PILIBHIT: A 29-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly stripped in front of several villagers in a sugarcane field when she tried to rescue her husband’s younger brother from the clutches of his attackers, who were brutally beating him over some dispute. Six accused were booked following a complaint.The victim, belonging to a village under Kheri police…
BAREILLY: A family of three — a widow in her 50s and her son and daughter — was forced to seek shelter at a friend’s house after they were evicted from their home in Chandausi town in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district within an hour after officials served an evacuation notice claiming the structure encroached on…
BAREILLY: The file of the riots that occurred in Sambhal 46 years ago will be reopened following the Uttar Pradesh government’s order. In Sambhal, which was a part of Moradabad district then, nearly 184 people reportedly died, and the accused were acquitted by the court due to lack of evidence in 2010. Now, the UP…
BAREILY: Police are now suspecting that the Nov 24 violence in Sambhal was “orchestrated by absconding gangster Shariq Satha“, a native of the western UP town who is allegedly settled in the UAE. This comes after they found “unusual money transfer to account holders in Sambhal and foreign-made cartridges”. Earlier, police had said they had…
The district administration and Municipal Corporation in Sambhal have commenced the revival of 68 pilgrimage sites and 19 ancient wells, including the Mrityu Koop BAREILLY: In their attempt to restore 68 pilgrimage sites and 19 ancient wells, the district administration and Municipal Corporation in Sambhal have started reviving the “Mrityu Koop (death well).” The excavation…
BAREILLY: An ambulance carrying the bodies of three Khalistan Zindabad Force terrorists, killed in a joint operation by Punjab and Uttar Pradesh Police crashed on late Tuesday night, police officials confirmed.The accident took place near the Rampur bypass.Read also: 3 pro-Khalistan terrorists killed in police encounter in UP’s PilibhitRampur district superintendent of police, Vidyasagar Mishra,…
BAREILLY: In Sambhal’s Chandausi town, the excavation of a 150-year-old stepwell in the Laxman Ganj locality continued for the second day.A tunnel was discovered on Saturday, which is believed to be connected to the Banke Bihari Temple. District magistrate Rajender Pensiya said, “The temple will be renovated and encroachments in the vicinity will be removed….
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Zia Ur Rehman Barq was slapped with a hefty fine of Rs 1.91 crore by the Uttar Pradesh Power Department on Friday over allegations of electricity theft.The action follows a police case registered against the MP on Thursday for allegedly stealing electricity at his residence in Sambhal’s Deepa Sarai…
BAREILLY: An FIR was registered against Sambhal’s MP, Zia-ur-Rahman Barq, in an alleged power theft case after power officials found some issues with the electric meter. The FIR is registered at Nakhasa Anti Power Theft police station under section 135 of the Indian Electricity Act (Amendment) 2003 on the complaint of SDO Santosh Tripathi, who…
BAREILLY: In a major development, the Sambhal police found a connection between the Sambhal violence and Pakistan, as an empty cartridge of a bullet made in Pakistan was recovered from the incident site on Tuesday. Six cartridges were recovered from the drains at the incident site. One of them was made in Pakistan, while another…
