardoi, five in Ayodhya and four in Sultanpur.

  • Kanpur violence: 3 FIRs registered, 500 booked as cops stay alert 

    By PTI

    KANPUR: The Uttar Pradesh Police Saturday booked 500 people for rioting and violence in Kanpur that left 40 injured, official said, as an uneasy calm prevailed in the affected areas this morning.

    Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and order) Anand Prakash Tiwari said 18 people have been arrested so far over the Friday incident, and some others are detained for questioning.

    ALSO READ | Kanpur violence: Mayawati asks UP government to take action by ‘rising above religion, caste’

    “The area is peaceful and we are maintaining a round-the-clock vigil,” he said, adding some suspects were detained overnight by different police teams.

    Three FIRs over rioting and violence have been lodged against over 500 people, Tiwari said.

    READ MORE: Yogi directs strict action as clashes erupt in Kanpur

    The violence broke out in Pared, Nai Sadak and Yateemkhana areas of the city after Friday namaz when some people tried to force shopkeepers to down shutters over allegedly insulting remarks made by BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma during a TV debate recently, a senior police official had said Friday.

    At least 40 people including 20 police personnel were injured during the clashes, police said on Saturday.

    Those who allegedly forced traders to shut shops clashed with police personnel who used batons to disperse the mob.

    Additional Director General (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar has warned that those involved will be booked under the stringent Gangsters Act and their properties seized or demolished. 

  • Lakhimpur violence: Court rejects bail pleas of Ashish Mishra, two others 

    By PTI

    LAKHIMPUR: A court here rejected the bail pleas of Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish and two others in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.

    Eight people, including four farmers, were killed in the violence on October 3 during a protest over Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya’s visit there.

    District and Sessions Judge Mukesh Mishra rejected the bail application of Ashish Mishra, alias Monu; Ashish Pandey; and Lavkush Rana, District Government Counsel Arvind Tripathi said.

    During the around two-hour-long hearing, the prosecution submitted a case diary of the case, forensic and ballistic reports of four firearms received from a forensic science laboratory and statements of 60 eyewitnesses to establish the involvement of the accused, he said.

    He said after hearing arguments, the court rejected the bail applications of the accused.

    A special investigation committee formed to probe the violence had identified 12 other accused in the case and arrested them.