Within hours of the Supreme Court rejecting their plea for summoning 14 “crucial witnesses” dropped by the CBI in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case, Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on Monday moved an application before the trial court seeking a week’s adjournment to enable them to move the Allahabad High Court.
At least nine Lucknow crime branch policemen were suspended and 21 others sent to the police lines for allegedly trying to extort
Rs. 20 lakh from a city paan masala trader during a late Sunday night raid.
HT reports.
Ram Kali, 107, Uttar Pradesh's oldest prisoner, died late Sunday at the Bulandshahr jail, 403 km from in Lucknow, police said.
At a tender age of four, Rani (name changed) has been raped, brutalized and then faced the cruelty of a few guardians of good health called doctors. She is now battling for her life.
HT reports.
Uttar Pradesh irrigation minister Shivpal Singh Yadav today turned down an invitation to him and his ministry officials from the US' Johns Hopkins University.
The UP government's plea to withdraw case against two alleged HuJI operatives in connection with seizure of explosives in Barabanki after the 2007 Gorakhpur blasts was today rejected by a local court.
A 21-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped today in a moving van by four youths, who later dumped her in district hospital here and escaped.
The Supreme Court on thursday issued anotice to the Centre and Archaeological Survey of India seeking their responses to Uttar Pradesh government's plea for its permission for the beautification of areas near the Taj Mahal.
A court in Ghaziabad on Wednesday rejected the plea of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar for 10-day adjournment for recording their statements in connection with the murder trial of their daughter Aarushi and domestic servant Hemraj.
An undergraduate dalit girl student allegedly attempted suicide after her parents failed to deposit her college fees at Athai village, police said today.
The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court today stayed the contempt proceedings pending before the bench of justice Satish Chandra against the principal secretary (home) for the non-compliance of the court order in connection with security to to former Bahujan Samaj Party minister Ramvir Upadhayay.
Uttar Pradesh principal secretary (home) RM Shrivastav was taken into custody by the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court around 10.30am today for not complying with its order to provide security to a former minister.
Ajay Singh, a close aide of arrested gangster Brijesh Singh, and his wife Meera were shot at by eight motor cycle-borne assailants - reportedly of a rival gang - at Taktakpur area when they were returning home in their SUV late on Saturday evening. Pawan Dixit reports.
A group of about 1,000 people resorted to violence in Loni area after a father-son duo was run over by a truck near the Delhi-Ghaziabad border on Saturday morning.
A maha panchayat in Agra district has called for the boycott of a family of a man who allegedly raped and murdered an eight-year-old girl. The panchayat ordered that the rapist's family should not be given irrigation water or provided tractors.