Raja Bhaiyya had been arrested during Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati's reign in November 2002 and held under POTA.
Raja Bhiayya's resignation from the ministerial job was accepted by UP Governor T V Rajeswar on Sunday.
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Non-bailable arrest warrants have been issued against controversial Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya, Samajwadi Party member of Parliament Akshay Pratap Singh and 25 others for failing to appear in court.\n\n
A day after the Central Bureau of Investigation gave a clean chit to independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya in Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia-ul-Haq's murder case, the former Uttar Pradesh minister met Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav fuelling speculations about his re-induction as minister in the government.
The Central Bureau of Investigation may give a clean chit to former Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya in the murder of Kunda Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia-ul-Haq as it has not found any anomaly in the lie detector test conducted on him.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday kept the bulk of ministries, including the key Home and Finance, with him.
Independent legislator Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya was Saturday re-inducted into the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet.
The Mulayam Singh-led government had withdrawn the case.
The best-case scenario is that the BJP will top out at around 50 seats in UP -- a drop of 12 from the 62 it had won in 2019. Taken in tandem with Maharashtra and Karnataka, this is what is likely to put paid to the BJP's ambitions of a third term for Modi, argues Prem Panicker.
How did an Independent candidate win a seat in the face of the NaMo wave in UP?
The SP also alleged that it was the BJP people who got Umesh Pal, a key witness in the 2005 killing of then BSP legislator Raju Pal, murdered.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Tuesday rejected the agency's closure report giving clean chit to controversial minister Raja Bhaiyya in Kunda Deputy Superintendent of Police, Zia-ul-Haq's murder case, and directed it to further investigate the matter.
Candidates contesting from Kunda (in Pratapgarh), Malhani (in Jaunpur), and Rasara (in Ballia) failed to secure enough votes to prevent forfeiture of their deposits.
The number of policemen injured in them was 1,443 and 13 were killed, the data showed.
What does someone from Uttar Pradesh on the streets of Mumbai think of the results back home?
Congress candidate from Banda Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, Vivek Kumar Singh, has complained to Election Commission that dacoits in the region are terrorising villagers to vote for a particular party amid reports that bandits are calling the shots in Banda.
According to an insider, "Winning is all that matters to the BJP. The leaders were warned that he was an undesirable character but they said look at his victory margin."
'Since Piku, Irrfan seemed content in delighting us with his finesse than striking a nerve.' 'Now, why was this so?' 'Why did our No 1 soul-searching actor suddenly decide that he'd rather be a heart-warmer?' 'Did those journeys take too much out of him?' asks Sreehari Nair.
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