Topic: Azamgarh
UP: Akhilesh Yadav’s SP loses his Lok Sabha seat Azamgarh to BJP
In a setback to the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday emerged victorious in both Azamgarh and Rampur seats in the by-elections to the UP Lok Sabha constituencies.
UP: After 14 months of incarceration, court quashes NSA charge against six Muslim men
A division bench of Allahabad High Court on Friday quashed the charges invoked under the National Security Act (NSA) against six anti-CAA protesters in Uttar Pradesh’s Mau district, terming the administration’s NSA orders "illegal."
Azamgarh’s Muslim man murdered by UP Special Task Force, alleges family
Family members of Azamgarh resident Kamran have alleged that he was not killed in the police encounter as claimed by authorities but the injuries on his body show that he was murdered by the cops. They demanded a probe into the killing of the 40-year-old Muslim.
UP: Muslim youth arrested over Facebook post calling for Palestine solidarity
The Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday, arrested Yasir Akhtar, a Muslim youth from Saraimeer town close to Azamgarh, for his post on Facebook on appealing to show solidarity to Palestine.
Rajbhar is my friend and we will show our strength in UP now: Owaisi
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) supremo and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday visited Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh and Jaunpur.
Court grants bail to Tahir Madani arrested in anti-CAA protest case
An Uttar Pradesh court Friday granted bail to Tahir Madani, an Islamic scholar and General Secretary of Rashtriya Ulama Council, in a case related to protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Azamgarh.
