Rohit K Singh is a Principal Correspondent. He writes on crime, police and social issues
Articles by Rohit Kumar Singh
Goraknath temple attack: STF, IB visit accused’s house in Navi Mumbai
On Tuesday, the IB visited Taj Heights Apartment in sector 50 in Seawoods Darave, also in Navi Mumbai, which was purchased by Abbasi’s father, the officials added. NRI Coastal police (local) also visited the flat and collected CCTV footage of the last few days.
Published on Apr 06, 2022 07:34 AM IST
UP CM holds road show in Lucknow’s Telibagh, says BJP will be back to power
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath held a road show in Telibagh area of the state capital on Sunday evening
Published on Feb 20, 2022 11:38 PM IST
Rohit Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Police take minister’s son to site of Lakhimpur violence
The investigators recreated the scene by placing mannequins as per the information collected by eyewitnesses before making three four-wheelers run on the narrow road of Banbirpur village, where the four farmers were allegedly mowed down, leading to the violence killing four others.
Updated on Oct 15, 2021 04:52 AM IST
Rohit Kumar SinghDeokant Pandey, Hindustan Times, Lakhimpur Kheri
Lakhimpur violence: Two more arrested, bail plea of Ashish Mishra rejected
Former Union minister late Akhilesh Das’s nephew Ankit Das and his private gunner Latif alias Kale were arrested on Wednesday, in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case while the main accused and junior home minister Ajay Mishra’s son, Ashish Mishra was denied bail by a court
Updated on Oct 14, 2021 02:58 AM IST
PTI | Rohit Kumar Singh, Hindustan Times, Lucknow
2 arrested in Lakhimpur violence case, summons sent to Mishra’s son: UP Police
The Lakhimpur police pasted a notice at the Union minister’s residence in Shahpura Kothi locality in Lakhimpur city, asking his son Ashish Mishra to appear at the crime branch office in reserve police lines at 10 am on Friday
Updated on Oct 08, 2021 03:20 AM IST
Rohit Kumar Singh, Hindustan Times, Lucknow
On SC prod, minister’s son called by UP police
UP Police summoned Ashish Mishra for questioning at 10am on Friday, and pasted a notice outside Ajay Mishra’s house in Lakhimpur. The notice said Ashish Mishra must appear in person.
Updated on Oct 08, 2021 01:35 AM IST
Police begin Probe as fresh video surfaces
The development came on a day a new video surfaced and was put out by Opposition politicians. The farmers blame Union minister of state for home Ajay Kumar Mishra Teni and his son Ashish, who deny the charges.
Published on Oct 07, 2021 05:11 AM IST
Rohit Kumar Singh, Hindustan Times, Lucknow
Kanwar controversy: In UP, apprehension over yatra go-ahead
The yatra -- where Shiva devotees fetch water from the Ganga to their village shrines – will begin from July 25 despite Uttarakhand, which hosts the yatra’s destination, Haridwar, scrapping the event over fears of a surge in Covid infections.
Updated on Jul 15, 2021 02:12 AM IST
Ghaziabad assault: FIR names Twitter amid conflicting narratives of attack
HT has seen a copy of the FIR, which also names journalists Rana Ayyub and Saba Naqvi; co-founder of fact-checking website AltNews, Mohammed Zubair; and Congress leaders Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani and Dr Shama Mohammad.
Updated on Jun 17, 2021 04:30 AM IST
Gangster shoots 2 including Mukhtar Ansari aide in UP jail, is killed by cops
Director general UP prison Anand Kumar said there had been lapses. Later, Chitrakoot jail superintendent SP Tripathi and jailer Mahendra Pal were suspended for lapses in jail security.
Updated on May 14, 2021 10:47 PM IST
Rohit Kumar Singh, Hindustan Times, Lucknow
Free medicines, consultation to UP prisoners’ kin at their doorstep
UP prisons headquarters spokesman Santosh Kumar Verma said four prisons in the state are now providing medical assistance at doorsteps to prisoners’ parents and family members, who are seriously ill or suffering from Covid-19 infection.
Published on May 03, 2021 01:15 PM IST
Cops in UP’s Deoria told not to use ‘indecent’ songs as caller tunes
- Circle police officers and police station in-charges have been asked to strictly comply with the instructions and counsel their subordinates to ensure no undignified caller tunes were used.
Published on Feb 26, 2021 02:31 PM IST
Rohit Kumar Singh | Edited by Abhinav Sahay, Lucknow
Bangladesh-based terror outfit helped PFI men arrange explosives for terror plot
- The two accused revealed that they visited Bangladesh a few months ago to seek Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen’s help for arranging explosives and firearms to trigger terror blasts in India
Published on Feb 19, 2021 07:27 AM IST
Rohit Kumar Singh | Edited by Abhinav Sahay, Lucknow
UP STF ‘foils’ terror attack plan with arrest of PFI men with explosives
- A top UP police official said a operation was launched to nab the accused after the STF came to know about PFI’s plan to conduct terror attacks in Uttar Pradesh and recruit educated youngsters.
Published on Feb 17, 2021 08:47 AM IST
Rohit Kumar Singh | Edited by Abhinav Sahay, Lucknow
2 Chinese nationals arrested in Uttar Pradesh for alleged money laundering
The two accused were arrested from their hideout in Gautam Buddh Nagar. They were staying in India illegally for four-five months, said police.
Published on Jan 25, 2021 09:19 AM IST
UP child molester used new gadgets to lure victims: CBI
Ram Bhavan Singh, a suspended junior engineer in the state irrigation department posted in Chitrakoot , was arrested by CBI from Banda district on Monday.
Updated on Nov 19, 2020 07:35 AM IST
Lucknow/Kanpur | Rohit Kumar Singh and Haidar Naqvi
UP child molester used new gadgets to lure victims from poor families: CBI
Published on Nov 18, 2020 11:45 PM IST
Rohit Kumar Singh and Haidar Naqvi
Identify, deport illegal Bangladeshis and other foreigners: UP DGP
Published on Oct 01, 2019 06:00 PM IST
SUV hit and kill: ‘My son would’ve been alive had police acted on previous complaint’
Some SUV borne youths crushed the three friends riding a scooty, after chasing them for around 2 km under Indira Nagar police station limits, killing Pawan and Tushar and severely injuring Himanshu late on Wednesday night.
Updated on Aug 16, 2019 09:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Rohit Kumar Singh
Tension in Uttar Pradesh village after group clash
Published on Aug 13, 2019 06:01 PM IST
Rohit Kumar Singh, Lucknow
ED registers another case in UP mining scam
The FIRs were lodged on basis of the one lodged by CBI, which is investigating the mining scam in UP during the Samajwadi Party regime between 2012 and 2016.
Updated on Aug 04, 2019 10:03 PM IST
Lucknow | Rohit Kumar Singh
‘Security lapses, poor prison van condition helped inmates kill UP cops’
The incident took place when a police van carrying 24 jail inmates was returning to Moradabad after producing them in a court in Chandausi in Sambhal district.
Published on Jul 19, 2019 10:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Rohit Kumar Singh, Lucknow
CBI raids 21 places, including houses of ex-UP minister’s kin
The CBI’s Delhi unit had registered a first information report (FIR) on January 2 against 11 people, including 2008 batch Indian Administrative Officer B Chandrakala and Samajwadi Party MLC Ramesh Kumar Mishra in connection with alleged illegal mining case.
Updated on Jun 13, 2019 08:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Rohit Kumar Singh
Barabanki hooch deaths: Key accused reveal alleged nexus involving excise officials
An official said the police have also found several items used in manufacturing of spurious liquor from another shop in Raniganj which was taken on rent by the key accused Daanveer Singh.
Updated on May 30, 2019 11:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Rohit Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Barabanki hooch deaths | ‘Raids last month gave clues but no follow-up led to tragedy’: Sources
Sources said both the departments did no follow-up on arrested persons’ claim that spurious liquor was also being sold in branded country-made liquor bottles at shops authorised by the excise department.
Published on May 29, 2019 01:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Rohit Kumar Singh, Lucknow
How Phantom and Honey traced killer of kidnapped boy in 25 minutes!
After tracing the killer, the duo also managed to locate the axe used for the murder, and the mobile phone used for making the ransom call — all within no time.
Published on Mar 29, 2019 12:29 AM IST
Lucknow | Rohit Kumar Singh
Uttar Pradesh ADG suspended after interview row
The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday confirmed the suspension of a 1992-batch Indian Police Service officer of Additional Director General rank, Jasvir Singh, for bemoaning the death of his career for taking on politicians, in an interview to the Huffington Post.
Published on Feb 19, 2019 11:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Rohit Kumar Singh
12-year-old girl puts father’s pistol to her head, accidentally pulls trigger
A 12-year-old girl in Lucknow put her father’s pistol to her head while playing with it and accidentally pulled the trigger. She died during treatment in a hospital.
Updated on Feb 01, 2019 09:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Rohit Kumar Singh
UP Police constable exam: 13 held from Lucknow, Mathura, Agra and Firozabad for rigging, using unfair means
UP Police constable exam: The UP Special Task Force (STF) busted an exam-rigging racket and a gang of fraudsters after arrest of three people each from Mathura and Agra on Sunday during the recruitment test for around 49,000 posts of constables of civil and armed police.
Updated on Jan 27, 2019 08:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow/Agra | Rohit Kumar Singh/Hemendra Chaturved
Constable frames Dalit brothers to get his kin acquitted in Rae Bareli
Probe revealed that the brothers were falsely implicated by a constable posted at Reserve Police Lines in Allahabad in connivance with his woman friend who had registered gang rape case against the brothers in Rae Bareli’s Unchahar police station
Published on Jan 10, 2019 07:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Rohit Kumar Singh, Lucknow
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