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  • Lucknow Diary: All that is happening in the ‘City of Nawabs’

    Express News Service

    Teen’s feat in racing

    Uttar Pradesh teen formula car driver Shahan Ali Mohsin won two races of round one in the MRF Formula1600 category at MMSC FMSCI National Car Racing Championship in Chennai this week. A student of Class 12, the Agra-based champion took pole position even after he lost the first race due to overheating of the clutch. He won the next two races beating 11 drivers.

    The championship has four rounds. Second will be organised in December and the remaining two in first quarter of 2022. There are three races in each round and the driver with highest points will be declared champion at the end of round four. 

    Recognition for three scientists

    Three young scientists bagged the annual CDRI Award 2021 conferred by the CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI). In the category of chemical sciences, Vishal Rai from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, bagged the award for his work on precision engineering of proteins for enabling biology and medicine.

    Sidhesh S Kamat from Pune’s IISER bagged the award for contribution towards understanding human neurological disorder using the chemical biology approach. Chandrima Das from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, bagged an award in the life sciences category for her work on decoding the epigenetic landscape – a concept representing embryonic development. The CDRI award was instituted in 2004 to promote drug discovery and development research in India.

    Tourism carnival concludes

    A carnival organised at Gomti riverfront to mark World Tourism Day and the completion of 50 years of the Uttar Pradesh government’s tourism department concluded on Wednesday. The three-day extravaganza witnessed a variety of cultural events, including folk and Sufi performance by the Anhad Band. Many other events like magic show, puppet dance and folk dance of Uttar Pradesh besides the food festival of Lucknowi cuisine were a big draw.

    CPR training for cops

    In a first-of-its kind effort, the Uttar Pradesh Police personnel will be trained in Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) to save lives on time.

    The decision was taken by Uttar Pradesh DGP Mukul Goel, after attending a workshop with Dr Aditya Kapoor, head of the department of cardiology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, and head of cardiology department at KGMU, Dr Sudhnashu Dwievdi.

    The workshop was organized by iCARE, Mumbai. The DGP feels that as first responders, policemen should be well-versed with the perils of cardiac arrest and should receive training in CPR.

  • Cops involved in ‘very serious offences’ to face dismissal, warns Uttar Pradesh CM Adityanath

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said illegal activities by police personnel are not acceptable and warned that those found involved in “very serious offences” will be dismissed.

    The CM’s statement has come amid criticism of his government over law and order following the death of a Kanpur businessman at a hotel in his home district Gorakhpur.

    Manish Gupta (36) died on Monday night after he was allegedly beaten up by some policemen, prompting the authorities to register a murder case against them.

    At a meeting with senior officials, the CM said in the recent past, there have been complaints of some police personnel indulging in illegal activities, according to a statement.

    There should be no place for such people in the Police Department and action will be taken against them as per rules, Adityanath said, asking officials to identify such people and provide a list with proof Police personnel found involved in “very serious offences” should be dismissed, he said, stressing that people with tainted image should not be given important postings.

    Meanwhile, Opposition parties demanded a probe into the incident by the CBI or a sitting judge of the High Court.

    Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav rushed to Kanpur to meet the family of the victim and said justice is not possible till a High Court-monitored inquiry by a sitting judge is not ordered.

    BSP Supremo Mayawati in a tweet also demanded a CBI probe.

    On Wednesday, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had attacked the state government, saying it is “soft” on criminal and “brutal” with common people.

    Priyanka also talked to family members of the victim over the phone, expressing grief and assuring them of help in ensuring justice, party sources had said.

    Manish Gupta died when some policemen raided a Gorakhpur hotel on Monday night.

    Earlier, police had said he received a head injury after he fell on the ground as he was drunk.

    Later, the authorities suspended six policemen and booked them on the charge of murder.

  • Only one teacher managing 225 students at school in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli

    By PTI

    MUZAFFARNAGAR: A lone ‘shikhsha mitra’ is in charge of handling 225 children due to lack of teachers at a government primary school in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district, an official has said. Before the COVID-induced lockdown last year, two teachers were posted at the school in Khanpur village, Umesh Kumar, a member of district panchayat, said Wednesday.

    One died while the other has been on leave, said Kumar, who has asked the district magistrate to appoint more teachers. A ‘Shiksha Mitra’ is a primary school teacher appointed by the Basic Shiksha Parishad (Education Board) of the Uttar Pradesh government, under its Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2011.

  • UP man held for helping sister, others in final diploma examination

    By PTI

    MATHURA: A man has been arrested for helping his sister and others in the final exam of their diploma in elementary education here, police said Wednesday.

    A case has been registered in this regard under Section 417 (Cheating) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Section 66 D (Cheating by personation by using computer resource) of the IT Act and the Pariksha Adhiniyam, police said, adding both Tarun Singh and his sister have been sent to judicial custody.

    Singh was caught while helping his sister and other examinees in the paper being conducted at Champa Agrawal Inter College, Mathura, on Tuesday.

    His three associates have absconded, Superintendent of Police (SP) Martand Prakash Singh said, adding efforts are on to nab them.

    Centre Superintendent Principal RK Maheshwari confiscated Singh’s phone when he was operating it “in a doubtful manner” outside the examination centre, District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) Principal Mahendra Kumar Singh said.

    According to the principal, the mobile phone recovered from the accused also contained paper from the exam that was conducted on Monday.

     

  • Nine-year-old girl raped in UP’s Bareilly

    By PTI

    BAREILLY: A 25-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl here, police said on Wednesday.

    An FIR was registered against the accused based on a complaint by the minor’s father at the Izzatnagar police station, they said.

    According to the complaint, the man raped the girl in a drunken state at his home on Saturday, Senior Sub Inspector Swadesh Pal Singh said.

    The incident came to light after the minor fell sick, he said.

  • Uttar Pradesh: Locals up in arms as 8 cows die in Shamli shelter home

    By PTI

    MUZAFFARNAGAR: Local residents of Shamli district in Uttar Pradesh launched a protest after eight cows were found dead in a shelter home in the district, police said on Wednesday.

    According to officials, an inquiry has been ordered into the incident reported from Nagla Jamalpur village under Adarsh Mandi Police Station on Tuesday.

    After locals alleged that the animals died of hunger, officials said strict action will be taken against the guilty.

  • ‘Tantrik’ held for abduction, rape of 17-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia

    By PTI

    BALLIA (UTTAR PRADESH): A “tantrik” allegedly abducted and repeatedly raped a 17-year-old girl for three months, police in this Uttar Pradesh district said here on Tuesday. The accused, Jog Baba (23), was arrested from the railway station here and the girl, who was also with him, was rescued on Monday, they added.

    The girl, a resident of a village in the Revati police station area, was abducted by the accused in June, Senior Sub-Inspector Ajay Yadav said. In her statement, the teenager has told the police that she met the “tantrik” for her treatment.

    He kidnapped her by promising to marry her, took her to Delhi and Kota, and repeatedly raped her for about three months, the girl has alleged. She has been sent to the district hospital for a medical examination, Yadav said, adding that her father had filed a case of kidnapping against the accused on June 30.

    On the basis of the girl’s statement, police have included the relevant IPC sections dealing with rape and those of the POCSO Act in the case on Monday.

  • SC students asked to wash their utensils, keep them separate in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI

    MAINPURI (Uttar Pradesh): A school principal here was suspended and two cooks terminated over complaints that scheduled caste students were asked to wash their mid-day meal utensils themselves and keep them separate, a senior official said Sunday.

    Chief Development Officer Vinod Kumar said the action was taken after village pradhan Manju Devi’s husband Saheb Singh filed a complaint Saturday, alleging SC students were being discriminated against at the government primary school in Dodapur in Bewar block.

    Singh said in the complaint that the SC students, around 80 in all, unlike others were made to clean their utensils after eating the meal and asked to keep them separate.

    Upon receiving the complaint, the CDO, along with Basic Shiksha Adhikari Kamal Singh and project director KK Singh, inspected the school and its kitchen, and found the allegations true, the officer said.

    Taking cognisance of the matter, the CDO terminated the services of the cooks on the spot and suspended principal Garima Singh Rajput on the charges of dereliction of duty, he said.

  • Ex-Congress MP Pramod Tiwari among 27 booked for beating up BJP Pratapgarh MP Sangam Lal Gupta in UP

    By PTI

    PRATAPGARH: BJP’s Pratapgarh MP Sangam Lal Gupta on Saturday accused former Congress MP Pramod Tiwari of leading a mob of his party workers to beat him up and his party’s activist during a social function in Sangipur block of the district.

    The issue prompted the police to register a case against 27 persons, including the senior Congress leader and his daughter.

    The alleged incident led Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya to order the district administration to take strict action in the incident, in which Gupta alleged his ‘kurta’ was also torn by the assailants.

    “Instructions have been issued for speedy and strict action in the incident of attack on BJP MP and national general secretary of BJP’s Pichhda Varg Morch Sangam Lal Gupta during the Gareeb Kalyan Mela in Sangipur block in Pratapgarh district,” said Maurya in a tweet.

    “Not even a single guilty person will be spared,” he added.

    Acting Superintendent of Police Prakash Dwivedi said that acting on the complaint lodged by the BJP MP, a case has been registered against 27 persons including Pramod Tiwari, his daughter Aradhana Misra and 50 unknown persons under various sections of the IPC and CLA.

    Citing the complaint lodged by Gupta, the acting Superintendent of Police said that as the BJP MP reached the venue of the Gareeb Kalyan Mela, Pramod Tiwari, his daughter and Congress MLA Aradhana Misra (who were already present at the venue) along with their supporters started raising slogans against him, and even assumed an attacking posture.

    As Sangipur SHO Tushardutt Tyagi rushed to save Gupta, Pramod Tiwari and his workers attacked him, Gupta said, adding that Congress MLA Misra along with her supporters hurled abuses at him, and pounced on him with the intention to kill him.

    The BJP MP added that the security personnel somehow managed to bring him out (from the attackers grip), but at the behest of Misra, her supporters started beating him using stones and sticks, due to which he and his supporters got injured.

    Around a dozen vehicles have been damaged, he claimed.

    Gupta told PTI that the incident happened when he and his party workers reached the ”mela” venue in Sangipur, where ex-Congress MP Tiwari was sitting on the dais.

    “Seeing me at the venue, Tiwari and his supporters first began hooting at me and our workers. Later, they grew violent and attacked us,” he said.

    “They beat me up too and tore my kurta,” he said.

    The former Congress MP could not be contacted for comments despite repeated attempts by PTI.

  • Man held for killing five of his family within 20 years to grab ancestral land in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI

    GHAZIABAD: Ghaziabad police are searching for the body of a young boy, who was allegedly abducted and killed by his uncle over a property dispute, officials said.

    On August 15, Brijesh Tyagi had lodged a complaint that his son Reshu could not be traced for a week.

    A week later on August 22, an FIR was lodged by him that his son was kidnapped 14 days ago by some close relatives due to an old property dispute.

    Relying on circumstantial evidence and electronic surveillance, police teams arrested Leelu (Tyagi’s younger brother) of Basantpur village in Muradnagar, Rahul of Sambhal district and Surendra of Hapur district on Thursday from Muradnagar, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Iraj Raja said.

    During interrogation, the prime accused confessed to abducting and killing Reshu and thereafter throwing his body in a canal near Bulandshahar with the help of his accomplices Surendra, Vikrant, Mukesh and Rahul.

    “Twenty years ago in 2001, I had killed my elder brother Sudhir Tyagi and a few months later killed his eight-year-old daughter Payal by serving her poison. After three years, I killed his elder daughter Parul (16) and threw her body in Hindon river. Eight years ago, I killed my elder brother Brijesh’s son Nishu and threw his body in Hindon river,” Leelu told the police.

    All the family members were killed by Leelu (45) for ancestral land so that nobody could claim his share of the property.

    The prime accused wanted to grab the whole land worth Rs 5 crore.

    Now, police are trying to recover the body of Reshu from a canal near Bulandshahr district.

    Police have obtained some audio recordings and would produce it in the court during prosecution, the SP said.