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  • 16-year-old pregnant after being raped in UP; accused held

    By PTI
    CHITRAKOOT: A 24-year-old man has been arrested on the charges of raping and impregnating a 16-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot district, police said on Monday.

    The girl’s father had lodged a police complaint against the man, following which he was arrested on Sunday, Karvi Station House Officer (SHO) Virendra Tripathi said.

    Two months ago, the accused had called the minor to his house on the pretext of watching television, and raped her after threatening to kill her, the SHO said, citing the complaint.

    “The girl was sent for medical examination and was found two months pregnant,” Tripathi said.

  • Double murder of Kamal Nath’s kin: UP cops pick up 2 for grilling after raids in MP

    Express News Service
    BHOPAL: Investigations into the double murder of ex-Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath’s distant cousin and sister-in-law in Greater Noida have led the Uttar Pradesh police to Gwalior city of the central Indian state.

    A UP police team conducted raids in Govardhan Colony and Sainik Colony in the Gole Ka Mandir police station area of Gwalior on Saturday.

    At least two persons, both related to key suspects in the double murder, were picked up by the UP police for questioning, key police sources in Gwalior said.

    While one of those picked up by UP cops for questioning is aged around 50 years, the other person is a youth.

    While the middle-aged man is the father of the key suspect in the murder case, the youth too is related to another suspect.

    On Friday, Kamal Nath’s distant cousin Narendra Nath (70) and sister-in-law Suman Nath (65) were found dead in the basement of the building in Alpha II Sector in Greater Noida.

    Multiple police teams were constituted by UP police to probe the high-profile double killing.

  • Four men booked for gang-raping 35-year-old woman following court orders in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI
    CHITRAKOOT: Police have registered a case against four people for allegedly raping a 35-year-old Dalit woman in Chitrakoot district in Uttar Pradesh, following a court’s orders.

    SHO of Karvi police station Virendra Tripathi on Saturday said that in compliance with the orders of the court, a case of gangrape was registered against four persons under various sections of the IPC and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

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    A woman working at a government hospital has been made an accused for hatching conspiracy.

    The accused are yet to be arrested.

    The SHO said the woman accused on November 9, 2020 had taken the Dalit woman to Chitrakoot and then to Devangana Marg where she was raped by the four men.

    The SHO said the Dalit woman has alleged that when she had gone to lodge a complaint at Kotwali police station, she was turned away.

  • FIR against farmers’ family for allgedly insulting national flag

    By PTI
    PILIBHIT: The mother and brother of a farmer, who died in a road accident near the Ghazipur protest site, have been booked along with another person for allegedly insulting the national flag after a video of his last rites here showed the body draped in the Tricolour, police said Friday.

    According to the flag code of India, draping the Tricolour in a civilian funeral is an offence.

    The farmer had gone to the farmers’ protest site on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border and died in an accident near there, police said.

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    “Baljindra, a resident of Bari Bujhia village in Sehramau area had gone to participate in the farmers’ agitation on January 23 with his friends. He died in a mishap on January 25 and is body was kept in a mortuary as that of an unidentified person. His family members came to know about the incident on February 2 and they brought the body here,” Superintendent of Police, Jai Prakash Yadav, said.

    “The family members covered the body with the national flag like that of a martyr and took it for last rites on Thursday. The video of the last rites went viral on social media after which an FIR was registered against Baljindra’s mother Jasvir Kaur, brother Gurvinder and one unidentified,” the SP said.

    Thousands of farmers are camping at Delhi borders since November demanding that the Centre take back the three agri laws enacted last September and guarantee minimum support price for crops.

    The Centre has maintained that the laws are pro-farmer.

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  • 80-year-old woman raped in Uttar Pradesh village

    By PTI
    MAHOBA: An 80-year-old woman was allegedly raped in a village in Kharela area here, police said on Friday.

    The incident took place on February 2 when the woman was alone in the house as her family members were out attending a religious function, SHO, Kharela, Anil Kumar said.

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    A complaint was lodged by the victim’s grandson who alleged that two people entered the house from the terrace and one of them identified as Phoolchandra alias Phullu raped the woman, Kumar said.

    An FIR was registered against Phoolchandra, a resident of Jalalpur area in Hamirpur and an unidentified person on Thursday, the SHO said.

    Kumar said the accused are absconding.

  • UP cops most cruel in India? State police tops in atrocities in 2020-21

    Express News Service
    NEW DELHI:  Over 11,000 complaints of human rights violations have been registered against police officials in the financial year 2020-2021, with 5,388 such cases being reported from UP alone, according to information from the Home Ministry. 

    In the last three years, the NHRC has recommended monetary relief of Rs 20.42 crore in 784 cases of police brutality, disciplinary action in 48 cases and prosecution in one case, the data shows.  

    MoS for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy shared the details with Parliament on Wednesday in response to a question by Congress MP Rajeev Satav on violation of human rights by police personnel.

    Reddy said the NHRC registers cases for the alleged violation of human rights under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993. 

    As many as 11,130 cases have been registered by NHRC on complaints about alleged violation of human rights by police officials in the country  in the year 2020-2021.

    The number of such cases have decreased when compared to last three years.

    Last year, 17,229 cases of human rights violations were filed by the NHRC and during 2018-2019, as many as 28,342 cases were filed. During 2017-2018, 26,391 cases were registered by NHRC on complaints about alleged violation of human rights by police officials. 

    According to the statistics, as of January 15, 2021,  maximum cases of human rights violations by police personnel were reported from UP, followed by Delhi (940), Tamil Nadu (575), Bihar (562), Haryana (408), Andhra Pradesh (384), Rajasthan (352), MP (341), Telangana (288), Maharashtra (246),West Bengal (231), Odisha (229), Jharkhand (222), Karnataka (175), Uttarakhand (156), Gujarat,  (136), and Punjab (125). 

  • Kanpur cops ask disabled elderly woman to pay for fuel to launch search for her kidnapped daughter

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: The inhuman face of Kanpur police was exposed yet again when they allegedly demanded money for fuel from an elderly physically challenged widow to launch a search for her missing minor daughter.

    Taking strict action against the erring cops of Chakeri police station, Kanpur SSP/DIG suspended two SIs with immediate effect and issued orders to recover the girl at the earliest.

    Following the crackdown by the senior officials, the girl who had gone missing from the Chakeri locality of Kanpur on January 7, was rescued from the residence of her relative Thakur at Naubasta, another locality in the city on Wednesday evening. The minor was living with Thakur at his place. Thakur was arrested and sent to jail.

    To her utter shock, despite repeated visits to the police station, the woman failed to get any respite and was asked to pay for the fuel. Following this, the woman met Kanpur SSP/DIG Preetinder Singh and narrated her ordeal.

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    The woman, who lodged an FIR on January 9, alleged that her daughter was kidnapped by one of her distant relatives. Though an FIR was filed, police took no initiative to look into the matter, she further said.

    After hearing the woman, the SSP/DIG went through her complaint which said that Sanigwan police out-post in-charge Rajpal Singh had forced her to spent Rs 10,000 to 15,000 for arranging fuel for the police vehicles to launch a search for her missing daughter. The SSP/DIG issued orders to suspend Rajpal Singh and inquiry officer Sub-Inspector Arun Kumar for dereliction of duty and ordered a probe into the issue.

    “A probe has been ordered into the alleged police apathy in the case,” SSP/DIG Preetinder Singh said, adding that four teams were set up under the supervision of Circle Officer Cantt to search the woman’s minor daughter as early as possible.

    The issue came to the fore when the video of the woman visiting the SSP/DIG office on crutches went viral on social media. The video clip drew the wrath of netizens who went on to ask the police to act tough against the erring personnel.

    Speaking to media persons at the SSP/DIG’s office, the woman said that she had filed a case about her missing daughter last month. The police, however, did not pay heed to her complaint. “They then said if I fill diesel in their vehicles, they will search for my daughter,” said the woman.

    She claimed that she had borrowed and paid Rs 10,000 to 15,000 for fuel of the police vehicles to get her missing daughter rescued.

  • Four persons booked for posting objectionable remarks against BJP on social media

    By PTI
    BALLIA: An FIR has been lodged against four persons for allegedly posting objectionable comments against the RSS and BJP on social media, police said on Monday.

    The FIR was lodged on RSS functionary Ajay Pandey’s complaint at the Rasda police station on Sunday.

    Pandey, police said, alleged that Sushil Shrivastava and three unnamed persons made objectionable comments against the RSS and BJP on WhatsApp.

    A probe is on in the matter.

  • UP: Teen booked for rape after Unnao girl gives birth

    By PTI
    UNNAO: A teenager has been booked for alleged rape in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district after a 15-year-old girl gave birth to a child, police said on Monday.

    According to a complaint by the girl’s grandfather, the boy, who lives in the neighbourhood, allegedly raped the girl when she was alone in the House.

    The complainant said he did not lodge an FIR earlier due to social stigma.

    The boy, around 16 years old, was held on Friday by the police and produced before the Juvenile Justice Board and sent to a juvenile home, an officer said.

    The suspect has been booked on the charges of rape, criminal intimidation and under the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act on Friday after the girl gave birth to a baby boy in district hospital Thursday.

    “We will be going for his DNA test after consent of his parents to ascertain the reality,” the officer said.

    While the suspect is a high school dropout, the girl and her two younger siblings are living with their maternal grandfather after death of their mother, police said.

  • Woman crushed to death by dumper truck in Kanpur; locals vandalise police outpost, torch vehicles

    By PTI
    KANPUR: Angry over a woman’s death in a road accident, locals torched three dumper trucks and vandalised a police outpost in Pipargawan village located under the Bidhunoo police station in this Uttar Pradesh district, officials said on Friday.

    The agitating mob also torched three two-wheelers parked at the Kuria police outpost and later, made an abortive attempt to set the police outpost ablaze, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Brajesh Kumar Srivastava said.

    The situation is now under control, the SP said, adding that police and Provincial Armed Constabulary personnel have been deployed in strength in the area to deal with any exigency.

    The SP told reporters that Maya Devi (44), a resident of Gurwa Kheda village in Bidhunoo, was on her way home from Chakeri on Thursday when she was crushed to death by a dumper truck carrying soil for a government project.

    Rumour spread that the woman was run over by a truck involved in illegal soil-mining while it was transporting material to the dedicated freight corridor project site, the officer said.

    Infuriated over the incident, locals set three dumper trucks afire and vandalised the police outpost, the SP said, adding that the mob also torched three two-wheelers and tried to set the outpost ablaze.

    “Those who took law in their hands and were involved in vandalism will certainly be identified and brought to book. Efforts are on to establish the identity of the miscreants at the earliest,” he said.

    An FIR has been registered in this connection, the police said.