Uttar Pradesh

Bareilly (UP), Aug 28 (PTI) A minor girl was allegedly raped by a 15-year-old boy at a village here, police said on Sunday.

The incident took place on Saturday, they said.

The boy took the five-year-old girl to a secluded place after luring her with a toffee and raped her, police said.

Hearing the screams, villagers reached the spot, caught the accused and handed him over to the police, officials said.

The police have detained the accused and arrested his father, they added.

Mainpuri (UP), Aug 28 (PTI) A 12-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped by six men here, police said on Sunday.

The incident took place on Friday when the six men kidnapped the girl, took to a field and raped her, they said.

The girl was alone in her house when the incident happened, police said.

An FIR has been lodged by the girl's father against the six men, aged between 25-27 years, under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code IPC and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, police said.

Noida, Aug 28 (PTI) The Supertech twin towers in Noida were demolished on Sunday, a year after the Supreme Court's direction to raze the illegally built structures to the ground.

The nearly 100-metre-high structures taller than Delhi's iconic Qutub Minar (73 metres) were brought to the ground in seconds literally like a house of cards by the 'waterfall implosion' technique, in a breathtaking spectacle of modern day engineering.

Minutes after the demolition, the nearby buildings appeared to be safe.

Kanpur: One 22-year-old candidate of Gautam Budh Nagar died while three others were hospitalised during a physical fitness test of aspirants for the post of fire constable in the Central Industrial Security Force here.

The CISF's recruitment process starting on Friday will be completed by September 7, as was reported.

There is reportedly a huge vacancy of 24000 posts of fire constables.

As many as 250 aspirants were summoned to attend the 5-Km run to try out their bodily health.

Kanpur:  A woman reportedly beat up a young man with a stick in Ghatampur. With the surfacing of video of this incident, the police have registered a case.

The young man fell to the ground. Even after this, the woman lashed out with sticks.

The police taking cognizance of the matter started an investigation.

SP Outer Tej Swaroop Singh said that the video is from Bihpur in Ghatampur.

On Wednesday, a woman named Lakshmi had beaten up a youth named Kallu Kushwaha with a stick.

Kanpur: Two children died tragically owing to the wrong steps taken by a father. The father jumped into the Ganges river with two innocent children in a drunken state.

As a result, both the children died drowning while the father was saved by the local people.

After getting the information about the incident, the police reached the spot, while a huge crowd of people gathered at the spot.

According to the information, Daya Shankar (30 years), a resident of Unnao, was married to Sita.

They have two children Shiva (3 years) and Shivansh (one year).

Kanpur: Like all other things impact of inflationary trends falls upon the repairing of the bikes, scooty and cycles also.

For merely restoring the punctured tubeless tyre the charge for a scooty wheel comes at Rs 40 or 60 only for checking the puncture spot as well as injecting the readymade stick into the wheel.

When the scooty owner objected to the surplus charge the repair shop owner did not reduce the amount but started arguing with the man owning the scooty.

Kanpur: The neighbour killed a municipal sanitation worker by stabbing him with a knife when he protested against molestation in Govind Nagar Kachi Basti.

During the beating of the sweeper, the killers also pelted stones at the relatives who came to save him.

The police reached after the information and investigated. Sanjan (35), a resident of Govind Nagar Kachi Basti, was a sanitation worker in the Municipal Corporation.

Kanpur: There has been a protest against the decision of the Municipal Corporation to collect tax from the morning walkers at Nana Rao Park in Phoolbagh here.

On Monday, a decision was taken by the municipal executive body to pay fees to those visiting Nana Rao Park. 

It was decided to charge free children up to the age of 5 years, Rs 5 for children from 6 to 12 years and Rs 10 for people above.

The fee will be charged from September 1. One month's pass will be made for Rs 250. The morning walkers will also have to pay a fee. Informs Mayor Pramila Pandey.

Barabanki (UP), Aug 22 (PTI) The body of a 17-year-old rape victim was recovered from a canal here, police said on Monday.

Police said the body was seen floating in the Indira Canal near Kazipur Behta village located on the Sitapur border on Saturday.

Additional Superintendent of Police Punendra Singh said according to the post-mortem report, she died due to drowning.

During investigation, police found that the girl, a resident of the Sandana police area, had left her house on August 18 for a court hearing and did not return.