After day-long skirmishes between rival, sides which left one dead and 20 injured, communal rioting came to an end on Tuesday in Uttar Pradesh's Barielly, about 250 km from Lucknow.
National-level volley ball player Arunima Sinha aka Sonu, who lost her leg after she was thrown out off a moving train in Barielly last week, on Sunday underwent a surgery at the Chattrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical Universitin Lucknow.
Raising serious objections against the manner in which the entire Anna Hazare episode was handled by the Congress leadership during the absence of its President Sonia Gandhi, a Congress member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh has shot off a letter to party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, urging him to get the whole affair investigated by a panel of seasoned Congressmen.
According to Additional Director General of Police Brij Lal, "The victims were mostly aspirants who had gone to Barielly seeking recruitment in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police that undertook a major recruitment drive there."
The decision followed detection of a serious infection for which she underwent a second round of surgery at the King George's Medical College under Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University in Lucknow on Sunday.
The incident involving an assault on a lady police officer by her own constables, caught red-handed extorting money on a highway in Uttar Pradesh's Barielly district, late Thursday night has exposed the decay in the deplorable decay in policing in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.
Three more persons, including two children, died due to severe cold conditions in Uttar Pradesh, taking the toll in the state this winter to 92. The three persons, including an eight-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl, have died due to the cold in Barabanki district in the last 24 hours, officials said.Cold conditions prevailed in most parts of the state and clouds hovered in many places.Lucknow recorded a minimum temperature of 1.4 degree Celsius on Tuesday morning.
Arunima Sinha, a national level volleyball player who lost her leg after being thrown out by robbers from a running train near Bareilly on Monday, will be given a job by the railways which has promised all help for her rehabilitation.
