Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, Oct 4 (PTI) A day after meeting the family of a Dalit woman who died after she was assaulted and allegedly gang-raped in Hathras, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday demanded removal of the district magistrate and an investigation into his role in the entire matter.

Priyanka Gandhi said that according to the family, the district magistrate meted out the worst treatment to them, and asked who was protecting the officer.

Kanpur: As many as 25 Band Groups in the city have lost its business during the last eight months owing to the Corona. The operators are said to be on the verge of starvation. Their trollies are not moving. Even though the poor condition of ghodi (mare) & Bagghi (Coach) suppliers are also terribly gone worse presently.

It has also been reported that the band team has not been getting any fresh order or booking during these scary months owing to vague guidelines, as the band owners maintain.

Lucknow, Oct 2 (PTI) Prayer meetings and protests were held across Uttar Pradesh on Friday with political parties and AMU students seeking justice for the 19-year-old Hathras woman who succumbed to her injuries at a Delhi hospital after she was allegedly raped over a fortnight ago.

The Congress organised prayer meetings across the state.

Senior party leaders, including state Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu, attended one such meeting at the Balmiki temple in the Hussainabad area of Lucknow, a party release said.

Satna (MP), Oct 2 (PTI) Two men have been arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district, police said on Friday.

Lalla Kol (22) and Indrabhan Kol (25) were booked for gang-rape under section 376 of IPC and also under the Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, said inspector K K Sharma.

The girl, who is 16 years old, had lodged the complaint on Wednesday.

Ballia (UP), Oct 3 (PTI) A 15-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped in Sikandarpur Police Station area here, police said on Saturday.

The girl was rescued on Friday morning from Rasra bus stand and the accused identified as 23-year-old Asif has been arrested, SHO, Sikandarpur Amarjeet Yadav said.

The girl was allegedly kidnapped on Wednesday by Asif and raped, the SHO said.

On the complaint of the victim's father a case was registered, he added.

Noida (UP), Oct 3 (PTI) Heavy police deployment has come up on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Noida on Saturday, ahead of a scheduled visit of a Congress delegation that plans to meet the family of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras who died after allegedly being gang-raped.

Barricades were installed at the Delhi-Noida Direct (DND) flyway, where scores of policemen, including senior officers, were present in anti-riot gears since noon, even as CrPC section 144 remained imposed in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar.

Kanpur: An utensil trader was robbed of Rs 2 lacs in Ghatampur of the district on Saturday afternoon.

He did not understand when the miscreants threw Mobil oil on his car.

Despite being the main busy crossing of the place, the vicious miscreants fled away.

The trader coming out of the car tried to know of the exact matter.

In between the duration, the miscreants found time to take out the bag containing the money. The trader learnt later that his money was whisked away from the car.

Lucknow, Oct 3 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu on Saturday said he had been put under house arrest in order to "stop" him from going to Hathras and fight for justice for the Dalit woman who died after she was assaulted and allegedly gang-raped.

Congress spokesperson Anshu Awasthi alleged that the step had been taken to prevent Lallu from joining party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who are again headed towards Hathras in another effort to meet the family of the victim.

Kanpur: The KMC looks determined to remove encroachments along the road extending from the Jarib Chowki road to Vijaynagar road in the city area. It has now awakened from its deep slumber.

Like the city's another roads, the above-mentioned roads are also not completely protected from unpleasant encroachments.

The vehicle body makers find enough empty space to carry on their vocation on pretty wide roads.

Even the broad footpaths have not been left. Repairing and washing of vehicles like buses and trucks go on the whole long day.

Kanpur: Bookies are now reduced to rural areas owing to fear of the police. Their location thus remains free from a police raid. By maintaining their setting in villages they feel secured and find hassle-free benefit, as reports indicate.

With the start of the IPL T20, the bookies thought to confine themselves to remote pastoral sites but active police keep eye on their black business.

The police team began a search operation in the hotels. List of vicious bookies is prepared. An order to catch bookies from the nearby village locations has already been issued.