Topic: UP

“First, he molested me and now he has shot my father. He had come to our village. There were six-seven people. My father had no enmity against anyone. His name is Gaurav Sharma.”

Accusing the Uttar Pradesh police officials of trying to cover up the matter, relatives of two Dalit girls, who were found dead at a field in Asoha village of Unnao, demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the matter, as police said a preliminary autopsy found no injuries on the victims and didn’t mention sexual assault.

After two minor Dalit girls aged 13 and 16, were found dead in a field in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh while another minor Dalit girl (17) is very critical, Dalit groups, activists and Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Azad have demanded that the Dalit girl who is struggling for survival be immediately shifted to AIIMS-Delhi for better treatment.

Hours after Uttar Pradesh Police''s Special Task Force claimed that two members of the Popular Front of India (PFI) who "were planning a series of terrorist attacks at various places in the country" were arrested with a huge quantity of explosives, PFI strongly condemned the arrests of its members and alleged that UP STF is "creating a ridiculous fake story of terror attack."

Despite prohibitory orders in place under section 144 of the CrPC, thousands of farmers turned up for a khap mahapanchayat in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district Friday to protest against the Narendra Modi government's three new farm laws.

An FIR under several charges, including sedition, has been registered against Muslim student activist and Fraternity Movement national secretary Sharjeel Usmani in Lucknow’s Hazratganj police station in connection with his speech at the Elgaar Parishad conclave last month.