Topic: UP
UP: Mukhtar Ansari gets life in jail in 32-year-old murder case
A Varanasi court on Monday sentenced former lawmaker and gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to life imprisonment for the murder of Congress leader Awadhesh Rai that took place more than 32 years ago.
UP: BJP MP Subrat Pathak attacks cops, threatens to kill officer to rescue kidnapping accused
A case has been lodged by Uttar Pradesh Police against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Subrat Pathak and a group led by him after attacking police officers and threatening to kill a cop.
UP: Rapists on bail set Dalit minor girl’s house on fire, burn two infants
Two infants were in a critical condition Tuesday after a group of men set fire to the home of a minor Dalit girl, whom two of them had raped last year.
UP: 21-year-old girl shot dead in public, one arrested
A 21-year-old college student was shot dead in public by two bike-borne assailants in Uttar Pradesh’s Jalaun on Monday.
Hindu Mahasabha members slaughter cow in Agra, falsely implicate Muslims to incite violence
Members of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha killed a cow in Agra, Uttar Pradesh with the intention of stirring up violence against Muslims and falsely implicating three Muslim men in the crime.
“No evidence!”: UP court acquits 40 men 36 years after killing 72 Muslims in Maliana
A Meerut court has acquitted 40 people accused of arson, murder and rioting in the 36-year-old Maliana anti-Muslim pogrom case for lack of evidence.