The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a plea for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the murder of jailed Lucknow deputy chief medical officer Dr Y S Sachan.
Three government doctors were on Tuesday charged of destroying evidence through manipulation of post-mortem report in the case of rape and strangulation of 14-year-old Sonam inside the premises of Nighasan police station in Lakhimpur-Kheri district, about 170 km from Lucknow, on June 10.
Three wild elephants were on Friday electrocuted after they came in contact with a dangling live high voltage cable in the thick confines of Uttar Pradesh's famous Dudhwa National Wildlife Park.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is not amused with what's going on in her state. The chief minister trained guns on Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi who undertook a four-day long padyatra that culminated into a much hyped kisan mahapanchayat at Aligarh on Saturday.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Friday trained her guns on Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi for allegedly refusing to have a meal in a Dalit's home, where he spent Thursday night, during the course of his four-day old padyatra in parts of Western Uttar Pradesh.
The bus that was smashed to bits after it was hit by a train at an unmanned railway crossing in a village in Uttar Pradesh was being driven by the cleaner, not the driver, at the time of the mishap. The accident at Kanshi Ram Nagar district in the wee hours of Thursday killed 38 passengers. The bus was carrying members of a marriage party, who were on the way back to their village after the wedding.
The Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday claimed that Hari Mohan Sharma, the man who was nabbed with a gun at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's padayatra, was innocent. Sharma was detained while trying to move close to the Congress general secretary during the latter's padayatra to Aligarh. Sharma, who was carrying a .32 bore revolver, was nabbed by the Special Protection Group personnel when he was found nearing the second ring of the Congress leader's security cordon.
Several persons including a deputy inspector general of police were injured in a violent clash between the police and local Muslims in a village in Moradabad district near Lucknow on Wednesday.
Even as Congress General Secretary and the party's in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Digvijay Singh on Tuesday sought to describe Rahul Gandhi's 'kisan sandesh yatra', which he launched from Bhatta Parsaul early on Tuesday morning as "completely apolitical", both the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party and the Bhartiya Janata Party sought to term it as a "political gimmick."
A young girl was brutally beaten to death, while her boyfriend is struggling for survival after being attacked in the name of 'family honour' in Soran village of Muzaffarnagar district near Lucknow.
The incident acquires greater significance because the crime was committed in the well-guarded residential colony of National Thermal Power Corporation that runs a huge power generation plant in Unchahar town.
Gunner of a circle officer was on Sunday arrested by the CB-CID team probing the death of a minor girl, who was found hanging inside Nighasan police station in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur district.
Dodging the police and media alike in Uttar Pradesh, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi eventually surfaced suddenly in Nighasan town of Lakhimpur-Kheri district, about 170 km from Lucknow, to call on the family of the minor girl who was brutally done to death in the local police station premises exactly 19 days ago.
Defying prohibitory orders, the Congress decided to go ahead with their protest against spurt of crimes in Uttar Pradesh. Scores of Congress activists led by Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee President Rita Bahuguna Joshi were arrested in Lucknow as they tried to march towards the assembly building in Lucknow.
In a post-midnight action, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister ordered the suspension of two police officers who not only assaulted the local bureau chief of IBN - 7, but also tried to frame him in a false criminal case late Sunday night.
Four days after deputy chief medical officer Dr Y S Sachan was found dead in mysterious circumstances in a toilet of the local district jail, the Lucknow police on Sunday conceded the echoing demand from different family members of the victim to register a case of murder against "unidentified persons."
Rejecting the suicide theory of police, family members of Deputy Chief Medical officer Y S Sachan, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances, on Friday demanded that a case of murder be lodged.
In an obvious bid to divert the attention of people from the mysterious death of a jailed medical officer in the state capital, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Friday expelled her party Member of Legislative Assembly Shahnawaz Rana from the primary membership of the party. Rana has been expelled for his alleged involvement in case of attempted rape and molestation of two women.
Even as there were several tell-tale signs of murder, the Uttar Pradesh government continued to stick on to its theory of suicide by jailed deputy chief medical officer Dr Y S Sachan, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances inside the Lucknow district jail on Wednesday night.
Exactly five days after he was named as the key accused Chief Medical Officer Dr B P Singh's murder case in Lucknow, jailed deputy chief medical officer Dr Y S Sachan was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside the Lucknow district jail on Wednesday evening.
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