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  • 30 policemen injured after inmates resort to arson in Uttar Pradesh jail

    By PTI

    FARRUKHABAD: Around 30 policemen and six prisoners were injured on Sunday when they hurled stones at the security personnel and started a fire at the district jail here over the death of an inmate, officials said.

    According to jail officials, the inmates started pelting stones at the policemen as news of the death of a prisoner due to dengue in Saifai Medical College surfaced.

    The prisoners also resorted to arson following which a fire brigade was called.

    Heavy police force was also deployed to control the situation, they said.

    Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar Meena said 30 policemen were injured in the stone pelting incident, but the situation is now under control.

    He said deputy jailor was also among those injured.

    Meanwhile, District Magistrate Sanjay Kumar Singh said the guilty will be punished after the incident is probed.

  • Nine-year-old girl raped by minor in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI

    BANDA: A nine-year-old girl, who had gone to a farm to fetch pulses, was allegedly raped by a 14-year-old boy here, police said on Sunday.

    Marka Station House Officer Rakesh Saroj said the incident took place on Friday evening.

    Two other girls had accompanied the victim to the farm, he said.

    However, no information about them has been disclosed.

    A case was registered on Saturday based on a complaint lodged by the girl’s father, Saroj said, adding she has been for a medical examination.

    The accused is absconding and efforts to nab him are underway, he said.

  • UP: Angered over children fighting during cricket match, senior citizen throws acid on women

    By PTI

    BANDA: A 60-year-old man allegedly threw acid on two women and a teenage girl as he got enraged over children getting into a fight during a cricket match in the neighbourhood in Kailashpuri area here on Friday, police said.

    All three injured persons were admitted to hospital and are out of danger, Circle Officer (City) Rakesh Kumar Singh said.

    The accused, Ashutosh Tripathi alias Gulli, was annoyed at the children getting into disputes during the cricket match being played on the street outside his house, Singh said.

    Some of Tripathi’s family members were playing in the match. As the fight escalated, Tripathi brought an acid bottle kept in his house and threw it on his neighbours sitting outside their home, the CO said.

    One of the woman’s children was playing in the match. The victims were identified as Rani Singh (39) and her daughter Lakshmi Singh (17) along with Shoba Singh (70). Singh said a case has been registered in this connection and investigation has started. A search was on for the accused, the officer added.

  • Four of a family die in fire tragedy in Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi

    By PTI

    BHADOHI: Four members of a family were killed when fire broke out in their house in Gopiganj area of the district early Thursday morning, police said.

    According to preliminary investigation by police, short circuit was found to be the possible cause of the fire.

    Aslam Ali (75), his wife Shakeela Begum (70) and their two granddaughters Taskia (12) and Alvira (10), were sleeping on the third floor of a house in Chudihari Mohal of Gopiganj police station area, Superintendent of Police (SP), Dr Anil Kumar said.

    Locals spotted fire on the floor around 4 am, he said.

    Family members who lived on other floors of the four-storey building rushed to save the trapped, but the fire had spread beyond their control.

    Help from fire tenders too took time as they were not able to reach up to the house which is located in a very narrow lane, the officer said.

    While they struggled to reach the house, locals rushed to douse the flames, but they could do only so much.

    According to the SP, Aslam, Shakeela Begum and Taskia died on the spot, and Alvira was referred to trauma centre in Varanasi where she succumbed later.

    Bodies of the victims have been sent for a post mortem examination and further investigations are on, he said.

    According to the police, the building housed 30 members of this family.

  • SP-SBSP alliance will support Mukhtar Ansari in Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls: Om Prakash Rajbhar

    The SBSP, which had contested the 2017 assembly elections in alliance with the BJP, has four MLAs at present.

  • Uttar Pradesh govt about 4.5 lakh jobs since 2017, claims CM Yogi Adityanath

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday claimed that his government has given about 4.5 lakh jobs so far and no one can point finger at any of these appointments.

    The CM said this addressing a gathering after distributing appointment letters to 33 newly appointed assistant engineers in the Housing and Urban Planning Department.

    “After 2017, several times more appointments in government and private sector were made as compared with jobs given between 2002 and 2017.

    For appointment, no candidate needed any recommendation and wherever we got even the slightest clue of any discrepancy, our government has taken very strict action,” he claimed.

    “During the last four and a half years, we have made appointments in a transparent manner. About 4.5 lakh youth have till now got government job in different departments in the state,” the CM claimed.

    No one can point finger at any of the appointments because these were made in a transparent manner, the CM said.

    Adityanath told the newly appointed engineers that their role should be to improve the image of their department and advised them to shun corruption.

    Speaking on development work, the CM said the Kanpur Metro will be inaugurated next month.

  • Dengue scare: Blood count test must for every fever patient, Mathura health officials told

    By PTI

    MATHURA: As a measure to control the raging fever, health department officers here have been instructed to conduct a CBC test of every fever patient, a senior state government officer said on Saturday.

    “Get Complete Blood Count (CBC) done of every fever patient as a precautionary measure to counter Dengue,” Mayur Maheshwari, Mukhya Karyapalak Adhikari Industries, Kanpur, was said to have instructed local officials in a meeting on Friday.

    He directed the Mathura Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to get sampling done for dengue in each such case where patient shows any symptoms of the fever.

    Sampling of at least 100 persons should be done daily at every community health center, said Maheshwari, who is also the nodal officer for Covid-19 for Mathura.

    The official also directed the CMO to take maximum samples from dengue-affected villages.

    The district Inspector of schools was directed to ensure there is no stagnant water in or around schools and the inter college.

    Emphasis was given to cleanliness around schools with regular spray of anti-larva chemical or DDT at vulnerable areas.

    Agriculture and revenue officials posted in Mathura were also told to ascertain actual loss caused to paddy crop owing to recent heavy rains.

    “Overcome the problem of farmers related to the sowing of their paddy, potato, and wheat crop, and availability of fertilizers,” the official said.

    The meeting was concluded with stress on advance arrangements to counter Covid-19.

    The nodal officer also made surprise checks at Nagar Palika Parishad, Kosikalan, CHC Kosikalan, a school in Dautana village of Chhata tehsil, and Mathura New Bus Stand, and issued instructions to those in-charge.

  • Rape-accused wanted in Uttar Pradesh traced to Maharashtra

    By PTI

    THANE: Police here in Maharashtra have arrested a man who was on the run for last two years after a rape case was registered against him at Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Thursday.

    A case had been registered in Raebareli against 26-year-old accused for allegedly raping and threatening a widow from his village there, said senior police inspector Sital Raut from Shanti Nagar police station in Thane’s Bhiwandi town.

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    The Raebareli police recently got a tip-off and based on the mobile phone location of the accused, came to know that he was in the hiding in the powerloom town of Bhiwandi.

    They sought help from the Shanti Nagar police, who traced the accused on Wednesday and arrested him, the official said.

  • Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Farmers protest on Tuesday to demand sacking of MoS Home Ajay Mishra

    By PTI

    NOIDA: Farmers protesting against the central farm laws will hold a countrywide protest on Tuesday to demand the sacking of Union Minister Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’, whose son is an accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri episode in which eight people, including farmers, were killed.

    The call for the protest has been made by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a farmer unions’ collective leading the anti-farm laws stir since November 2020 at Delhi’s borders, the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), which is part of the movement, said.

    “Demonstrations would be held at administrative headquarters in every district of the country. A memorandum will be submitted to the government with a demand that the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra be removed from his post,” BKU media in-charge Dharmendra Malik told PTI.

    “The pan-India protest will be supported by all farmer groups associated with the movement against the contentious farm laws. Through the memorandum, we will also appeal once again that these laws be rolled back,” Malik said.

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    He said local issues faced by farmers at regional levels and district levels will also be highlighted during the protests on Tuesday.

    Four farmers were killed in Tikonia area of Lakhimpur Kheri district, the native place of the Union minister, in Uttar Pradesh on October 3 after they were allegedly mowed down by an SUV.

    Later, the crowd lynched four other people, including BJP workers.

    Over a dozen people, including the minister’s son Ashish Mishra, have been arrested so far by a special investigation team (SIT) which is probing the case.

  • Two Uttar Pradesh Congress leaders join TMC in presence of Mamata Banerjee

    By PTI

    SILIGURI: Two senior Congress leaders of Uttar Pradesh on Monday joined the Trinamool Congress in presence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Siliguri in north Bengal.

    The two leaders, Rajeshpati Tripathi and Lalitpati Tripathi, said they would carry on the fight to oust the BJP from power in UP and the Centre under the leadership of Banerjee, the TMC supremo.

    Rajeshpati Tripathi is an ex-MLC while Laliteshpati Tripathi is former UP Congress vice-president and an ex-MLA.

    Rajeshpati and Laliteshpati are the grandson and the great-grandson of former UP chief minister Kamalapati Tripathi respectively, TMC sources said.

    “The faith of people in the TMC is increasing. The joining of the two leaders testifies that we are now an all-India party which can give real fight to the BJP,” Banerjee said.

    Alleging that the BJP is preventing the TMC from organising political programmes in Goa, Banerjee said she will be going to the western state in a few days.