Lucknow: In the biggest reshuffle till date on a single day, the Uttar Pradesh government Tuesday transferred a whopping 20,324 constables. Officials said the transfers were ordered following a government order of March 20 wherein the new Samajwadi Party government had lifted the ban on posting of constables in areas adjoining their home town. Following the policy reversal, the Uttar Pradesh Police had set rolling a phased option scheme for...
08:44 AM, May 16, 2012
Lucknow: There is major trouble brewing for former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati as the Akhilesh Yadav government has decided to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe corruption in the construction of parks in the state. The Uttar Pradesh police will form an SIT to investigate the scam in the building of Ambedkar parks in Lucknow and Noida. The police on Monday also lodged an FIR against...
09:34 PM, May 14, 2012
Lucknow: Saharanpur range DIG Satish Kumar Mathur, who had on Wednesday sparked a controversy by advocating honour killing, was transferred by the authorities on Thursday. This came hours after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said he would take action against Mathur if the police officer had supported honour killing. "If that is the statement then that statement is wrong. If an official holds such high post and if that...
08:02 PM, May 10, 2012
Bijnor: It has been 45 days since the Samajwadi Party came to power in Uttar Pradesh and yet another instance of hooliganism by party workers is being reported. Some Samajwadi Party (SP) workers created a ruckus in a police station in Bijnor district and reportedly beat up some policemen. The ruckus was created by the party workers in connection with a case involving the minority community. A local SP leader...
09:42 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Lucknow: In a major decision, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday did away with the unique initiative of his predecessor Mayawati wherein deputy inspector generals of police (DIGs) were posted in the five biggest cities of the state, known as the KAVAL cities. The decision, expected from the day of the new government's swearing in, was approved on Monday night after which the DIG regime was abolished in...
11:42 PM, Mar 19, 2012
New Delhi: In poll-bound Lucknow, one person has been arrested after a huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered in the Krishna nagar area. Police say that the consignment was coming from Fatehpur. Huge numbers of pistols, carbines, ammunition and country-made pistols have been recovered. The first phase of UP polls takes place on February 8. ...
10:46 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Dhankaur: The Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday registered an FIR against more than a dozen police personnel on charges of raping a woman in Bhatta-Parsaul. The FIR was registered in Dhankaur police station. This comes soon after the Allahabad High Court rejected a petition by the police which requested for a stay on a lower court's order. The Chief Judicial Magistrate court of Greater Noida had on October 12 ordered...
08:48 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Lucknow: A day after IBN7 journalists Shalabh Mani Tripathi and Manoj Ranjan Tripathi, who had been closely tracking the YS Sachan story, were roughed up by Additional Superintendent of Police BP Ashok and Circle officer Anup Kumar, an FIR was registered against them and the police officers were suspended. Shalabh Mani Tripathi had been taken to the Hazratganj Police Station, and was released after hundreds of media persons from UP...
10:54 PM, Jun 27, 2011
New Delhi: Congress tonight dubbed as "autocratic" the arrest of its leader Rahul Gandhi, who joined the farmers anti-land acquisition agitation near Greater Noida, and said Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh "is digging its own grave" by taking such action. Senior party leader and Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said the arrest of Rahul Gandhi was an "autocratic action and I condemn this". "Arrest is not the answer. Rahul Gandhi...
12:01 AM, May 12, 2011
New Delhi: It was on April 11, 2011, that Sonu Sinha, who claims she is a sportswoman was thrown off a moving train in UP after she said she was trying to fight off chain snatchers. While the railways and the railway police dispute her version of the incident, 25-year-old Sonu lost her leg which got crushed by a moving train. She also lost a possible career in sports. For...
01:38 PM, May 05, 2011
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The closure report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Aarushi murder case should not be the end of the matter. Its admission ...
03:05 PM, Dec 31, 2010
Lucknow: A bar dance performance at a state health center in Lucknow caused an uproar. The police reportedly knew about details of the function ahead despite the ban. Officers of the state community health centre were allegedly inebriated and engaged in inappropriate behaviour with bar dancers during a welfare ceremony at the health centre itself. And all this happened under the full notification of state police officials. Meanwhile the DG...
07:51 AM, Dec 23, 2010
Varanasi: The one-and-a-half-year-old girl, who was found at Shitla Ghat in Varanasi after the blast on December 7, has been identified by police and her residence located, but her parents cannot be traced. Deputy District Magistrate Atal Kumar Rai told reporters on Sunday that after publishing the child's picture in various newspapers and showing it on news channels, it was found that she is the daughter of one Gita and...
11:43 PM, Dec 12, 2010
Lucknow: Three forensic teams trying to get to the root of the Varanasi terror attack that killed two people still don't know what explosives were used. The deafening blast at Shitla Ghat on the Ganga banks during the routine evening 'arti' on December 7 claimed two lives and left about 30 injured. Besides the first team of forensic experts airlifted from Agra on December 7 night to study the nature...
09:03 PM, Dec 12, 2010
Kanpur: At least 10 people were injured when police resorted to baton charge after locals in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district Wednesday staged demonstrations demanding closure of a school where one student Divya recently died after alleged sexual assault. Divya's family along with other protesters are demanding the arrest of the school manager's son Piyush Verma who they alleged raped 12-year-old Divya, a Class Six student on 27th of September. Divya,...
05:38 PM, Oct 13, 2010
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