AGRA: A hotel owner’s son has been accused of holding a 13-year-old girl captive and raping her at gunpoint at the hotel situated on Fatehabad Road on Monday. On Friday night, the girl’s mother filed a complaint at the Tajganj police station following which police registered a case of rape and abduction. The complaint filed…
AGRA: A district court in Kasganj has sentenced a 48-year-old man to life imprisonment for forcing his five-year-old daughter into a sack and setting her ablaze, resulting in severe burns which ultimately led to her death. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict. According to additional district government counsel (ADGC),…
Image used for representative purpose only AGRA: A seven-year-old child was allegedly beaten and subjected to cruelty by his teacher at a private school in the Lodha police station area of Aligarh after reportedly forgetting his school bag, police said on Wednesday. The child returned home crying and recounted the incident to his mother, leading…
AGRA: The 400-year-old ‘golden’ murals at Mughal emperor Akbar’s tomb in Agra have been damaged in incessant rains, with their panels getting detached and colours fading due to the moisture. The lack of timely conservation has worsened the situation, with efforts now underway to prevent them from further deterioration. Scaffolding has been installed to protect…
AGRA: A woman was allegedly raped inside a car on the Agra-Lucknow expressway after two men lured her to Lucknow with the promise of “genuine” educational certificates, filmed the assault, and abandoned her on the expressway before fleeing, police said on Monday.Officers have launched a search for the accused after the woman lodged a complaint…
This is a representational image AGRA: An advocate, his three sons and two of their associates have been arrested on the charges of abducting and murdering a 40-year-old woman lawyer of Kasganj, Mohini Tomar, on Sept 3. Her body was found in a canal a day later, sparking outrage among the legal community in UP.After…
The BSA in Aligarh has directed over 2,000 government schools to avoid filming unwell individuals in classrooms and report such cases to block education officers. AGRA: The basic shiksha adhikari (BSA) in Aligarh has issued a circular to over 2,000 govt schools in the district on Friday against the shooting of videos of “unwell individuals”…
Agra: A 23-year-old man in Uttar Pradesh‘s Mathura district killed his 55-year-old father as he allegedly opposed his same-sex relationship. Police have arrested four individuals, two of whom, including the accused son, sustained bullet injuries during an encounter on Monday.Investigations revealed that the son conspired with three accomplices, including his partner, to kill Mohanlal Sharma,…
AGRA: In Seegana village of Agra, a pre-secondary school principal and a teacher engaged in a physical fight that was caught on video and went viral on social media.The incident began when the principal scolded the teacher, Gunja Chaudhary, for arriving late to school. This led to a heated argument, with the teacher alleging that…
AGRA: In the city of Taj Mahal, politics intertwines with history and tourism. While the iconic mausoleum symbolises the city’s past glory, its political landscape bears the imprint of Dalit influence — Agra has earned the moniker of ‘Dalit capital of northern India’ — owing to its substantial Scheduled Caste (SC) population, constituting 25% of…
