The Supreme Court will hear on Friday the plea of the wife of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari seeking directions to the Uttar Pradesh authorities to ensure that her husband’s life is “protected” in the state besides being accorded fair trial in cases against him. A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and R Subhash Reddy, as per … Read more
The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed the pleas seeking removal of former high court judge, Justice (retd) Shashi Kant Agarwal and retired Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) K L Gupta, from the three-member inquiry commission set up to probe into the encounter killing of gangster Vikas Dubey. A bench headed by Chief Justice S … Read more
LUCKNOW: With three victims of alleged police inaction dead in one week in Uttar Pradesh, law and order in the state has remained a challenge for the Yogi Adityanath government. According to the police, the latest victim, Sanjeet Yadav, a 28-year old lab technician from Kanpur, was kidnapped on June 22 by five of his … Read more
LUCKNOW: Even as the dust kicked up by Vikas Dubey’s encounter killing is yet to settle down, two people lost their lives in separate incidents in UP highlighting once again the “inaction of the police and its collusion with the gangsters” of the state. On Wednesday, a Ghaziabad-based journalist, who was shot at by local … Read more
Vikas Dubey was a goon, killer, in 2001, of a minister inside a police station when BJP ruled the state, criminal overlord of a small chunk of Kanpur district, politician-cum-muscleman, killer of eight policemen recently, fugitive and victim of an Uttar Pradesh police ‘encounter’. More pertinently, in the light of public approbation of his killing … Read more
LUCKNOW: Senior Congress leader Jitin Prasada on Saturday said while it has been a long-standing demand of party workers that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra be the party’s face in the 2022 UP Assembly elections, it is a “strategic decision” to be taken by the “Congress Working Committee and Priyanka ji herself”. Prasada, who is a special … Read more
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday asserted that his government has shown zero tolerance towards crime and corruption and perception about the state has changed in the last three years. He said better law-and-order situation is a pre-condition for attracting investments. “It is our responsibility to take whatever steps required for … Read more
KANPUR | LUCKNOW (UP): All 68 police personnel at Chaubeypur police station near here were shunted to the reserve police lines on Tuesday with the top brass saying they suspected their integrity after last week’s ambush which killed eight policemen. A spokesperson said an inquiry is already on and action will be taken against the … Read more