Uttar Pradesh

Noida (UP), Jul 16 (PTI) The daughter of a former deputy inspector general of police was allegedly molested on Tuesday near her college in Greater Noida by a man, who has been arrested, officials said.

The incident took place outside a hotel management college under Beta 2 police station limits in the afternoon, they said.

The girl, who is pursuing a course in hotel management from the college, was molested by the accused. She soon called up the police on Dial 100 and a police response vehicle (PRV) reached the spot immediately, a police spokesperson said.

New Delhi, Jul 17 (PTI) The CBI on Wednesday searched the premises of former Samajwadi Party MP Ateeq Ahmad and others in Allahabad and Lucknow in a case related to the abduction and assault of a businessman, officials here said.

The searches are being conducted at six places in the two Uttar Pradesh cities, they said, adding that details would be given later.

The CBI last month registered a case against Ahmad for allegedly assaulting and abducting real estate dealer Mohit Jaiswal in December 2018 while he was in Deoria Jail.

KANPUR: In spite of lowering the popularity graph of the grand old Congress party, the workers  are still not disheartened.

The party's senior leader visited New Delhi but he failed to meet apex level leaders. Some other ex-office-bearers of the City Congress Committee are also making up their minds to take a round of the capital.

They know that first the AICC and then the PCC would be reconstituted. But they do not want to lose opportunity of visiting at the party's head office. 

15 July 2019; GANASHAKTI: The daughter of a BJP MLA from Uttar Pradesh, who had moved the Allahabad High Court last week to seek police protection, citing threat to her life from her father after marrying a man outside her caste, appeared in court on Monday morning, amid kidnapping rumours and high drama.

KANPUR: 'Neither there will be nine maunds of oil nor Radha will dance--- a famous proverb on the slackness of Jal Nigam. The department could not arrange 100 mts long pipe for the pumping station to begin its operation. 

The pumping station was built in the year 2009 under the Jawahar Lal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission at the Jalkal headquarters in Benjhabar here. This station was established for water supply of 25 thousand crore litres but could not be started after a decade. 

Allahabad, Jul 15 (PTI) Sakshi Mishra, who claimed she and her husband Ajitesh Kumar were feeling threatened by her MLA father Rajesh Mishra for marrying outside caste, were granted protection by the Allahabad High Court on Monday.

Justice Siddharth Verma granted protection to Sakshi and Ajitesh who had asked for security contending that there is a threat to their life from Mishra who is unhappy with the marriage as Shakshi is a Brahmin and Ajitesh a Dalit by caste.

KANPUR: For the past several long years Panki Industrial Area faces civic problems due to apathy of the officers concerned. It is divided into five respective sites with as many as 1270 industries. When there exists no proper arrangement for disposal of Industrial wastes, this area remains afflicted with bad roads, water-logging and garbage.

There has not been deployed safai workers in the area. Though the municipal corporation collects big amounts of money in the name of house tax annually. According to the rule sixty percent of this amount has to be spent on this area.

Kanpur: The UP minister's review meeting was disrupted owing to the discontent of the BJP Corporator. They were raising as their annoyance at the officers' apathy towards the problems being faced by the residents of the Wards they represent. 

Noida (UP), Jul 12 (PTI) Two persons have been arrested for allegedly duping people by fraudulently selling government land to them claiming those to be private property, police officials said here Friday.

The two accused were members of a gang which had in April two plots of land belonging to the Noida Authority to individual buyers in Ghaziabad and Hapur districts, they said.

Lucknow, Jul 13 (PTI) Welcoming the Uttar Pradesh Law Commission-drafted Bill against lynching, BSP supremo Mayawati Saturday pitched for a stringent, pan-India legislation to arrest the spread of this "dreadful disease".

In a statement issued by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) here, Mayawati said, "Mob lynching has emerged as a dreadful disease (bhayanak bimari) across the country, and the loss of lives in it is a matter of serious concern."