Uttar Pradesh

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Mar 6 (PTI) A 28-year-old woman was allegedly sexually harassed by a man in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said on Saturday.

SHO Shyambir Singh said the incident took place on Friday when the woman was alone at her house.

Rajbir entered her house and sexually harassed her, the SHO said.

Kanpur: A temperature check remains compulsory for school-going students. Students are made to stand in open for a long time, which they do not like.

Their body temperature soars while standing under the sun. But the school authorities do not allow them to stand in the shade.

On Saturday a student was told to stand in the open as his body temperature was found above normal during the check-up. He requested the teacher to allow him to stand in a shaded area.

Hardoi (UP), Mar 3 (PTI) A man allegedly beheaded his 17-year-old daughter in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district on Wednesday evening and then went to a police station with her severed head, officials said.

Lucknow, Mar 4 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh Assembly was adjourned sine die on Thursday, a week ahead of the schedule, after the House passed the annual budget for 2021-22, the largest budget so far in the history of the state.

The government presented the last budget of its current tenure last week with an outlay of Rs 5,50,270.78 crore.

The first paperless budget of Uttar Pradesh, which intends to make the state "aatmanirbhar" (self-reliant) as Finance Minister Suresh Khanna put it, includes new schemes worth Rs 27,598.40 crore.

Mahoba (UP), Mar 4 (PTI) A 20-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by three youths in City area here, police said on Thursday.

An FIR was registered on Wednesday by the victim against the three men, all residents of Gandhi Nagar locality. She has alleged that the three youths gang-raped her five months ago and also made a video of the act that was used to blackmail her, the police said.

Banda (UP), Mar 3 (PTI) An elderly man has been arrested for allegedly raping an eight-year-old Dalit girl in a village here, police said on Wednesday.

The incident took place in the Baberu area in Banda district in Uttar Pradesh around 6 pm on Tuesday when the girl was playing near her house.

The accused, identified as Jagdish Pal, 70, was arrested later, Circle Officer Siyaram said, adding the girl has been sent for medical examination.

According to the police, the girl has a vision problem and cannot see clearly.

Lucknow, Mar 3 (PTI) The son of BJP MP Kaushal Kishore was shot at in Lucknow on early Wednesday, but the police claimed that he had staged the attack on him by his brother-in-law to implicate some persons.

Ayush (30), the son of the BJP MP from Mohanlalganj constituency, was shot at in the Madiaon area around 2 am.

He was rushed to a hospital from where he was discharged after first-aid.

Bulandshahr (UP), Mar 3 (PTI) A 22-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly killing a minor girl after a failed rape attempt, police said, adding that the victim's body was exhumed from his house.

The accused, identified as Harendra, was arrested from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.

The body of the 12-year-old girl was exhumed from a pit in his house on Tuesday, days after it was buried.

Lucknow, Mar 2 (PTI) A 50-year-old man was allegedly shot dead in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district by an accused out on bail in a case of molestation lodged in 2018 against the victim's daughter, police said on Tuesday.

Shahjahanpur (UP) Mar 1 (PTI) A woman was killed after her son thrashed her with a stick following a domestic dispute here on Monday, police said.

The accused Dinesh, hailing from Ping Rampur village falling under the Roja police station area here is a habitual drunkard and has been taken into custody, they said.

On Monday morning he consumed liquor and had an argument with his brother's wife, Superintendent of Police (city) Sanjay Kumar said.