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.
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."
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.
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.
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.