Topic: uttarpradesh
Four months after father’s arrest, UP STF now arrests Umar Gautam’s son under anti-conversion law
Abdullah, son of jailed Muslim scholar, Mohammed Umar Gautam, has been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Sunday under draconian anti-conversion law.
Two minor Dalit sisters raped by Shakya caste-men in Uttar Pradesh village
A 17-year-old Class IX student and her 16-year-old cousin, both belonging to a Dalit family, were raped by two men Guarav Shakya (21) and Saurabh Shakya (20) from a neighboring village in UP’s Mainpuri district on Friday evening.
UP under Yogi govt an ‘active theater of police killings’, calls civil groups’ report
Civil society organisations who have studied 17 cases of extrajudicial killings in Uttar Pradesh, which took place between March 2017 and March 2018 and led to 18 people’s deaths, found that in not one case has an FIR been registered against the police officers who were involved in the killing.
UP: 7 booked for celebrating Pakistan’s cricket victory over India, 4 arrested
Uttar Pradesh Police has booked seven persons and taken four into custody on Wednesday for allegedly celebrating Pakistani team’s win against India in the T20 World Cup match that was held on October 24.
Lakhimpur Kheri: Supreme Court directs UP govt to give security to witnesses
The Supreme Court Tuesday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to grant protection to witnesses in the case involving farmers run over in Lakhimpur Kheri earlier this month, by Union Minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra.
79 cases under UP’s anti-conversion law so far; Muslim men including scholars still behind bars
79 cases registered against unlawful conversion under the 2020 stringent law in Uttar Pradesh till July this year and charge sheets have been filed in 50 cases, according to a document submitted by the State government in the Allahabad High Court.
