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Pratapgarh (UP), March 27 A court here has sentenced five people to life imprisonment in connection with the murder of a Dalit man in 2001.Additional District and Sessions Judge (SC/ST Act) Hemant Kumar pronounced the verdict after finding the accused guilty based on the evidence presented...

Pratapgarh/Chandauli (UP), March 23 Police have registered an FIR against a sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) posted in Chandauli and five of his family members for allegedly harassing his wife, also an SDM, for dowry, officials said on Monday.Circle Officer Prashant Raj Huda said the case was...

New Delhi, March 18 The Supreme Court has strongly criticised members of the Barabanki District Bar Association in Uttar Pradesh for vandalising a toll plaza and ransacking the office of a fellow advocate after he represented the toll employees, stating that the legal profession has now been...

Lucknow, March 16 Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Monday that leaders of the previous Samajwadi Party government worked only to serve the interests of their own family and relatives, but for the BJP, the entire 25 crore population of the state is its family.Speaking at a...

Pratapgarh (UP), March 12 Two people were killed and two others were injured when their car overturned while trying to avoid a stray bull in the Baghray area here, police said on Thursday.The incident occurred late Wednesday night near Chheunga village on the Lalgopalganj-Jethwara-Pratapgarh...

Pratapgarh (UP), March 5 At least three girls are feared to have drowned while bathing in the Sharda canal in the Sangramgarh area here on Thursday. Search operations for the bodies are underway, police said.Additional Superintendent of Police (West) Brijnandan Rai said that Aanchal (14) and...

Pratapgarh (UP), March 2 A 52-year-old man was allegedly shot dead here on Monday due to an old grudge, police said.Police have taken a suspect into custody in connection with the incident.Additional Superintendent of Police (East) Shailendra Lal said that Mohammad Salim, from Ramnagar...

Lucknow, March 1 The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has ruled that the credibility of an FIR cannot be doubted simply because it was prepared with the assistance of a lawyer.With this observation, the court upheld a person's conviction, even though it reduced his sentence from life...

Pratapgarh (UP), February 23 Police have registered a case against four individuals for alleged forced religious conversion and other offenses at the Jethwara police station here, an official said on Monday. One of them has been arrested.Additional Superintendent of Police (West) Vrajanandan...

Thane, February 22 A truck driver has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl in the Thane district, a police official said.Imran Subrati Khan, also known as Badal, who had been evading arrest in the case since November 2022, was apprehended by Crime Detection Unit 1 of...

Pratapgarh (UP), February 18 A criminal wanted under the Gangsters Act was injured in an encounter with police here, officials said on Wednesday.The encounter took place near the ATL Ground under the Kotwali Dehat police station area on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday during a...