Uttar Pradesh

Ghaziabad, April 24 (PTI) Software engineer Sumit Kumar, who allegedly killed his wife and three children here last week, has been arrested from Karnataka, police said Wednesday.

Ghaziabad Police arrested Kumar with the help of Udipi Police on Tuesday night. Three teams were deputed to nab him.

On the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, Kumar allegedly served sedative-laced drinks to his wife Anshu Bala (32), son Prathimesh (5), daughter Akriti and son Arav (twins aged 4 years) and then slit their throats, police had said.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Apr 24 (PTI) A police sub-inspector (SI) in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district was suspended allegedly for bigamy, a senior official said Wednesday.

The SI, Lavik Tyagi, posted at Thana Bhawan, was suspended Tuesday, the official said.

According to SP Ajay Kumar Pandey, the action was taken after Tyagi's second wife submitted a complaint in this regard.

The SI had married her around five years ago and also has a child from his second marriage, Pandey said.

Kanpur: Cubs intact but medical help ahead for survival. All the three cubs of leopard are getting care at Kanpur zoo since its arrival here. However, the Chief Conservator of Forest Sunil Pandey has directed the zoo director to be more careful towards those newly brought cubs. 

The cubs were recovered from interiors of Mordabad district and the forest department officials thought it suitable to keep the little cubs at the famous Allen Forest zoo here. 

Lucknow, Apr 23 (PTI) Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Tuesday alleged that EVMs were "malfunctioning or voting for the BJP" across the country and termed it a "criminal negligence".

"EVMs across India malfunctioning or voting for the BJP. DMs say poll officials untrained to operate EVMs. 350+ being replaced. This is criminal negligence for a polling exercise that costs Rs 50,000 crs.

"Should we believe DMs @ECISVEEP, or is something far more sinister afoot?" Yadav said in a tweet tagging the Election Commission.

Kanpur: Addressing a public meeting at Halim College here on Monday, Nasimuddin Siddiqui said if the Muslims should unite the Bhartiya Janta Party would not be able  to win a seat at the Ward level. 

He was speaking in support of the party's candidate Sri Prakash Jaiswal contesting election from Kanpur seat. He cautioned the gathering about the SP-BSP alliance which had formed the govt previously with the support of the BJP. In such a case they would not bring any benefit to the Muslims. 

Exhorting the gathering he made it clear that this alliance was not reliable. 

Muzaffarnagar, April 22 (PTI) A debt-ridden farmer allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in a village in Shamli district, police said Monday.

Rajender, 50, had taken a loan from a cooperative society and was finding it difficult to repay it, according to village head Bijender Kumar.

Rajender consumed poison yesterday and was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead. The body has been sent for postmortem, police added.

Ballia (UP), Apr 21 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Minister and Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar attacked the BJP leadership on Sunday, saying it had been captured by "Gujarati people".

He challenged the party to sack him as minister. "The BJP has not remained Atal-ji's party. It has been captured by Gujarati people. I will not resign as minister now. Let the BJP sack me," Rajbhar told reporters here.

Muzaffarnagar, April 22 (PTI) Nearly a week after three bodies were fished out of the Ganga canal here, police have found that the trio was murdered and their bodies thrown in the water body.

The three were found dead on April 17 and police had said that they died after their car plunged into the canal.

However, later investigation found that the three were murdered and their bodies thrown in the canal, SHO, Harsharan Sharma said Monday.

The three were identified as Ravi, Pradeep and Akshay.

Muzaffarnagar, Apr 21 (PTI) A 23-year-old woman was allegedly kidnapped and raped by four men here, police said Sunday.

The incident took place on Saturday in Jhaberpur village which comes under the jurisdiction of Purkazi police station.

According to a complaint lodged by the woman's family, she was kidnapped by the four men in a car who took her to a nearby sugarcane field and raped her, said SSP Virender Singh.

The accused had also recorded the act, he said, adding that a probe into the matter was underway.

Kanpur: Model booths will not be decorated with balloons. This is because of the balloon being symbol of one independent candidate contesting from Kanpur seat. A decision to this effect has been taken by the Election Commission as it becomes violation of the code of conduct. 

As the voting on this seat is to take place on April 29, there will be erected model booths in the city areas. Decorations will be done without using balloons. In the last elections the use of balloons was not prohibited. So the model booths had been decorated with balloons.