India

Kanpur: A few villagers dancing to celebrate the BJP victory in just-concluded assembly elections were mercilessly assaulted by a group of people in Kanpur Dehat district.

Their folly as reported was that they were swaggering to the tunes of election campaign songs of the BJP.

What reports hinted was that the incident took place at Nyora Mastpur village.

A complaint has been filed at the Rasulabad police station of the district.

NEW DELHI, Mar 13 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 42,990,991 today, as 3,116 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.

Besides, 47 deaths from the pandemic since yesterday morning, took the total death toll to 515,850.

The figure came after several months, when the number of deaths from the pandemic fell below 50.

Bhubaneswar, Mar 12 (PTI) At least 22 people, including seven police personnel, were injured on Saturday when suspended BJD MLA Prasant Jagdev's vehicle allegedly ran over them at Banapur in Khurda district, police said.

The MLA from Chilika was also critically injured as he was roughed up by a mob after the vehicle mowed down a section of the crowd which had gathered outside the BDO Banapur's office while election for the block chairperson was underway, they said.

Agartala, Mar 12 (PTI) A woman allegedly beheaded her 50-year-old husband and kept the blood-soaked head in a plastic bag at the family's temple in Tripura's Khowai district in the wee hours of Saturday, a police officer said.

While Khowai Superintendent of Police Bhanupada Chakraborty said the reason behind the killing is not yet known, the couple's elder son said his mother has developed a psychological disorder recently and underwent treatment by a local occultist.

Nagpur, Mar 12 (PTI) A 27-year-old man allegedly killed one of his three daughters, a one-year-old, by burying her alive in a pit in an agricultural field in Washim district of Maharashtra following fight with his wife, police said on Saturday.

The accused Suresh Ghughe was arrested on Saturday, a day after the incident in Wadi-Wakad village in Risod tehsil.

Mathura, Mar 12 (PTI) Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal of the Allahabad High Court here on Saturday sought to drive home the malady of delayed justice, recalling an incident in which a man refused to take the compensation 25 years after the death of his son in a road accident and asked the court to keep the money.

Justice Bindal narrated the incident while inaugurating the holding of Lok Adalat here and said, Delayed relief often turns meaningless.

NEW DELHI, Mar 12 (NNN-PTI) – At least seven people were charred to death, after a major fire broke out in Delhi, early this morning, a senior Delhi Fire Services official confirmed.

According to the official, the fire broke out in as many as 60 huts, located near Gokalpur village, in north-east Delhi. Rescue and relief work is still going on, he added.

As many as 13 fire tenders were sent to douse the fire.

“Fire had spread to around 60 huts. So far, seven charred dead bodies have been recovered,” Delhi Fire Services chief, Atul Garg said, over the phone.

Lucknow, Mar 12 (PTI) The victory margin of 49 candidates was less than 5,000 votes in the recently-concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

According to the results announced on Thursday, 25 Samajwadi Party (SP) candidates were defeated by less than 5,000 votes while a similar fate awaited three nominees of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD).

The SP and the RLD contested the polls in an alliance.

Bareilly, Mar 12 (PTI) A man was arrested following an exchange of fire on Saturday in connection with the alleged rape of a six-year-old girl, police said here.

Senior Superintendent of Police Rohit Singh Sajwan said a case has been registered against the 22-year-old accused under the IPC and POCSO Act.

Police said on Friday the girl went to a stationery shop to buy a notepad at 2.30 pm.

When she did not return home, her grandmother started searching for her.

Srinagar, Mar 11 (PTI) An Army Cheetah helicopter on its way to pick up sick BSF personnel crashed near the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir's Gurez Sector on Friday, resulting in the killing of its pilot and injuries to the co-pilot, officials said.

The injured co-pilot has been rushed to a medical facility, they said, adding that his condition was stated to be critical.

The two pilots belonged to Army Aviation Corps and were of the rank of major.