Uttar Pradesh

Pratapgarh (UP), Sep 4 (PTI) A 14 year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped while returning home from school and gangraped by two persons, police said here on Wednesday.

The victim, a student of Class IX, was returning home when she was given lift by one Narendra Yadav on the pretext of dropping her at her home but instead taken to Allahabad, where she was kept hostage for two days, ASP (West) Dinesh Dubey said.

Kanpur: Teacher's Day comes again. The students feel relaxed at this day as one more holiday is added in the list. Away from the routine class, they feel quite at ease. 

It is, of course, a day to see the teacher's contribution in shaping a student's life. 

Prior to September 5, those students who profess to attend the school on this very day prefers to sleep in the morning so as to avoid attending the school. This is because of their overburdened with the homework.

Lucknow, Sep 3 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission on Tuesday approved up to 12 per cent hike in power tariff for various categories of power consumers to make up for increased expenditure of state distribution utilities.

The commission, however, also abolished the regulatory surcharge of 4.8 per cent for state discoms, giving relief to customers from a sharp increase.

The new tariffs will come into effect from the date to be notified by the government, an official release said.

Baghpat (UP), Sep 4 (PTI) A class 3 student was allegedly raped by three brothers, all minors, at a primary school in a village here, police said on Wednesday.

The girl was raped by a 13-year-old student and his two brothers aged 10 and 11 respectively in the bathroom of the government primary school on August 16. All the three are students of the same school and study in class 5, 7 and 8 respectively.

Police have detained the three, who will be produced in a juvenile court, here on Wednesday, police said.

Raebareli (UP), Sep 4 (PTI) In a suspected case of honour killing, a woman was killed by her cousin for marring a man of other caste eight years ago, police said on Wednesday.

The accused Pankaj was arrested and further probe was on, they said.

The incident took place on Monday evening in Ichhwapur Garhi village in Salon area when Anju (23) was going to fields with other women and her cousin Pankaj repeatedly hit her with a cricket bat, killing her on the spot, police said.

Lucknow, Sep 3 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government constituted a special investigation team (SIT) on Tuesday to probe the harassment charges levelled by a Shahjahanpur woman against former Union minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand.

The SIT, which was constituted on a Supreme Court order, will be headed by an inspector general-rank police officer and will to look into the two cross FIRs filed in the case, according to the state home department.

Ayodhya, Sep 3 (PTI) Iqbal Ansari, one of the main litigants in the Babri Masjid dispute, was on Tuesday allegedly physically assaulted at his house here by two people who, he claimed, threatened to kill him if he did not withdraw the case.

His security personnel intervened and saved him from the attackers who were detained by police.

Ansari told PTI that on Tuesday afternoon, a man and a woman reached his residence.

Lucknow, Sep 3 (PTI) Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday alleged that injustice was being meted out to senior party leader Azam Khan and said a protest will be launched by party workers against it.

Khan is facing land grab allegations. Authorities have claimed that the gate of the Mohammad Ali Jauhar University is allegedly being built on government land.

Jalaun (UP), Sep 3 (PTI) A teenage Dalit girl was raped and murdered allegedly by her neighbour and the body was found with her eyes gouged out here, police said on Tuesday.

The accused Ranjit Ahirwar has been arrested, Superintendent of Police Satish Kumar said.

The 17-year-old girl went missing on August 31 and her body with eyes gouged out was found the next day, police said, adding the postmortem confirmed rape.

Ballia, Sep 1 (PTI) An 18-year-old girl was allegedly raped by three youths here, police said on Sunday.

Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjay Yadav said the incident took place on Friday night.

On the complaint of the girl, a case has been registered against the three.