Uttar Pradesh

Kanpur: Country's first sugar refinery equipped with the modern-day high technique will start functioning in the city's acclaimed National Sugar Institute from the next year. The work on putting up its building has also been initiated.

Two kinds of techniques will be brought into use for refining the sugar. First, there is a process of ion exchange resins &  deep bed filter and secondly, there will be the use of active carbon and membrane filtration.

Muzaffarnagar, Oct 14 (PTI) A man was arrested for allegedly attempting to rape his 13-year-old daughter in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said on Monday.

The 33-year-old father made an attempt to rape the minor while she was asleep. He also beat up his two sons for opposing him, they said.

According to Station House Officer Subhash Singh Rathore, police registered a case against the father and arrested him.

Muzaffarnagar, Oct 14 (PTI) A woman died of burns after being set on fire by her husband in Khatoli town here, police said on Monday.

The victim-- Anuradha and her husband Dinesh Singh had an argument over a family dispute, they said.

Singh, a sugar mill employee, lost his temper and poured kerosene over his wife before setting her on fire, police said, adding that he too sustained burn injuries.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Oct 14 (PTI) A man was arrested for allegedly strangling a 14-year-old girl to death after she resisted his rape attempt in a village of neighbouring Shamli district, police said on Monday.

The accused was identified as Anuj (26), they said.

Additional Superintendent of Police Rajesh Shrivastava told newsmen here that during interrogation, Anuj confessed to the killing.

Muzaffarnagar, Oct 14 (PTI) Three men were booked and one of them was arrested for allegedly attempting to rape a 22-year-old woman and filming the act in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said on Monday.

The alleged rape attempt took place on Sunday and one of the accused was arrested the same day, they said.

Banda, Oct 13 (PTI) A 55-year-old debt-ridden farmer allegedly committed suicide in Uttar Pradesh's Mahoba district after his crops were damaged due to excessive rains, an official said on Sunday.

Sureshchandra Tiwari consumed a poisonous substance in his agricultural field in Kulpahar area on Saturday, Tehsildar Subodhmani Sharma said.

Tiwari was rushed to a primary health centre, where he was declared dead, the official said.

Barabanki, Oct 13 (PTI) A local court here sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a three-year-old girl.

The court also imposed Rs 1 lakh fine on him.

Assistant Government Advocate Shekhar Verma said on Sunday that Sanjay Dom-- a resident of Tikaitnagar Police Station area-- lured the girl and took her towards an old hospital where he raped her on February 23, 2015.

Banda, Oct 12 (PTI) Two people were killed when the motorcycle they were riding hit some stray cows here, police said on Saturday.

Chunbadi Prajapati (35) and his brother-in-law Jalkadeen (38) were returning from a local market when the accident occurred at Khaurarha bypass on Friday evening, Station House Officer of Mataundh Police Station Shail Kumar Singh said.

"Both the motorcyclists fell on the road and sustained serious injuries. They were rushed to the hospital, where the doctors declared them dead," he said.

Haridwar, Oct 10 (PTI) Apex body of ascetics Akhil Bhartiya Akhara Parishad came out in support of former Union minister Chinmayanand on Thursday saying he had been framed in the sexual harassment case.

At a meeting of the parishad which began on Thursday to elect its working committee, Mahanth Narendra Giri, its president, said the parishad supports Chinmayanand.

"Sexual harassment charges against Chinmayanand are false. It is a conspiracy. The parishad supports him," he said.

Jhansi (UP), Oct 10 (PTI) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav slammed the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, saying there is not "Ram Raj" but "Nathuram Raj" in the state, a day after he visited the family of a youth killed in a police encounter over alleged illegal sand mining.

"Besides mob lynching, now there is also police lynching which can be seen here," the SP chief told newspersons.