While the government of the Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Uttar Pradesh’s Yogi Adityanath, has stated that it will impose a strict law to address what right-wing groups call ‘love jihad’, the proposed bill will not mention this politically controversial phrase. . Some saffron groups and BJP leaders have used …
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The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday entrusted the follow-up of the investigation into the Hathras gangrape and murder case to the Allahabad (HC) High Court and left it open on the transfer of the trial from Uttar Pradesh (UP) to Delhi after The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) completes its …
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The Uttar Pradesh government’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) has completed its investigation into the gang rape of the 19-year-old Dalit woman last month in the state district of Hathras, the ANI news agency reported on Friday. SIT will soon present its report to the state government, the agency added. Amid …
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A four-year-old girl was reportedly raped by her relative in Sasni, in Hathras of Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday. Police said the defendant has been arrested. “A case has been registered,” the ANI news agency said, citing circle official Ruchi Gupta. The incident comes a month after a 19-year-old girl was …
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Hathras rape case: UP police accused of being slow to react to complaint Highlight Yogi Adityanath’s government had recommended a CBI investigation last week The UP government has come under strong criticism for its handling of the case. Many have compared the case to the 2012 gang rape in the …
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Social activist Teesta Setalvad has accused the Uttar Pradesh police of “complicity” in protecting men accused of being gang members and fatally assaulting a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras, following recent attempts by high-ranking officials of the police downplaying the crime. In one request, Setalvad demanded a court-supervised investigation by …
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Family of Hathras victim: All four defendants in the incident have been arrested. (Proceedings) Bulgaddhi / Hathras: In search of justice for the 19-year-old girl, relatives of Hathras’s victim spoke to reporters after two days when the media were able to enter her village. “We want to know whose body …
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New Delhi: All states have information departments to issue the official line on any subject. But only in ‘atmanirbhar’ Uttar Pradesh did the government feel the need to enlist the services of a public relations firm to pressure its controversial claim that the 19-year-old Dalit woman who was gang raped …
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NEW DELHI: BJP Leader Uma Bharti on Friday he urged Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath allow opposition leaders and the media to visit the family of Victim of Hathras. In a series of tweets, Uma Bharti said that Hathras Incident and the suspicious action of the UP police has …
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Lucknow: It is unlikely that the Uttar Pradesh government would have expected the stern notification it received from the Lucknow court from the Allahabad high court on the Hathras gang rape case, which the Yogi Adityanath administration now appears to be attempting to distort and dilute. Significantly, a court division …
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