Uttar Pradesh

Agra (UP), Nov 28 (PTI): A court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping his 11-year-old daughter.

The child was allegedly raped and her genitals burnt last year by her father, police said on Thursday.

The case was registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Indian Penal Code on a complaint by the girl's mother, who had been living apart from her husband.

Lucknow, Nov 28 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government will set up a tourist police station each in Gorakhpur and Varanasi for extending better facilities to national and international tourists and pilgrims and ensuring their safety, an official said on Thursday.

Principal Secretary, Home, Avnish Awasthi said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had directed the officials concerned to act promptly for setting up the new tourist police stations in accordance with the prescribed norms.

Ballia (UP), Nov 29 (PTI) A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly abducted and raped by five people for over a month in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district, police said on Friday.

The girl was abducted on October 16 and taken to Panipat in Haryana and allegedly raped, ASP Sanjay Yadav said.

The victim managed to escape and returned home on November 21. She narrated her ordeal to her family members after which her uncle lodged an FIR against five persons.

Bahraich (UP), Nov 28 (PTI) A man allegedly killed his six-year-old stepson, chopped his body and hid it in different locations in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district, police said on Thursday.

Farid alias Suraj Yadav was allegdly killed by Ram Sawre Yadav on November 19. Yadav disposed his body by chopping it into pieces and hiding it in separate locations at Bhainsia village in Risia area, Superintendent of Police Gaurav Grover said.

Noida (UP), Nov 28 (PTI) Forty-five people were arrested after a fake call centre, which allegedly duped people in the guise of popular shopping portals such as Flipkart and Myntra, was busted here on Thursday, the Noida police said.

The fake call centre, operating from Sector 6, was busted by a team of the Cyber Cell and Knowledge Park police station, a senior officer said.

Bareilly (UP), Nov 23 (PTI) Six persons have been arrested for being allegedly involved in the gang rape of two minor girls in a village under Bahedi police station area here, police said on Saturday.

The girls aged 17 and 14, both cousins, were returning home after visiting a doctor on November 17 when they were dragged to nearby fields and raped by five persons, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Dr Sansar Singh said.

The culprits also made a video of the incident and circulated it, he said.

Ghaziabad, Nov 23 (PTI) Members of Dr Ambedkar Mission here on Saturday burnt an effigy of Baba Ramdev for his alleged derogatory remarks against followers of the Dalit icon.

Led by their founder and national president Ashok Sant, the protesters submitted a memorandum addressed to the President to the district magistrate and demanded Ramdev's arrest.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Nov 23 (PTI) A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth in a sugarcane field at Bhikka Majra village in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said on Saturday.

According to Babri station house officer Nem Chand, the incident happened on Friday and police registered a case against Sikander Singh (21) after the victim's grandmother lodged a complaint.

Kanpur: Jajmau has two petrol pumps which help the residents to get their vehicles filled with petrol or diesel. But the consumers remain annoyed with the way the attendants weigh the quantity of petrol or diesel. The vehicle owners who flock the petrol pumps always face some problem. 

Etah (UP), Nov 22 (PTI) A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her father in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Etah district, police said on Friday.

The incident took place when the girl, living with her maternal grandparents, went to visit her father at his house to see her ailing grandmother on November 18, ASP Sanjay Kumar said.

According to the FIR filed by the victim's maternal grandfather, she told her mother about the incident after returning home.