Uttar Pradesh

Noida (UP), Dec 21 (PTI) The Noida Police has busted a fake call centre here which was being used to dupe US citizens, officials said Friday.

A raid was conducted at the call centre, located in Sector 63, late Thursday night on a tip-off that dubious operations were being carried out from there, Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Pal Sharma said.

He said "several" operators and callers were detained from the scene and were being interrogated.

Lucknow, Dec 21 (PTI) Citing the Agra case in which a girl was burnt alive, BSP leader Mayawati Friday lashed out at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh for its failure to fight crime, particularly that against women.

"It is a matter of grave concern that one girl is set on fire in Agra while another is subjected to gang rape, she said referring to two recent cases in the same district.

These incidents prove that hardened criminals are moving about freely in Uttar Pradesh," the Bahujan Samaj Party leader said in a statement.

Ballia (UP), Dec 21 (PTI) Four persons have been arrested for allegedly raping a teenage girl in Sikandarpur area here, police said Friday.

The police arrested four of the five accused on Thursday for raping the 13-year-old on November 29, they added.

"The arrested were identified as Manish, Arjun, Acchelal and Krishna. The fifth accused is on the run," a senior official said.

KANPUR: A very exceptional scene came up when the city’s mayor Pramilla Pandey sat on a simple rickshaw to attend a programme organised at Green Park here on Thursday. It became a talk of the town. Not only the Kanpur Municipal Corporation officials but Kanpur Development Authority officials were also discussed over this interesting ride.

Dressed in her saffron sari and sweater with an indigenous scarf she was feeling quite at ease in common man’s traditional means of transportation.

KANPUR: Emboldened with the spirit of victory in recently held Bar Association’s poll, a few advocates were hanging about in a fit of intoxicating drink on the road in Saket Nagar here on Wednesday late night.

Just then the police jeep taking the Circle officer happened to pass by the way, a drunk advocate suddenly came in front of the vehicle. He was saved as the driver applied brake immediately. This was enough to show how much he was influenced by the drink. 

Agra (UP), Dec 19 (PTI) A first year B.tech student was allegedly raped by four men near Poiya Ghat here, police said Wednesday.

The incident took place on Tuesday evening while the girl was going to her coaching centre, en route she was stopped by two men near Bhagwan Talkies crossing on the National Highway and was forcibly taken to an isolated place near the ghat where two other accused were already present and all the four raped her, police said.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Dec 19 (PTI) The half-naked body of an 18-year-old woman, who had gone missing for a day, was found Wednesday here, police said, suspecting that she was killed after being raped.

According to Circle Officer S S Negi, the body was found in the sugarcane fields in Salarpur village. It carried injury marks caused by a sharp-edged weapon, he said.

A case was registered in this connection against unidentified persons and a probe has been initiated, the CO said.

The body has been sent for post-mortem, he said.

KANPUR: In the wake of two different incidents of school collapse in NOIDA and Hardwar respectively,  it has been found as many as 40 schools in decrepit condition here. Strangely enough, the state government’s machinery does not wake up timely.

KANPUR: Unnao police and its SWAT team arrested an alleged contract killer Dhiraj Gupta r/o Burra area from Chakalwan Puliya on late Monday night.

Gupta was wanted in several cases of murder, attempt to murder and loot.

He had come to the district to commit a murder for which he had taken a hefty sum, said Harish Kumar, Superintendent of Police, Unnao.

18 Dec 2018; DW: India has opened a medical facility to treat elephants in Mathura, located near the Taj Mahal in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. This elephant hospital also hopes to draw activists interested in animal welfare.

More than half of Asia's elephants are found in India, but the country's elephant population has dipped in the past few years - by nearly 10 percent across 23 states between 2012 and 2017.