Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday withdrew the case aggainst Tariq Qasmi, prime accused in the Gorakhpur bomb blasts of May 22, 2007 which left six people, including a woman, injured. The move followed a recommendation from the district administration to the state home department that the case against Qasmi, resident of Azamgarh, be withdrawn.
Following this, the home department on late Wednesday issued orders for the withdrawing the cases against the accused. Qasmi was picked up by the Special Task Force (STF) after he was found to be in touch with HuJi activists. This is the first case of terror charges being withdrawn against any one since the Akhilesh Yadav government was sworn in 2012.
The Samajwadi Party (SP), from time to time, has been assuring the minority community that "false charges" slapped on "innocent Muslims" would be withdrawn.
Home Secretary Sarvesh Mishra said the district magistrate of Gorakhpur has been directed to file an affidavit in the concerned court, informing it of the government decision....
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04:49 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Ashok Prasad on Sunday said the ongoing National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe would establish whether Liaqat Shah "is a terrorist or innocent". Talking to media persons on the sidelines of a police function here, the DGP said, "The NIA is probing the arrest of Liaqat Shah by Delhi Police. It will establish if he is a terrorist or innocent." Shah, 47,...
05:20 AM, Apr 01, 2013
The Delhi Police has arrested a suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist from Gorakhpur. Sources say he has revealed that there were plans of terror strikes on the occasion of Holi. ...
09:18 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Haryana's first atomic power plant will be set up in an area of 1,503 acres in Fatehabad district. The work for erecting a barbed wire fencing around the project site at Gorakhpur started on Monday, an official spokesman said. ...
04:47 PM, Feb 04, 2013
ne person was killed and two others were injured after they were shot at by robbers for resisting their attempt to loot passengers on a moving train in Champaran district. About eight robbers, who boarded the Gorakhpur-Sonepur passenger train at Sugauli station, fired nine rounds on the passengers injuring three of them, one of whom died later in a hospital, official sources said. ...
07:12 PM, Jan 18, 2013
New Delhi: Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared Rs 4,000-crore joint action plan for tackling Japanese Encephalitis. CNN-IBN had reported how over 400 people died of encephalitis this year. The GoM had in November last year made certain recommendations for tackling the deadly virus which has affected over 6,300 persons across the country till September. The authorities have so far not been able to identify the virus in the worst affected...
06:36 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Gorakhpur: Four more children succumbed to encephalitis in Gorakhpur, taking the death toll in the viral disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh to 421 in 2012. The deceased hailed from Kushinagar, Mahrajganj and Sant Kabir Nagar districts, officials said on Saturday. As many as 41 patients suffering from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome have been admitted to BRD Medical College Hospital here and other government hospitals of Gorakhpur and Basti divisions in the...
04:53 PM, Oct 13, 2012
Gorakhpur: Over 400 children died in 2012 due to the encephalitis epidemic in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Finally, the government is waking up to the crisis. The Cabinet will meet on Thursday morning and the agenda will be implementation of prevention and control of the disease. There are major challenges for the government ahead. With children on ventilator support, desperate parents running out of hope and doctors fighting against all odds,...
10:45 AM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: After a sustained campaign by CNN-IBN, the government seems to have finally woken up to encephalitis. The Cabinet will take up the issue of prevention and control of Japanese encephalitis in a meeting on Thursday. So far, over 400 children have died across Uttar Pradesh due to this dreaded disease. The government has been a mute spectator with little being done to prevent or control it. CNN-IBN had...
04:21 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Gorakhpur: Seven more children died of encephalitis in the last 24 hours in Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College, Uttar Pradesh, taking the death toll to 372. CNN-IBN had learnt that nearly Rs 3350 crore was sanctioned by the government to battle the outbreak but with no improvement in the condition it seems the money never reached to those who needed it the most. After CNN-IBN highlighted the plight of the victims...
12:15 AM, Oct 07, 2012
The encephalitis death toll in Gorakhpur in on rise but the government help has not reached the people yet. ...
11:51 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Gorakhpur: The official toll of encephalitis deaths in Uttar Pradesh in 2012 has gone up to 400. However, if we factor in deaths that havent been reported, the figure will touch around 1000. The National Child Rights panel has finally taken note after CNN-IBN highlighted encephalitis deaths. But why is the government a mute spectator as children continue to die? CNN-IBN had met a five-year-old boy fighting for his life...
11:33 PM, Oct 04, 2012
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) member Vandana Prasad has said that children from the economically weaker sections are low on the priority list. She also said that good vaccines are available for encephalitis and they can ensure that immunisation is done. A day after CNN-IBN highlighted deaths due to encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has taken note of the disease ...
02:58 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Gorakhpur: Seven more children succumbed to encephalitis at the BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, taking the death toll due to the disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh to 390 in 2012. The deceased, who died on Wednesday, belonged to Gonda (1), Basti (1) Gorakhpur (1), Siddharthanagar (2), and Kushinagar (2), health officials said on Thursday. Additional Director (Health) Diwakar Prasad said 23 people suffering from encephalitis were admitted to BRD...
11:57 AM, Oct 04, 2012
New Delhi: A day after CNN-IBN highlighted deaths due to encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has taken note of the disease in Gorakhpur. NCPCR has summoned senior health officials of Uttar Pradesh. Over 350 children died of encephalitis in 2012 in Gorakhpur. In the encephalitis ward of Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College, three children die on an average everyday. While most of the children...
09:42 AM, Oct 04, 2012
Gorakhpur: In the last 33 years, around 50,000 people have died in eastern Uttar Pradesh due to encephalitis and it was only in 2011, when under media pressure, a Group of Minister sanctioned Rs 3,350 crore but with the deaths still continuing, it seems the money never reached to those who needed it. In the encephalitis ward of Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College, three children die on an average everyday. In...
08:49 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Gorakpur: In an outbreak in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, Encephalitis has claimed lives of seven children in the past 24 hours. The death toll has climbed to 281 in 2012 alone. Over 1400 cases have been reported in a single hospital in 2012. Infants and toddlers are most vulnerable to the disease and the doctors say almost every one in three cases is fatal. ...
01:11 PM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: Encephalitis is back again to haunt the children of eastern Uttar Pradesh as 21 deaths have been reported in the past three days itself from four district hospitals in and around Gorakhpur. The maximum number of deaths are being reported from the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur. So far, 241 encephalitis deaths have been reported since the beginning of the year. Encephalitis is an air and water-borne viral...
03:30 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Gorakhpur: Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh is battling a sudden rise in diarrhoea cases. Doctors say the disease has already claimed five lives in the city and 10 new cases are being reported everyday. Locals have blamed the outbreak on contaminated water and uncleared garbage. ...
01:39 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Gorakhpur: Two children succumbed to encephalitis at the BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, taking the death toll in the disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh this year to 159. The children, who hailed from Gorakhpur and Kushinagar districts, died at the hospital on Monday, health officials said on Tuesday. A total of 838 encephalitis patients were admitted to different government hospitals of Gorakhpur and Basti division this year of which...
11:24 AM, Aug 07, 2012
