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  • Man sentenced to death in Uttar Pradesh for raping 10-year-old girl

    By PTI
    FIROZABAD: A special POCSO court here on Thursday sentenced a man to death for raping a 10-year-old girl in December 2020, disposing of the case in a ‘record’ three and a half months.

    Additional Sessions Judge Mridul Dubey, heading the special court set up under the provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, sentenced the accused, Neeraj, a resident of a village under Jasrana police station, to death after convicting him of the offence of rape.

    Additional Government Counsel Ajumed Singh Chauhan said the offence was committed on December 14, 2020, when Neeraj had lured the girl to a desolate place in his village and raped her.

    After hearing both the prosecution and defence counsel, the POSCO court gave its verdict in “record time”, the ADGC added.

  • Seven drown in Uttar Pradesh while bathing after Holi celebrations

    By PTI
    FATEHPUR: Seven people drowned in Uttar Pradesh — five in Deoria district and two in Fatehpur — while bathing after Holi celebrations on Monday, officials said.

    According to a police spokesperson, three people — Amit Pandey (15), Krishna (20) and Kush Yadav (23) — drowned while bathing in the Chhoti Gandak river in Salempur Kotwali and Bhatni police station areas of Deoria district.

    Anurag (22) drowned in the Saryu river in the Barhaj police station area and 30-year-old Anil Prasad in a pond in the district, the police spokesperson said.

    In Fatehpur, two people drowned and another went missing while bathing in the Ganga river, police said.

    The incident took place around 3.30 pm in Bhitaura village, Hussainganj Station House Officer (SHO) Ranveer Bahadur Singh said.

    He said Alok Gupta (21), Ritik Umrav (16), Amit Kumar (18) and Raghav (20) — all residents of Fatehpur — had gone to take a bath.

    They started drowning, the SHO said.

    The boatmen, after hearing the cries, took out Alok, Ritik and Amit from the water, and took them to a hospital.

    Alok and Ritik were declared dead, while the condition of Amit is serious, police said.

    The SHO said Raghav is missing and efforts are on to trace him.

    He added that the bodies have been sent for post-mortem.

    On Sunday, two children — Mayank (13) and Vikki (8) — died due to drowning in Azamgarh district.

  • Man charged under NSA for kidnap-murder of boy in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI
    BAHRAICH: The authorities have slapped charges under the stringent National Security Act on a man for allegedly kidnapping a 12-year-old boy for ransom and subsequently killing him in Bahraich district in Uttar Pradesh last year, police said on Sunday.

    The district administration had invoked charges under the NSA against Hasan Mohammad in February, the police said.

    Under the NSA, one can be detained without a charge for up to 12 months if the authorities are satisfied that the person is a threat to national security or law and order.

    According to Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Ashok Kumar, accused Hasan Mohammad, his son Kaleem and four other family members had abducted the 12-year-old boy on October 29 last year when he was going to coaching classes.

    They had demanded a ransom of Rs 30 lakh from the family of the boy, a resident of Majhauli village in the Matera police station area.

    The accused later killed the boy and threw his body in a canal.

    On a complaint lodged by the boy’s father, a case was registered against Hasan, his son Kaleem and four other family members, including three women.

    Police said the boy was kidnapped and killed days after his father had objected to Kaleem not undergoing quarantine as required under the coronavirus guidelines following his return from Mumbai where he used to run a food stall.

    Authorities sent Kaleem to quarantine after a complaint was received from the boy’s father which angered him and his family, the police said.

  • Two held for gang rape of minor in Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi

    By PTI
    KAUSHAMBI: Two men were arrested here on Sunday in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a girl, police said.

    Additional Superintendent of Police Samar Bahadur Singh said the incident took place on March 25, when the girl, aged around 15, had gone to collect fodder for animals.

    The girl lodged a police complaint on Saturday, the additional SP said, adding she was sent for medical examination.

    The accused were arrested on Sunday and sent to jail, Singh said.

  • Three cops suspended, another shifted day after scuffle between BJP-RSS workers and policemen in UP

    By PTI
    MATHURA: Three police officials were suspended and another shifted on Sunday, a day after a scuffle broke out here between some policemen and youth, said to be BJP and RSS workers, officials said.

    The scuffle took place after some policemen allegedly misbehaved with an RSS Zila Pracharak, Manoj Kumar, when he was taking a bath in the Yamuna river during the Kumbh fair in Vrindavan, they said.

    Soon after the incident, a video surfaced on social media purportedly showing some youth entering into an altercation with two or three policemen and one of them hitting a policeman on his back with a helmet.

    A police spokesperson here said while inspector, Kotwali, Anuj Kumar has been sent to the police lines, Kumbh area (VIP ghat) police outpost incharge, inspector P K Upadyay as well as constables Anil and Gautam have been suspended.

    A letter has also been written to authorities concerned for action against two home guards, the police spokesperson said.

    Following the incident on Saturday, local BJP activists staged a dharma in protest the alleged misbehaviour of the policemen.

    The local Congress leaders and workers had also accused the BJP and RSS activists of attacking policemen, including the area SHO, and demanded action against them.

    On Sunday, former leader of the Congress Legislature Party in Uttar Pradesh, Pradeep Mathur said the party will stage a protest if the administration remains a silent spectator to the incident.

    “To protect the democratic norms, Congress would state a dharna if the administration remains a silent spectator and no action is taken against the alleged BJP/RSS activists who assaulted the police,” Mathur said at a press conference in the presence of senior party leaders of the district.

    RLD state vice president Kunvar Narendra Singh had also demanded action against the those involved in the incident.

     

  • 36 booked for freeing criminal from police custody in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI
    MUZAFFARNAGAR: Thirty-six people were booked and four of them arrested for allegedly attacking a police team and freeing a criminal here, an officer said on Sunday.

    The incident took place in Sherpur village under Kotwali Police Station on Saturday when a police team had gone to arrest Imlakh, who is a history-sheeter, the officer said.

    As the team took Imlakh into custody, some villagers showed up and attacked the police personnel and freed the criminal who remains at large, police said.

     

  • Covid resurgence: UP govt scraps annual exams, promotes 1.6 crore students to next level

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: In the wake of the increasing number of Covid cases, the Yogi Adityanath government has promoted over 1.6 crore students of Class I to Class VIII in the state without making them appear for annual examinations.

    The state government scrapped annual examinations in about 1.3 lakh primary schools. The exams scheduled for March 25 and 26 were cancelled and schools were closed for the Holi holidays till March 31 owing to the surge of Covid cases in about 65 districts.

    Active Covid cases doubled in the state during the last six days with 55% of the cases surfacing in nine districts led by state capital Lucknow.

    During the last 24 hours, the state registered 836 fresh cases with four persons died of Covid.

    The state government had declared the closure of primary schools in March last year. They were reopened on February 10 (for Class V to VIII) and March 1 (for classes I to IV) after nearly a year.

    The Director General of Primary Education Vijay Kiran Anand said that the new session of Class 1 to VIII would begin from April 1. A decision on holding offline or online classes would be taken shortly after assessing the Covid situation.

    A letter to the principals of all government and private schools directed them to promote students of Class 1 to VIII to the next level.

    The DG, however, said that a performance-based assessment of students would be done in April last. “But no student will be denied promotion to the next level under the Right to Education Act,” he added.

    Promotion to students for Class IX to XI will be given only after holding annual examinations. The Deputy Chief Minister Dr Dinesh Sharma has already announced to reschedule UP Board examinations in view of three-tier Panchayat polls.

  • Four dead after consuming spurious liquor in UP’s Chitrakoot; three people hospitalised

    By PTI
    CHITRAKOOT: Four people died while three more took ill after allegedly consuming spurious liquor in a village here, police said on Sunday.

    Inspector General, Chitrakoot Dham (range), K Satya Narayan said a sub-inspector and a constable have been suspended on charges of laxity following the incident, and action is being initiated against the station house officer of Rajapur.

    “A person of Khopa village died after consuming liquor on Saturday evening, while another died at a private hospital,” he said.

    The officer said four people in serious condition were referred to Allahabad for treatment, but two of them died on the way.

    “Till now four people have died,” the IG added.

    He said two people were undergoing treatment in Allahabad and a former village pradhan has also been hospitalised.

    Upon preliminary inquiry, it has come to light that the victims consumed countrymade liquor on Saturday, after which they fell sick, Satya Narayan said.

    There is no liquor sale outlet in the village, and the liquor was brought from a shop located almost 15 kilometres away, the IG said.

    The person who sold the liquor has been taken into custody and is being interrogated, he added.

     

  • Uttar Pradesh man held under anti-conversion law after attempting to set wife, kids afire

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: In a case of attempted forcible conversion in the state capital Lucknow, a Muslim man was arrested for marrying a Hindu girl by hiding his real religious identity and attempting to allegedly burn her and two kids alive when she refused to change religion and did not allow khatna (circumcision as per Islamic tradition) of her son.

    As per police sources, the man posed as Rajiv, an orphan, and married a Hindu girl on February 13, 2009. However, his real name was Mohammed Afzal Siddiqui. The girl came to know about his real identity when she moved into his house in Thakurganj area of Lucknow. She lodged several complaints against him with the police but to no avail.

    The girl alleged that her husband continued to force her to embrace Islam and used to thrash her on her refusal. Police sources said that the victim claimed that for the past one year, Siddiqui was asking her to have sexual relations with at least seven persons to convert to Islam. But she refused.

    Siddiqui then started mounting pressure on the girl for the ritual khatna (circumcision) of their son so that the kids were raised as per Islamic traditions but the girl refused that also.bInfuriated over this, Siddiqui locked the victim and his two kids in a room and poured kerosene and set the room afire to burn all three alive.

    The wife, somehow, dialed 112 and sought help. Police and a fire tender were rushed in time to douse the rising flames from the house. She and her kids were saved before the fire engulfed the room.

    Siddiqui was arrested by the police on Wednesday. An FIR was registered against him, his parents and a few clerics  under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021 and relevant Sections of the IPC. He was produced before a local court on Friday and sent to 14 days judicial custody.

    As per senior police officials, the couple had been having a discord for quite some time. Both had been levelling charges of infidelity against each other. A few days ago, Siddiqui had faced police action for breaching the peace.

  • UP shocker: Woman, newborn die after Class 8 dropout performs C-section with shaving blade

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: In a shocking incident of medical negligence reported from Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, a woman and her newborn baby bled to death after a Class 8 dropout, employed at a local village clinic, performed a Caesarean section on the expectant mother with a shaving blade.

    The woman died after Rajendra Shukla, 30, used a shaving blade and performed a C-section surgery on her to take the baby out of her womb. The baby died minutes after the birth.

    According to sources, Shukla was employed at a private hospital — Maa Sharda Hospital — in Saini village by Rajesh Sahni to perform surgeries at the facility.

    Local sources claimed Sahni used to run his unregistered medical facility with quacks and midwives. Meanwhile, the district police authorities brought the incident to the notice of Sultanpur chief medical officer (CMO) to act against such illegal clinics operating in the district putting the lives of people at stake.

    Both Shukla and Sahni were arrested and booked following a police complaint by the woman’s husband Rajaram.

    The incident surfaced when Rajaram filed a complaint that his wife and newborn child died due to medical negligence, Sultanpur SP Arvind Chaturvedi said.

    “We found that it was an unregistered clinic with no infrastructure to perform surgeries. Quacks used razor blades to conduct operations,” said the SP.

    Baldiram SHO Amrendra Singh said when the woman was getting labour pangs, she was taken to a midwife who asked Rajaram to take her to a primary health centre in Deeh.

    “There an auxiliary nurse examined Poonam and told Rajaram to move her to the hospital as her condition was critical,” he said, adding when Rajaram took his wife to Maa Sharda Hospital where Rajendra Shukla performed the C-section on her and when the patient started bleeding profusely on the makeshift operation table, he asked Rajaram to take her to the district hospital. As her condition worsened, the woman was brought to KGMU Trauma Centre, Lucknow, where she succumbed.