Uttar Pradesh

Dehradun, Feb 4 (PTI) A POCSO court here has sentenced a man to 20 years imprisonment and three minors to two and a half years in jail for raping their junior student at a boarding school in 2018.

Special POCSO judge Rama Pandey sentenced a total of eight people in the sensational case on Monday. The school principal Jitendra Kumar Sharma was sentenced to three years in prison, director Lata Gupta and administrative officer Deepak Malhotra and his wife Tannu to nine years in prison each.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Feb 3 (PTI) A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man at a village in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Monday.

The 22-year-old man allegedly took the girl to sugarcane fields in Dholri village in Titawi area and raped her on Sunday, the police said.

She was later found crying in the fields by the villagers who took the girl to her home and informed the police, they said.

A case has been registered against the accused and the minor sent for medical examination, the police said.

Aligarh (UP), Feb 4 (PTI) Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Proctor Prof Afifullah Khan on Tuesday resigned from his post, though he did not specify any reasons for the decision.

He stepped down days after the university's Students Coordination Committee demanded resignation of top university officials, including the Proctor, "on moral grounds" in the wake of the campus violence on December 15.

Barabanki, Feb 2 (PTI) A 26-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Sunday.

The accused was the driver of a relative of the girl's family. She has been admitted to the district hospital in a serious condition, they said.

Hapur, Feb 2 (PTI) Acid was allegedly thrown on a rape victim in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district on Sunday, police said.

The victim and her family alleged that a relative of the accused initially pressed them for a compromise and when they refused, he attacked with acid.

They alleged that he targeted the girl's feet and escaped after the incident.

Lucknow, Feb 3 (PTI) Police in Uttar Pradesh has arrested 108 members of the Popular Front of India in the last four days for their alleged involvement in protests against the anti-citizenship law, a senior official said on Monday.

The arrests are in addition to the 25 made earlier, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi told reporters.

Allahabad, Feb 3 (PTI) The Allahabad High Court on Monday granted bail to former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand, accused of sexually abusing a law student.

Chinmayanand, whose trust runs the Shahjahanpur law college where the woman studied, was arrested on September 20 under section 376-C of the IPC, a charge short of rape.

It is applied when someone in authority takes advantage of his official position and induces or seduces a woman to have sex with him.

Kanpur: Though the sun shines glowingly up above so high in the sky, the chilly weather still persists with the cloudy 6-degree minimum temperature. The chilliness is not wholly on the verge of departure. It seems to stay the 29 days of the ongoing month.

What has been predicted by the experts looks not out of the way. The icy winds blowing above the normal speed are making people shudder. Fresh snowfall in hilly regions has extended stay of winter cold for a little longer.

NEW DELHI, Feb 2 (NNN-PTI) – A senior leader of a leading Hindu organisation, Hindu Mahasabha (Ranjeet Yadav), was killed by unidentified assailants, in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, early today (Sunday), said media reports.

Identified as Ranjeet Bachchan, he was shot at, while he was having a morning walk outside his residence, in Uttar Pradesh’s capital city, Lucknow. He was rushed to a hospital but succumbed to his injuries.

Aligarh (UP), Feb 1 (PTI) Child specialist Kafeel Khan who was accused of making an inflammatory speech at AMU was remanded to judicial custody and later transferred to Mathura jail, officials said on Saturday.

Circle Officer (Civil Lines) Anil Samania said Khan was brought here late Friday evening and was produced before the remand magistrate who remanded him to judicial custody.