The Sports Authority of India (SAI) on Friday said that the Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested three persons, including a former kabaddi player, for fleecing athletes through a false advertisement for Khelo India Games.
The woman, 35, had set herself on fire near the Uttar Pradesh Assembly building, succumbed to the injuries at a hospital in Lucknow.
Uttar Pradesh police said they have arrested four people suspected to have links with the Popular Front of India, an alleged radical group, and its affiliate in Mathura when they were on their way to Hathras district.
Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti said Friday the "suspicious" action of UP police in the Hathras incident has "dented" the image of the BJP, the state government and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and requested him to allow media persons and politicians to meet the victim's family.
The Yogi Adityanath-led administration in Uttar Pradesh is facing the heat following the gangrape and murder of 19-year-old girl as demand for the 'Justice for Hathras Nirbhaya' grows.
Speaking on why media has been restricted to enter Hathras village, Additional SP Prakash Kumar said, "the restriction on the entry of media into the village will stay till the SIT completes its probe there. Due to the prevailing law & order situation, no political delegations or individuals will be allowed to visit the village."
Samajwadi Party workers were on Friday lathi charged by the police in Hazratganj area here while they were taking out a protest march against the Hathras gangrape and farm laws.
The 19-year-old Dalit woman, who died in a Delhi hospital a fortnight after she was gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, was cremated in the early hours of Wednesday, with her family alleging the local police forced them to conduct the last rites in the dead of the night.
An Uttar Pradesh Police constable was suspended late on Saturday night after a video clip showed him thrashing a physically handicapped man in Kannauj. The Kannauj Police announced the suspension from its Twitter handle.
The wife and son of a senior railway officer found shot dead in a posh area of Uttar Pradesh capital have been allegedly killed by the minor daughter, police said.
A constable of the Uttar Pradesh Police was arrested along with his associate for allegedly abducting a man and robbing him off his valuables at gunpoint in the national capital, the Delhi Police said on Thursday. Shreekant (30), the constable, is the alleged mastermind while his associate, Raghu Khosla, was previously involved in more than 100 cases, they said.
A video of a teenage girl has gone viral on social media, in which she has alleged that an Inspector of the Govind Nagar police station asked her to dance in lieu of registering an FIR against the nephew of her landlord.
A well known ciminal and the accused in the murder of BJP leader Krishnanand Rai, Hanuman Pandey alias Rakesh Pandey, has been shot dead in an encounter in Lucknow.
Around a dozen shops were gutted after a fire broke out at a market in Greater Noida (West) area of Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Thursday night, officials said.
According to police, the six-year-old boy was standing at a distance when the accused persons in a car approached him to give hand sanitiser and pulled him inside the vehicle.
Vikas Dubey encounter: Gangster Vikas Dubey was killed early this morning in an encounter with police in Kanpur. Dubey tried to escape after the car in which he was being taken to court overturned, police said. His death was confirmed by the doctors at Hallet Hospital at 7.55 am today.
Vikas Dubey, prime accused in killing of 8 police personnel, was killed in an encounter today. Meanwhile, Vikas Dubey's mother Sarla Dubey, on being asked by police whether she wanted to go to Kanpur, said, "she doesn't want to go to Kanpur, adding she has no relation with Vikas Dubey."
Vikas Dubey, UP gangster, has been killed in an encounter today. However, hours before Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter, a petition in the Supreme Court had demanded urgent listing for action into the possible "killing" of Dubey by UP Police since other accused involved were killed in the encounter.
The Uttar Pradesh police have increased the reward money for information on Vikas Dubey, prime accused in Kanpur encounter case, to Rs 5 lakh.
The Haryana Police, which was expected to address a press conference after dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey was spotted in a Faridabad hotel, has been put on hold. The criminal was allegedly spotted at an OYO hotel but managed to escape before the cops arrived.
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