Uttar Pradesh

Chitrakoot (UP), Mar 6 (PTI) A 20-year-old woman was found dead on Sunday in a village in Mau area here, with police suspecting that she was raped before being killed.

Superintendent of Police Dhawal Jaiswal said injury marks on the woman's neck suggested that she was strangulated.

The woman was missing since Saturday evening, he said, adding that some persons have been detained in connection with the case.

Prima facie the woman was raped and killed, Jaiswal said.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Mar 6 (PTI) A woman studying in a college here was allegedly abducted, taken to Delhi and gang-raped by five people, police said on Sunday.

They said a case has been registered against the accused based on a complaint lodged by the woman's family, and she was sent for a medical examination.

According to the complaint, the woman was abducted outside the college in Khatoli town on Friday and taken to Delhi in a car where she was gang-raped, SHO Dharmendra Kumar said.

Lucknow, Mar 6 (PTI) Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said the alliance led by his party will emerge victorious in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls and will work to safeguard the rights and honour of the people of the state.

In a statement issued here, he urged people to vote in large numbers in the seventh and final phase of the election on Monday to save democracy and the Constitution.

In the seventh phase of the election, voting will be held on 54 Assembly seats spread over nine districts.

Mathura, Mar 6 (PTI) Four people sustained injuries in a clash after they visited the home of a local resident, alleging that beef was stored there, police said here on Sunday.

The incident took place in the Manoharpura area under the Kotwali police station when members of the Gaurakhshak Dal, a cow vigilante group, knocked at the door of a local resident.

They alleged that beef was stored in the house, leading to an altercation and a scuffle.

"Four vigilantes were injured in the incident," SP (City) Martand Prakash Singh said.

Lucknow, Mar 6 (PTI) Voting for the seventh and final phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections covering 54 seats, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency Varanasi, will be held on Monday to decide the phase of 613 candidates.

Polling will start at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm in Azamgarh, Mau, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Sonbhadra districts.

Varanasi (UP), Mar 4 (PTI) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav conducted a road show here late Friday evening, a little after the conclusion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign, ahead of the March 7 polling.

Standing atop his Samajwadi Rath', Yadav began his roadshow from the Rath Yatra roundabout in the pilgrim city and moved around in the areas covering the three Assembly seats -- Cantonment, Varanasi North and Varanasi South. He campaigned on the route different than the one taken by Modi earlier.

Mirzapur (UP), Mar 5 (PTI) The contest for the five assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur appears to be challenging for the BJP even though it had swept the district, neighbouring the prime minister's Varanasi parliamentary constituency, last time riding the Modi wave .

The five seats of Mirzapur Chunar, Mariyan, Mirzapur Nagar, Majhawan and Chhanbey will vote in the last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, and are poised for a strong contest between the BJP and the Samajwadi Party.

Varanasi (UP), Mar 3 (PTI) BSP president Mayawati on Thursday said her party will form the government in the state and send Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath back to his mutt , alleging that he worked with a narrow and casteist mindset, and ignored Dalits, backwards and Muslims at every level.

She also slammed a section of the media and accused it of bringing out exit polls in favour of the BJP and other rival parties of the BSP.

Varanasi, Mar 4 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a roadshow in Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency, on Friday in support of BJP candidates ahead of the last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on March 7.

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav is also slated to hold a roadshow in Varanasi in evening.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Mar 4 (PTI) Four local BJP leaders have been booked for allegedly falsifying documents to get a lease sanctioned from the government for sand mining in Shamli district, police said on Friday.

According to the police, farmer Lilu Singh alleged that the accused got the lease to lift sand from his field in Yusufpur Chotra village under the Jhinjhana police station using fake documents.