The young woman had gone missing in 2020 and shortly afterwards, when a burnt and headless body was found, they identified it and claimed it as that of their missing kin but their claim got mired in procedural wrangles, including technicalities and ambiguous DNA reports.
While an investigation is on to ascertain the real intention of the three men, a departmental inquiry has also been ordered against cops who handed over the body without properly verifying the claimants’ documents.
IMD, the country’s nodal weather agency, has advised people to avoid travel during the morning and evening hours as visibility in some districts of the state will drop to zero metres. The season’s worst fog across swathes of north India led to a pile-up of at least 12 vehicles on the Delhi-Agra Yamuna Expressway at Dayanatpur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida on Wednesday.
At present, cybercrime police stations are operational in 18 divisional headquarters of the state. An IG level officer used to look after these, but after the establishment of more such stations, SPs would take up the responsibility