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  • Uttar Pradesh man arrested for hacking into ECI website, creating fake IDs

    By PTI

    SAHARANPUR: The Uttar Police police has arrested a 24-year-old man here for allegedly hacking into the Election Commission of India (ECI) website and creating hundreds of fake voter IDs, officials said Friday.

    Vipul Saini, who has a Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) degree, was arrested Thursday from Nakur town’s Maccharhedi village in Saharanpur district.

    During initial investigation, police found that Saini worked at the behest of a person named Armaan Malik from Madhya Pradesh, and created over 10,000 fake voter IDs over three months.

    Saharanpur Senior Superintendent of Police S Channappa told PTI that Saini was paid Rs 100-200 per ID and when his bank account was examined after the arrest, the police found Rs 60 lakh deposited in it.

    The account was immediately freezed.

    Police are investigating the source of the money and trying to find more details about Malik, who, Saini said, used to send him details of the day’s work.

    Police has seized two computers from Saini’s home.

    Police also said authorities in Delhi will now seek court’s permission to take him to the national capital for further probe.

    It will also be probed if he is linked to anti-national or terrorist forces, they said.

    According to police, Saini completed his BCA from Gangoh village in Saharanpur district.

    His father is a farmer.

  • Decades after anti-Sikh riots, Uttar Pradesh cops examine crime scene again

    By PTI

    KANPUR: A special investigation team is re-examining the scene of a crime decades after two men were allegedly murdered and their bodies set on fire in their house here during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

    Crucial evidence, including blood samples, has been lifted this week from a locked house in city’s Govind Nagar, attacked by a mob during the anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi.

    The SIT, formed by the Yogi Adityanath government on the orders of the Supreme Court, entered the locked house with a forensic team on Tuesday, Superintendent of Police (SIT), Balendu Bhushan said.

    After Delhi, Kanpur was among the worse-hit by the violence.

    Teja Singh (45) and his son Satpal Singh (22) were killed on November 1, 1984.

    The SIT has got the statement of Teja Singh’s surviving son, Charanjeet Singh — now 61 and a resident of Delhi — recorded before a special magistrate.

    The witness narrated the horrific episode and disclosed the identities of those allegedly involved in the murders.

    The surviving members of Teja Singh’s family had sold off the Kanpur house and moved first to Punjab and then Delhi.

    A Kanpur sub-inspector filed the FIR.

    SP Bhushan said the crime scene was undisturbed as the new occupants stayed on the first floor.

    The ground floor rooms where the murders took place remained locked.

    The SIT entered the house in the presence of an eyewitness to the attack who lived in the same area.

    Bhushan said the forensic science laboratory determined that the blood samples collected were of human beings, which confirmed that killings had taken place there.

    Earlier this year, the SIT had collected blood samples from a house in Kanpur’s Naubasta area.

    It too had been locked up after a similar attack.

    The Uttar Pradesh SIT was formed to revisit cases filed after the 1984 riots.

    The Kanpur SSP provided the SIT with a list of 40 cases of serious nature.

    Of them, the Kanpur Police had filed charge sheets in 11 cases and final reports in the remaining 29, which lacked substantial evidence.

    But the accused were acquitted in all 11 cases with the trial court citing lack of evidence.

    “We have sought permission from the state government to file an appeal against the judgment of lower courts in five cases,” Bhushan said.

    “We are still waiting for the government nod.”

    The SIT also started further investigations in the 29 cases closed by Kanpur Police and hopes to file charge-sheet in some of them.

  • Man sentenced to 20 years in prison for child molestation in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI

    BULANDSHAHR: A district court on Thursday sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for molesting a four-year-old girl last year.

    The court of the additional district judge, POCSO, also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the man, identified as Maroof of Gulaothi town.

    Maroof was arrested and sent to jail last year after he committed the act.

  • Muslim man thrashed in Kanpur, asked to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ as minor daughter tries to save him

    By PTI

    KANPUR: A Muslim man was assaulted in the public and allegedly asked to chant “Jai Shri Ram” even as his minor daughter tried to save him, said police here on Thursday.

    A one-minute video of the incident surfaced on social media on Wednesday.

    The 45-year-old man is seen being assaulted by some men, who ask him to chant “Jai Shri Ram”.

    The victim’s daughter is seen trying to save her father, crying and asking the attackers not to beat him.

    Later, some policemen took the man to their Jeep.

    The footage also shows the man being hit while in police custody.

    Deputy Police Commissioner (South) Raveena Tyagi said the matter came to the fore at the Kacchi Basti locality near the Ram Gopal crossing in the Barra area of Kanpur on Wednesday.

    “On the complaint of the victim, we have lodged an FIR and legal action is underway,” she said.

    Police, however, did not mention the name of the organisation involved in the act.

    The victim, an e-rickshaw driver, said around 3 pm, some people started abusing and assaulting him.

    They threatened to kill his family.

    He said he was saved by police.

    The man is a relative of a Muslim family, which is involved in a dispute with their Hindu neighbours in the Kanpur locality.

    Police statement says in July, the two families filed cases against each other at the local police station.

  • FIR against four for flogging, giving electric shock to man on camera in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia

    By PTI

    BALLIA: An FIR has been registered against four men in this Uttar Pradesh district after a video went viral on social media, in which they were seen flogging a man and giving him an electric shock, police said on Tuesday.

    The incident occurred in Surhaiya village in the Sahatwar area.

    In the video, the accused could be seen flogging a man, who had his hands and legs tied, and giving him an electric shock.

    Deputy Superintendent of Police Preeti Tripathi said the video was recorded around 3 am on August 7.

    The victim, identified as Pintu Rajbhar, has been admitted to the district hospital, she added.

    The FIR against the four accused was registered on the basis of a complaint from the victim’s brother, Dheeraj.

    Police are trying to arrest the accused, who are absconding.

  • Maharashtra: Teen reunited with family in Uttar Pradesh due to Aadhaar card details

    By PTI

    NAGPUR: A 15-year-old specially-abled and speech impaired boy found at Nagpur railway station two years ago was reunited with his parents in Uttar Pradesh due to his Aadhaar card details, an official said on Monday.

    The teen was brought to the Government Children’s Home for Boys (Junior) here last year from a similar facility in Chandrapur district after being found at Nagpur railway station on August 5, 2019, Superintendent Vindo Daberao said.

    “We were trying to get him registered on the Aadhaar system but his details were getting rejected repeatedly. We visited the Aadhaar seva kendra at Mankapur on Jun 16 this year, from where, on July 26, we came to know of his real name and address,” he told PTI.

    The seva’s kendra’s manager Anil Marathe told PTI the child’s details were getting rejected due to biometric issues and the technical support department in Bengaluru was requested to help.

    “We found that his Aadhaar card had already been made in 2016 in Itoribazar in Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh and that his name was Shivam Chauhan,” he said.

    Daberao said local police managed to contact their counterparts in Sonikpur in UP’s Jaunpur on July 27 and the teen was handed over to his family on August 3.

  • Man held for ‘inoculating’ people with non-Covid jabs in UP

    By Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Committing a hue irregularity in administering the anti-covid vaccine, an employee of government primary health centre in Pindra, Varanasi, was arrested for inoculating people with Dexona and Ranitidine injections instead of anti-Covid vaccine, said police on Monday.

    According to a local police officer, Pindra primary health centre employee Mohan La was also taking ₹20- ₹50 from people to administer the injection claiming it to be Covishield.

    The matter came to light when a local man, who did not wish to be identified, took the jab and asked for a certificate of vaccination. Lal then allegedly threatened him.

    According to police sources, the man got suspicious and reported the matter to the police. Senior sub-inspector Sanjit Bahadur Singh reached the spot and recovered two ampoules of injections from Lal. The PHC employee was then taken in custody and PHC medical officer in-charge Dr HC Maurya was informed about his act.

    According to Dr Maurya, the recovered vial was Dexona injection and the ampoule was of Ranitidine. While Dexona injection was given in the treatment of some diseases, Ranitidine was an antacid.

    A police complaint has been filed against Lal, Dr Mauya said. Police confirmed a case was filed under Sections 268 (public nuisance) and 269 (Negligent act likely to spread disease or infection) of Indian Penal Code and Section 15 (2) ( B) of the Indian Medical Council Act on the complaint by a health employee the PHC.

    Police said Lal had admitted that he was charging ₹20- ₹50 from people for administering the injection while claiming it was Covishield.

  • Vikashsheel Insaan Party to put statues of Phoolan Devi at party workers’ houses in Uttar Pradesh

    Express News Service

    PATNA: Bihar-origin Vikashsheel Insaan Party (VIP), headed by Mukesh Sahni, who is also called the Son of Mallah, is attempting to jump into the electoral politics of Uttar Pradesh through installation of the statues of late bandit-turn-politician Phoolan Devi’s political ideologies at the party workers’ house.

    Sahni, who was recently not allowed to unveil the statues of Phoolan Devi at 18 different places on July 25 by the Uttar Pradesh government, has chalked out an interesting plan to make the political presence felt in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

    He has prepared the party workers of Uttar Pradesh unit for installing nearly 50,000 statues of Phoolan Devi on the land of their respective houses before the Assembly elections are announced. If anyone installs the statue of Phoolan Dev at his or her private house land, no law can stop prevent the people from doing it.

    The party will make available the statues of Phoolan Devi from Bihar in the run up to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in order to polarise nearly 17 per cenr voters, belonging to Mallah or fisherman community, through their sentiment attached with Phoolan Devi towards the party.

    Mukesh Sahni, after his attempt to unveil the statues of Phoolan Devi was thwarted in Uttar Pradesh, had lambasted the Yogi Adityanath led-government in Uttar Pradesh.

    VIP’s national spokesperson  Dev Jyoti, through a press note, said that around 50000 statues of Phoolan Devi will be made avaibale to the party workers in Uttar Pradesh for installation on the land of their respective houses’.

    The VIP will not only install 50000 idols and statues of Veerangana Phoolan Devi in Uttar Pradesh but also motivate the voters belonging to nishad community to idolise the ideologies of Phoolan Devi, who fought against the injustice meted out to her by feudal forces.

    The VIP has decided not only to get 50000 statues installed but also distribute five lakh lockets carrying the photos of Phoolan Devi amongst the Nishad caste people as a symbol of their struggle for the caste dignity.

    Jyoti also claimed that Sahni – who is the animal husbandry and fisheries minister in the Bihar government, will also send 165 leaders from Bihar to Uttar Pradesh making them as in-charges of party.

    “The Vikashsheel Insaan Party will take the struggles of ‘veerangana’ (Braveheart) Phoolan Devi ji and her ideologies to the people in the form of Nishad Revolution. The party will also fulfil her dreams of bringing forward the Nishad community in the whole country together,” he said.

    Jyoti claimed that party will soon expand in the entire Uttar Pradesh and has almost completed its preparations for the 2022 Assembly elections. Sources said that the VIP may field its candidates at 165 seats in Uttar Pradesh having considerable presences of Nishad voters.

    A two-time MP from Samajwadi Party (SP), Phoolan Devi had fought against the feudal forces as bandit. A Hindi movie ‘Bandit Queen’ was also made on her life and struggle from a common woman to a bandit.

  • SP, Mahaan Dal will win 400 seats in upcoming assembly polls, form govt in UP: Akhilesh Yadav

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday claimed that in the upcoming assembly elections his party and its ally, Mahaan Dal, will form the government in Uttar Pradesh.

    Addressing a meeting of Mahaan Dal workers here, Yadav said till now he has been asserting that the SP will get 350 seats but after the programme of Mahaan Dal, they will win 400 seats.

    “When I talk about (winning) 400 seats, people start raising questions. But, when the BJP talks about the bullet train, no one questions it. You (BJP) had said that Varanasi will be transformed into Kyoto. But, what the city has turned into can be seen by anyone,” he said.

    The former chief minister claimed that if voted to power, the SP will take journalists to Kyoto.

    “The cleanliness in Kyoto cannot be imagined,” he said.

    Attacking Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, Yadav described him as “fake” and said, “The real Keshav is Mahaan Dal’s Keshav Dev Maurya.”

    Speaking on the occasion, Keshav Dev Maurya said, “The BJP is saying that everybody is fighting the BJP. But, the reality is that everybody is fighting Akhilesh Yadav.”

    He said that he can merge his party with the SP to fight the BJP, if the need arises, and added that he will remain an ally of the SP, until he is thrown out of the alliance.

  • Be active on social media to counter negativity by opposition: Uttar Pradesh CM to BJP workers

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday asked BJP workers to be active on social media to take on those who are allegedly painting a negative picture of the central and state governments.

    Addressing a workshop of the IT and social media department of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Uttar Pradesh unit, Adityanath asked them to highlight the achievements of the BJP-led governments.

    “We do not try to bring the truth in front of people and this is our shortcoming. The opposition takes advantage of it,” he said.

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    We will have to move forward positively in a professional manner and with a strategy that will force the opposition to go on the back foot, he added.

    The chief minister said if anyone discusses the issue of farmers on social media, BJP workers should highlight that more than Rs 1.40 lakh crore has been paid to 45 lakh sugarcane farmers.

    We must tell the people about the achievements of the governments, he said.

    Being active on social media should be part of everyone’s daily routine, he told the gathering.

    The media industry has undergone vast changes in the last two decades and today, we cannot separate ourselves from it.

    Hence, it must be used in an effective way to influence lives positively, he said.