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  • Two men caught on tape throwing COVID patient’s body into river in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur

    By Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: After disturbing visuals of unidentified bodies floating in the Ganga river, a video went viral in which two men are seen dumping the body of a Covid patient into the Rapti river in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur district.

    The 26-second clip, which appears to be filmed by a person from a vehicle, shows the two men, one of them wearing PPE suit, amid rain throwing the body from a road bridge.

    While the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) confirmed the patient had tested positive, the police announced that two persons, including a close relative of the COVID victim and a sanitation staff, was arrested for the act that took place on Saturday. “A criminal case was lodged against them and further investigations are underway,” ASP, Balrampur, Arvind Mishra said.

    ये ‘कूड़ा’ नही, नदी में लाश फेंकी जा रही है,तस्वीरें ‘उत्तम-प्रदेश’ के बलरामपुर की है…pic.twitter.com/xiJPsYKB30
    — Srinivas B V (@srinivasiyc) May 30, 2021

    According to Balrampur CMO Dr VB Singh, a 68-year-old man from Shohratgarh area was admitted at a hospital in Balrampur district on May 25, where he tested Covid positive the next day. He was shifted to an isolation ward at the Jila Sanyukt Chikitsalaya but died on May 28 evening.

    The body was handed over to the patient’s nephew Sanjay Shukla and sent in a vehicle for cremation the next morning.

    But, the police said, instead of getting the body cremated at the Bijlipur Ghat, Shukla took the body and got it thrown in the river with the help of the sanitation staff and another man who works at the riverside cremation ground.

    Shukla allegedly oversaw the operation from an SUV, and the police are looking into the possibility of money being exchanged for getting the work done. Also under scanner is the role of those who filmed the clip.

    The opposition Congress tweeting the video on Sunday and asserted that the awful state of affairs in UP was exposed yet again. “Will the UP government now prove this video as false,” it questioned.

    Disturbing visuals from Balrampur

    The 26-second clip, which appears to be filmed by a person from a vehicle, shows the two men, one of them wearing PPE suit, throwing the body from a road bridge

  • Two men caught on tape throwing Covid patient’s body into river in UP’s Balrampur

    By PTI
    BALRAMPUR: Two men, one of them wearing a PPE kit, were caught on tape rolling down a coronavirus patient’s body from over a bridge into a river in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur district.

    The video was shot by some people who were driving by the spot.

    After the visuals surfaced, police registered a case.

    Balrampur Chief Medical Officer Vijay Bahadur Singh on Sunday said the body has been identified as that of Prem Nath Mishra, a resident of Sohratgarh in UP’s Siddharth Nagar district.

    ये ‘कूड़ा’ नही, नदी में लाश फेंकी जा रही है,तस्वीरें ‘उत्तम-प्रदेश’ के बलरामपुर की है…pic.twitter.com/xiJPsYKB30
    — Srinivas B V (@srinivasiyc) May 30, 2021

    “Prem Nath Mishra was hospitalised on May 25 after he contracted COVID-19 and succumbed to the disease on May 28. The body was handed over to family members as per the COVID-19 protocol. In the video, which went viral on social media, it can be seen that the body was thrown into the Rapti river.”

    He said a case has been registered at the Kotwali police station in this regard.

    Earlier in the month, several bodies were seen floating in the Ganga and Yamuna rivers in the state, triggering apprehensions that these were of COVID-19 patients.

    The authorities too had urged people not to dispose of bodies into rivers.

  • Yogi govt relaxes Covid lockdown in UP, weekend restrictions to continue

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday announced relaxation of lockdown in the state with certain activities allowed from June 1.

    Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary R K Tiwari said shops and markets outside containment zones will be allowed to open from June 1 onwards from 7 am to 7 pm for five days (Monday to Friday).

    Night curfew will remain in place from 7 pm to 7 am, he said.

    The weekend restrictions or “corona curfew” will remain in place on Saturday and Sunday, the statement said. 

  • Woman advocate in Uttar Pradesh tries self-immolation over police ‘inaction’ on rape complaint

    By PTI
    MATHURA: Upset with alleged police inaction over the complaint of her rape by a law professor and three others, a woman lawyer on Friday attempted self-immolation in front of a police station but was stopped before she lit the matchstick.

    “She doused herself with some inflammable liquid but her efforts were foiled by two policemen,” Mathura City Superintendent of Police Martand Prakash Singh said.

    Denying police inaction, Singh said a detailed probe is on into the matter and two more police teams have been formed to nab the accused.

    On the woman’s complaint, an FIR was lodged earlier at the Highway police station in Mathura on May 7 against a law professor of a local college and his three accomplices for allegedly sexually assaulting her a day earlier, police said.

    But, alleging that she was neither sent for any medical examination nor any action was taken against the alleged culprits, she submitted an application to the SSP on May 13, and threatened to burn herself to death in front of the police station, they said.

    Denying police inaction in the case, officials said her statement under section 161 of the CrPC was taken on May 7 and under section 164 of the CrPc while her medical examination too conducted on May 15 as her COVID-19 test report was received late, police said.

  • COVID-19: Uttar Pradesh men threaten doctor, open fire when not allowed to enter clinic without mask

    By PTI
    NOIDA: Two young men on Thursday allegedly hurled abuses at a doctor and his staff, issued threats and opened fire outside their clinic in Greater Noida after one of them was told to enter only with a face mask on in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, police said.

    Police said they have arrested the accompanying friend of the key accused, and a manhunt is underway to nab him.

    Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Vishal Pandey said the incident took place in Jarcha police station area in the morning when 22-year-old Parmeet, a resident of Phulpur village, had gone to the clinic for consultation with the doctor.

    “He was not wearing a face mask and was told by the doctor and the clinic staff to not enter without a face mask, as per COVID protocols. However, the words of caution turned into a heated argument and Parmeet left the clinic,” Pandey said.

    “After about an hour, he returned to the clinic along with a friend but this time armed with a gun. They both hurled abuses at the doctor and his staff, issued threats and went outside the clinic where they opened gunshots in the air in rage before leaving again,” the officer said.

    The matter was reported to the local police and an FIR lodged under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code against the duo, the police said.

    While Parmeet is on the run, his friend Rahul who accompanied him during the incident has been arrested and legal proceedings initiated against him, the police added.

  • Junior doctors stopped from meeting Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath in Jhansi

    By PTI
    JHANSI: Some junior doctors of a college were stopped from meeting Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a review meeting here on Sunday, with senior officials saying this was done to ensure there was no disruption during the meet.

    The doctors were from the Jhansi Medical College and they wanted to submit to the chief minister a memorandum which included that the institute’s central library be kept open for 24 hours, sources said.

    The junior doctors, who wanted to submit the memorandum, had no earlier plans of meeting the CM, Jhansi District Magistrate (DM) Andra Vamsi said The official added that the action was taken so that there was no disruption in the chief minister’s programme.

    Vamsi added that none of the junior doctors were arrested.

    President of the Junior Doctors’ Association of Medical College Jhansi Dr Hardeep was going along with some of his colleagues to hand over a three-point memorandum to the chief minister when they were stopped, the sources said.

    In their memorandum, they had demanded that the college’s central library be open for 24 hours, adequate medicines be made available and administrative officials behave with them decently, they said.

    Subsequently, a meeting was held between the DM and the principal of the medical college along with the junior doctors.

    The doctors were assured that their problems will be resolved soon.

    Reacting to the incident in Jhansi, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in a Facebook post said, “The model of the UP government is to remain absent when needed, and indulge in false publicity, but arrest those who are in service of the public.”

    “Police arrested some resident doctors, as they had gone to present their three demands before the chief minister,” she said.

    Priyanka Gandhi asked “are these demands wrong?” The chief minister should have listened to their demands, she said.

  • Uttar Pradesh: Reluctant to get vaccinated against COVID-19, villagers jump into Saryu river

    By PTI
    BARABANKI: In an extreme example of vaccine hesitancy, a group of people in Barabanki’s Sisaurha village jumped into the Saryu river after seeing a team of health officials coming to inoculate them against coronavirus.

    Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Ramnagar tehsil Rajiv Kumar Shukla said the incident took place on Saturday.

    Shukla said he made the villagers understand the importance and benefits of vaccination, and tried to dispel the myths, following which 18 people in the village got the jabs.

    The villagers said they jumped into the river because some people had told them that this was not a vaccine, but a poisonous injection.

  • Five of a family, including three kids, killed over property dispute: Uttar Pradesh Police

    All five members of a family were killed in a village in Uttar Pradesh with the murderers slitting open their throats in their sleep.

  • Man hacks brother, sister-in-law to death, chops off one-year-old nephew’s limbs: Uttar Pradesh Police

    A man hacked his brother and sister-in-law to death with a butcher #39;s knife and chopped off the limbs of their one-year-old child in Bhadohi.

  • UP to declare black fungus as notifiable disease

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government will declare black fungus as a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act later in the day, a senior official said after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath issued directions in this regard.

    The Union government had on Thursday urged states and Union Territories to make mucormycosis or black fungus a notifiable disease under the Act, stating that the infection is leading to prolonged morbidity and mortality among COVID-19 patients.

    A notifiable disease is required by law to be reported to the government authorities.

    The collection of information allows the authorities to monitor the disease and provides early warning of possible outbreaks.

    During a meeting on Friday, the Uttar Pradesh CM said, “In compliance with the order of the central government, black fungus should also be declared a notified disease on the lines of COVID.

    Order in this regard should be issued today and be made effective,” a government statement said.

    Additional Chief Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal said the order will be issued by Friday evening.

    In consultation with health experts, the state government is making arrangements for proper medical treatment of all patients, the statement said quoting the CM said.

    According to the statement, officials at the meeting told the CM that medicines for the treatment of black fungus have been made available in every district.

    Details of all patients suffering from black fungus are being made available to experts, the statement said.

    So far, around 300 COVID patients suffering from black fungus have been admitted to hospitals in the state, an official spokesman said.

    According to information received from Lucknow’s King George’s Medical University, 73 patients have been admitted there, of which 23 were admitted in the past 24 hours.