Earlier, army chief Gen Bipin Rawat said that full cooperation will be extended in investigation of the incident.
Shambhu Nath, a senior IAS officer of 1970 batch has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary with immediate effect, the EC sources said.
The Uttar Pradesh police will conduct a narco test on the main accused in the killing of Sheeba Thomas and injuring of retired Major General TJS Gill in Noida on April 9. "The main accused in the shooting that killed Sheeba and injured Gil and the looting of three vehicles, Lakshman alias Lakhi Yadav, has been remanded in police custody for seven days," DGP Vikram Singh said. The DGP said that Yadav is at present being interrogated by senior police officials.
Within hours of announcing his plans to float a political outfit ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur was arrested from his residence in Lucknow on Friday on serious charges, including abetment of suicide of a rape victim and her friend in Delhi recently.
Even as the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha opposed the police's move, the law enforcers said the errors would be rectified and the posters put up again.
Subhash Batham, who is a murder accused, had invited the children for a birthday party. Batham fired from inside the house when police reached there. Commandos are being rushed to the spot.
He was hit on the head by a stone when he went to end a traffic jam caused by the protests.
Following the gruesome incident, Adityanath had announced a compensation of Rs 40 lakh for Singh's wife, Rs 10 lakh for his parents and a government job for a member of his family.
'The prowess with which they executed the shootings unmistakably bear the imprint of someone who has had professional training.'
Under NSA, the government can detain a person for as long as it wishes and the authorities need not disclose the grounds of detention. A person booked under the provision of Gangsters Act becomes part of a gang listed in police records. It entitles the police to keep track of those booked under the Act and issue summons to them for attendance at the local police station for questioning even if no fresh case is lodged against them.
A three-member delegation of the party -- Union ministers Venkaiah Naidu, Nirmala Sitharaman and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi -- met EC officials and submitted their memorandum.
CM Yogi Adityanath expressed condolences and directed DGP Sulkhan Singh to immediately follow up on the investigations to nab the culprits.
The chief minister will meet them at his Kalidas Marg residence in Lucknow.
Police said there was a dispute between Chaudhary and Kaushal over money.
The rape survivor, who is a postgraduate student at one of the colleges run by Chinmayanand's organisation, has alleged that she was raped and "physically exploited" for a year by the former Union minister.
A decision has also been taken for providing security permanently in the village, the senior officer, who along with DGP H C Awasthy rushed to meet the victim's family on the instructions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, said.
'It is not the chief minister who would have rung up and told the local police station to botch up the case.' 'No chief minister or chief secretary or DGP would like a case like this happening in their state.'
Wasim, UP PFI head, was arrested for masterminding the violence, police said. 33 FIRs have been filed in Lucknow and 150 people have been arrested so far.
Director General of Police O P Singh said that two people lost their lives in Bijnor and one each in Meerut, Sambhal and Firozabad. But officials reported a death in Kanpur as well.
A team of the National Commission for Women (NCW) on Sunday met the family members of a woman who died after being brutally raped, and also visited the crime spot as well as the hospital where she was treated, a police official said.
Heads have started rolling over the violence in Muzaffarnagar with the Uttar Pradesh government today transferring top police officials, including Saharanpur DIG, SSP Muzaffarnagar and SP Shamli.
Police on Thursday registered a case of murder into the deaths of two teenage girls whose bodies were found in a field in Unnao even as a post-mortem revealed no injury marks.
The Kumaon region, under which Nainital falls, has been the worst hit by the rains which began Sunday night, killing at least 46 people in the state as houses collapsed and bridges were washed away by swollen rivers.
Uttar Pradesh Police claimed that the situation was now again turning normal.
"As of now, two accused persons are still absconding and we are tracking them," the DGP said.
A local 'hybrid terrorist' of proscribed outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was arrested for the attack during a search and cordon operation, police said.
Almost an year ago the National Green Tribunal had ordered the closure of these two slaughterhouses, an official said.
Eight persons died in the early hours of Tuesday after their houses caught fire at Rampurhat in Birbhum district, police said.
Delhi's power circles can expect a surprise when a not-so-known officer is appointed to head the CBI.
The constable had claimed that he had opened fire at Tiwari when he refused to stop his car. But, the SIT report says Tiwari was trying to leave the spot when he was intercepted by police and hit the patrol motorcycle.
People pelted stones at police personnel in Prayagraj and Saharanpur as people took to rowdiness during their protests after Friday prayers.
The family members of the two teenage girls, who were allegedly gangraped and murdered here, on Monday staged a sit-in along with hundreds of villagers to protest against the remarks of Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police A L Banerjee and 'delay' in the Central Bureau of Investigation probe in the case.
'If he has been able to overcome this major obstacle (withdrawal of POCSO after the complainant and victim withdrew the charge) I don't think he has anything to worry about now.' 'Cancellation of POCSO is akin to giving him a lifeline.'
Over 260 policemen were also injured, of whom 57 received gunshot wounds, IG (Law and Order) Praveen Kumar said on Saturday.
Two constables, Prashant Chowdhury and Sandeep Kumar, were arrested after an FIR was lodged on basis of a complaint by Tiwari's colleague Sana Khan, who was travelling with him.
Non-Gujaratis were targeted and hate messages circulated against them on social media after a native of Bihar was arrested for allegedly raping the toddler on September 28.
Claiming that no untoward incident had taken place during the last 48 hours, Rupani said the situation has been brought under control by police.
Landslides blocked roads, many villages went without electricity and the death toll climbed to 52 as authorities on Wednesday faced the aftermath of the rains that had battered Uttarakhand for over two days.
At least 24 people, including two policemen, were killed as police tried to evict around 3,000 encroachers from a park in Mathura in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.
As part of the initiative, all the 1,469 police stations in the state will have a WhatsApp group consisting of 250 members including ex-servicemen, teachers, doctors, advocates and journalists among others, UP Director General of Police O P Singh said.
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