“The shameful truth is that Dalits, Muslims and Tribals are not considered human by many Indians,” the former Congress Speaker tweeted. Former Congress Speaker Rahul Gandhi said Sunday that Uttar Pradesh Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath and state police denied that the 19-year-old victim in the Hathras gang rape and murder …
Read More »Hathras gangrape: SIT established, but Dalit BJP MPs say: image dented, politically damaging
Written by Liz Mathew, Avaneesh Mishra | Lucknow, New Delhi | Updated: October 1, 2020 1:07:47 pm The funeral pyre of Hathras’s victim, hours later. (Express photo: Amil Bhatnagar) As the UP government established a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the alleged gangrape of a 19-year-old Dalit woman For …
Read More »Amid night cremation, family of Hathras rape victim say police did not allow them to take the body home
Written by Amil Bhatnagar, Jignasa Sinha | New Delhi | Updated: September 30, 2020 5:52:11 am Police remove the father and brother of the 19-year-old Hathras victim from Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi after persuading them to end a dharna on Tuesday. (Express photo: Tashi Tobgyal) The body of the 19-year-old …
Read More »UP man opens his pregnant wife’s stomach to check the sex of the baby
By: PTI | Badaun | Updated: September 20, 2020 8:28:19 pm The woman is said to be six to seven months pregnant, police said. In a disgusting incident, a father of five daughters here allegedly tore open his pregnant wife’s stomach on Saturday night, supposedly to find out if she …
Read More »Yogi Adityanath announces the creation of the country’s ‘largest’ film city in Noida
By: PTI | Lucknow | September 19, 2020 2:35:50 pm The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced on Friday the creation of the country’s “largest” film city in Gautam Buddh Nagar state, officials here said. “The CM, while addressing a review meeting, …
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