New Delhi: There's trouble for Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Jugal Kishore as a minor has alleged that she was allegedly raped by his domestic help in his house in Lakhimpur Kheri. The suspect has been arrested but Kishore has denied that incident took place in his house or that the accused works for him. Kishore has called it a conspiracy hatched by the ruling Samajwadi party. ...
07:46 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Lucknow: The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) Scheme has been facing more murk in Uttar Pradesh. The body of a clerk from the health department Mahendra Sharma was found at a public health centre in Lakhimpur Kheri. The family of Sharma, who was missing since February 7, has alleged that he was under pressure from the CMO to sign files and was suspended after he refused. The family now wants...
02:17 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: Protestors in Assam have taken to the streets to block trucks carrying turbines for the Subansiri Dam site, the largest hydro-power project in India. Wednesday evening's violence in upper Assam's Sinitpur and Lakhimpur was not unexpected. But the police and paramilitary forces lathi charged, fired blanks in the air and then allegedly fired on protestors, leaving hundreds injured. Undeterred, people protesting against the building of the dam on...
09:22 AM, Dec 02, 2011
Lakhimpur: Two persons were injured on Friday when a hand-made bomb buried in the compound of a house exploded at Sarmoti in upper Assam's Lakhimpur district. The bomb was found abandoned by a little boy about three days ago and brought it home where the adults kept it inside an underground dustbin, the police said. The bomb went off under pressure around 7.30 am causing minor injuries on two tenants...
09:39 AM, Oct 14, 2011
Lucknow: A day after the apex court ordered a CBI inquiry into alleged rape of a girl by Banda BSP MLA, Mayawati government on Tuesday recommended handing over to the agency the sensational Lakhimpur case in which body of a 14-year-old girl was found hanging from a tree in a police station. The two cases had caused a major embarrassment to Mayawati Government with the Opposition attacking it on the...
05:31 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Guwahati: Nearly two lakh persons have been affected by the first wave of flood which has hit Assam's twin districts of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji. Four people have so far lost their lives in the flood that has inundated nearly 200 villages in the worst affected Jonai sub division, official sources said on Sunday. The district administrations of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji have pressed into service motor boats for rescue and relief...
07:21 PM, Jul 17, 2011
New Delhi: A minor was allegedly beaten up and gangraped in front of the entire village in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday morning by men believed to be close to a former MP. She was punished because she was allegedly having an affair with her school teacher. The humiliation drove the victim - an 11th standard student girl to commit suicide. She left behind a suicide note. "They...
08:33 AM, Jul 16, 2011
Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court on Monday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to submit a reply on a PIL seeking a CBI probe into the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl inside police station premises in Lakhimpur district. The order was passed by a division bench of justices Abdul Mateen and Ashwini Kumar Singh which fixed July 8 as the next date of hearing. The bench directed the...
12:56 PM, Jul 04, 2011
Lucknow: The gunner of a circle officer was on Sunday arrested for the sensational killing of a girl whose body was found hanging in a police station in UP's Lakhimpur district, with authorities alleging that he took her life when she raised an alarm during a molestation bid. "Gunner of Circle officer Atiq Ahamad has been arrested by the CB-CID for his involvement killing a 14-year-old girl, whose body was...
08:06 PM, Jul 03, 2011
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday met the family of the 14-year-old girl found dead in a police station in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh. "We support the family's demand for a CBI probe in the incident," said Rahul after meeting them. The girls was strangulated to death after being allegedly gang-raped by cops posted at Nighasan police station in Lakhimpur Kheri district on June 10....
06:42 PM, Jun 29, 2011
New Delhi: Five days after the controversial murder of a minor girl in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati finally broke her silence on Wednesday promising stern action. Mayawati said, "What happened in Lakhimpur is regretful... We are taking strict action. The government is ready for a CBI probe if the family of the victim want it. However, I fear that if the CBI took over the case it...
09:25 PM, Jun 15, 2011
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday condemnned the murder of the teenager in Lakhimpur and accused the opposition parties of playing politics over the murder case. "Opposition parties should stop playing politics and help out in getting the real accused arrested," she said. Mayawati also attacked the Centre and said that the government is not interested in getting justice for the victim. "Centre has politicised these human...
11:41 AM, Jun 15, 2011
Lucknow: Under attack over the murder of a teenaged girl in a police station in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh charging various national commissions with behaving like political parties. National Commission for Women and National Human Rights Commission have voiced concern over the murder of the girl and NHRC has sent a fact-finding team to Lakhimpur Kheri....
06:35 PM, Jun 14, 2011
New Delhi: In more embarrassment for the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh, the mother of the minor who was found hanging inside a police station in Lakhimpur Kheri has now accused the police of trying to bribe her to stay quiet. She has alleged they are shielding their colleagues who allegedly raped and killed her daughter. "I won't rest until I get a report and the culprit is in front...
07:08 AM, Jun 14, 2011
New Delhi: Twelve hours after calling it a suicide, the second autopsy report conducted on the 14-year-old girl in Lakhimpur, has confirmed it was murder. The Police, however, have still not ruled out rape. The SP of the police station has been transferred and the doctors who conducted the first autopsy have been suspended. The girl's body was found hanging outside a police station in Lakhimpur in Uttar Pradesh. Her...
08:28 PM, Jun 13, 2011
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