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  • Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Khabbu Tiwari jailed for five years for using fake mark sheet

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: BJP MLA from Ayodhya’s Gosaiganj seat, Indra Pratap alias Khabbu Tiwari, has been disqualified from the membership of the UP Assembly following his conviction in a 28-year-old case, Vidhan Sabha secretariat said here on Thursday.

    Tiwari was sentenced to five years in jail by a Special Court for using a fake mark sheet to get admission in college.

    According to a notification issued by Pradeep Kumar Dubey, Vidhan Sabha principal secretary, Gosaiganj seat will be considered vacated from October 18, 2021.

    Special Judge Puja Singh of MP/MLA court Ayodhya had delivered the verdict on October 18 after which Tiwari was taken in custody and sent to jail.

    The court had also slapped a fine of Rs 8,000 on him.

    A case was lodged against Tiwari in 1992 by Yaduvansh Ram Tripathi, the then Principal of Saket Degree College in Ayodhya at Ram Janmabhoomi Police Station, accusing him of using a fake mark sheet to get admission.

  • Allahabad HC issues notice to Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya in house dispute case

    By PTI

    ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad High Court has issued a notice to Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad Maurya seeking his reply on allegations that he asked the senior superintendent of police to help a woman vacate a man from his house here.

    The two-judge bench comprising Justice Manoj Gupta and Justice O P Tripathi was hearing a writ petition filed by one Vishnu Murti Tripathi.

    During the last hearing on October 6, the court had said that according to the plea, the petitioner was vacated from his house allotted here under the Kalindipuram Awas Yojana on June 6, 2018, with the “intervention of the state machinery”.

    The woman “had requested possession of the house…on the basis of a certain enquiry report and the SSP was directed to take necessary steps”, it said.

    “It has further been alleged that with oblique motives, the petitioner was thereafter implicated in a false case by lodging an FIR against him,” it said.

    The petitioner filed complaints with various authorities but they did not pay heed, following which he approached the court.

    The next hearing in the case will be held on January 10, 2022.

  • Uttar Pradesh: School manager, held for trying to rape minor girl student, remanded to judicial custody

    By PTI

    MUZAFFARNAGAR: A school manager arrested for allegedly trying to rape a minor girl after taking her to another school in the Purkazi area of the district, was on Tuesday remanded to judicial custody.

    Special Judge Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari, heading a special court set up under the provisions of the POCSO Act, remanded the arrested school manager Yogesh Chouhan to judicial custody till December 21.

    While Chouhan was arrested, the police are on the lookout for another school manager Arjun.

    The two school managers had taken a batch of 17 girl students for practical examination to another school, where they had to stay overnight, Muzaffarnagar’s Superintendent of Police Abhishek Yadav said.

    During the night stay at another school, the managers had tried to rape two girls after giving them water laced with some stupefying substance, police said.

    The incident came to light when the girls returned home and narrated their woes to their parents, who reported the matter to the Purkazi police station, which, however, did not take up the matter promptly.

    The two school managers, however, were booked following the intervention of local BJP MLA Pramod Utwal.

    Purkazi police station’s SHO V K Singh too was transferred to the police lines for alleged dereliction of his duty in the matter.

    The two school managers were booked under sections 328 (for causing hurt by poison, etc., with intent to commit an offence) and 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code and sections 7 and 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.

  • PM Modi inaugurates AIIMS, fertiliser plant in Gorakhpur ahead of Uttar Pradesh assembly polls

    By PTI

    GORAKHPUR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday dedicated to the nation three mega projects, including an AIIMS and a major fertiliser plant, in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s home turf Gorakhpur.

    The other projects he inaugurated is a Regional Medical Research Centre of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

    The three big-ticket projects are worth over Rs 9,600 crore.

    The newly built fertiliser plant will be operated by the Hindustan Urvarak Rasayan Limited (HURL).

    The Gorakhpur AIIMS, built at a cost of Rs 1,011 crore, will benefit not only the people of eastern Uttar Pradesh but also a huge population of Bihar, Jharkhand and Nepal with its world-class health facilities, officials said.

    Similarly, the regional medical research centre set up at a cost of Rs 36 crore will facilitate the test and research of vector-borne diseases, they added.

    The high-tech lab will decrease the dependency of the area on big cities for tests related to vector-borne diseases.

    The inauguration of the three big projects comes just months ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.

  • BSP not being visible on banners doesn’t mean it won’t be on ballot in Uttar Pradesh: Satish Misra

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: There may not be much pomp and show surrounding the BSP’s campaign for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls yet, but its leader Mayawati and cadre are working hard on the ground and will surprise everyone with the results like it did in 2007, party general secretary Satish Chandra Misra said on Sunday.

    “BSP not being visible on banners doesn’t mean it will not be on ballot papers. The party is in the hearts of people,” Misra said, scoffing at the charge by the party’s rivals that it is not in action ahead of the polls early next year.

    “Those discounting BSP can do so at their own peril. The party is working hard and will repeat its feat of 2007 and surprise everyone again,” he told PTI in an interview.

    In the 2007 assembly elections, the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) bagged majority on its own for the first time and formed the government in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous and politically crucial state.

    Misra said Mayawati is holding organisational meetings regularly and totally geared up for the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh and other states.

    “She is very much active. She is regularly holding organisational meetings and guiding all of us,” he said.

    There may not be much “pomp and show” surrounding the BSP’s campaign in Uttar Pradesh and other states, but that doesn’t mean the party is not on the ground, he said, adding that the party supremo and cadre are working hard at the grassroots.

    To a question on whether the election in Uttar Pradesh is becoming a bipolar contest between the ruling BJP and the Samajwadi Party (SP), Misra said such an assumption is “far from reality” and a “misreading” of the state’s political atmosphere.

    “It will be totally wrong to assume that the UP election is going to be bipolar (contest) between BJP and SP. Just wait and watch. As soon Behenji starts electioneering, the election will revolve around her,” he said.

    Mayawati is called Behenji by her party functionaries and followers.

    Misra reiterated that the BSP would not enter into an alliance with any party in the state and would fight the election on its own.

    He also emphasised that anyone from neither Mayawati’s family nor his would contest the election.

    “BSP originated from a movement…We are working on the philosophy of ‘Sarvjan Hitaye, Sarvjan Sukhaye’ (For welfare of everyone, for happiness of everyone). Ours is not a family-based party,” he said.

    The BSP’s performance in the 2017 assembly elections was not up to the mark and it came a distant third by winning only 19 seats out of 403.

    While the BJP registered a landslide victory by winning more than 300 seats in 2017, the SP managed to get just 47.

    For the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, arch rivals BSP and SP came together to take on the BJP, but they were unable to make any dent and could win only 10 and five seats respectively out of a total of 80.

    The SP and the BSP are contesting the coming assembly elections separately.

  • UP: Newly constructed road develops cracks after BJP MLA smashes coconut during inauguration

    By PTI

    BIJNOR: A portion of a newly constructed road cracked when a BJP MLA smashed a coconut on the road to mark its inauguration in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district.

    Upset over the incident, BJP MLA Suchi Chaudhary sat on a dharna and scolded officials over the poor quality of the road. A total of Rs 1,16,00,000 was spent on the construction of the road, according to sources. On Thursday evening, the Bijnor MLA had gone to inaugurate the seven-km-long road near Kheda village.

    During the inaugural ceremony, she smashed a coconut on the road but it did not break and instead a gravel came off.

    When the MLA’s husband Mausam Chaudhary, who was also there on the spot, used a shovel on the newly constructed road, the surface started disintegrating.

    Executive engineer at the Irrigation Division Vikas Aggarwal said a sample has been taken for analysis.

  • If Congress wins in Uttar Pradesh, skill schools for girls will be opened in every district: Priyanka Gandhi

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday said if her party wins the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, skill development schools will be opened in every district in the name of ‘veeranganas’ like freedom fighter Jhalkari Bai.

    The Congress leader has already made a number of women-centric promises, including 40 per cent tickets to females in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year, smartphones to all Class 12 pass girls and electric scooters to graduate women, if her party forms a government in the state.

    “Salute to ‘veerangana’ Jhalkari Bai. The Congress has decided that if it forms the government in the state, skill schools will be opened in every district for girls in the name of ‘veeranganas’ like Jhalkari Bai,” Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi on the birth anniversary of the freedom fighter.

    Jhalkari Bai (November 22, 1830 – April 4, 1858) was an adviser to Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi and fought alongside her in the 1857 rebellion.

    Priyanka Gandhi had held a dialogue with women in Chitrakoot recently and exhorted them to come together to raise their voice and seek their rights in politics.

  • Engaged in playing PUBG, two boys run over by train in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura

    By IANS

    MATHURA: Two young boys engaged in playing PUBG, a popular online game, were crushed to death by a goods train on the single Mathura-Kasganj track in Laxmi Nagar area.

    While one of the mobile phones was damaged in the accident, the other had PUBG still running when it was recovered.

    The boys were on a walk when the accident took place.

    Shashi Prakash Singh, Station House Officer (SHO) of Jamunapar police station, said, “We do not know exactly which train was passing when the accident took place.”

    The bodies have been sent for post-mortem.

    The deceased boys have been identified as Gaurav Kumar, 14, a student of class 10 of Guru Nanak Dev Public School, and his neighbour Kapil Kumar, 14, a class 10 student of BGB Braj Education Academy Senior Secondary School.

    A few passers-by informed the police about the bodies lying on the railway track.

    Gaurav’s father Rahul Kumar, who runs a dairy business, said his son had decided to go for a walk.

    “Today was the first day of his walk and I wanted him to make it a routine, but now he is gone,” he said. He had taken his father’s mobile phone for use.

    Kapil, who lives just 100 metres away from Gaurav’s house, was taken by his friend for the walk.

    “We have no idea about this online game. Had I been aware of it, I would have never given him a mobile phone,” said Kapil’s father Sanjay Kumar, who runs a business.

    The Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds, popularly called PUBG, is an online multiplayer game. Experts claim that the game is “highly addictive” and may give rise to “violent behaviour” in those playing it.

  • ‘Dead’ man in Uttar Pradesh found alive after 7 hours in mortuary freezer

    By IANS

    MORADABAD: In a bizarre incident, a 40-year-old man was kept in a mortuary freezer for almost seven hours before he was taken out alive.

    According to reports, Srikesh Kumar, an electrician, was hit by a speeding motorbike following which he was taken to the district hospital on Thursday night. The doctors had declared him dead.

    The following day, the hospital staff put the body in the freezer.

    Nearly seven hours later, when a ‘panchnama’ or document, signed by family members after identifying the body and agreeing to an autopsy – was to be filed by the police, Kumar’s sister-in-law Madhu Bala noticed that he was showing signs of movement.

    In a video that went viral, Bala can be heard saying: “He’s not at all dead. How did this happen? Look, he wants to say something, he is breathing.”

    Moradabad’s chief medical superintendent Dr Shiv Singh, said: “The emergency medical officer had seen the patient at 3 a.m and there was no heartbeat. He had examined the man multiple times. Thereafter, he was declared dead but, in the morning, a police team and his family found him alive. A probe has been ordered. Our priority is now to save his life.”

    Singh said it was one of those “rarest of rare cases… We can’t call it negligence”.

    Kumar is now undergoing treatment at a health centre in Meerut where his condition has improved.

    According to his sister-in-law, “he is yet to regain consciousness”.

    “We will lodge a complaint against the doctors for negligence as they almost killed Srikesh by putting him in a freezer,” she added.

  • Harassed by wife, newly wed man kills self with poison in UP village

    By PTI

    MUZAFFARNAGAR: A 23-year-old man who had been married only a week killed himself consuming poison in a village here, allegedly over harassment by his wife and brother-in-law, police said on Saturday.

    The incident took place on Friday under Babri Police Station area. According to police, Prayas, the deceased, who had got married to a woman named Komal on November 14, committed suicide consuming some poisonous substance in Choonsa village of Shamli district.

    Seema, the sister of the deceased, in a complaint lodged with the police, alleged that her brother took the extreme step after he was abused by his wife Komal and brother-in-law Nitin Kumar. An investigation is on in the matter, police said.

    In another case of suicide, a 55-year-old man named Madan Kumar set himself on fire over a family dispute on Friday in Gyana Majra village in the district here.

    Kumar was rushed to the hospital in a serious condition but was declared brought dead by the doctors there, an officer at Charthwal Police Station said.