LUCKNOW, JUNE 23 (PTI)
Notorious criminal Guddu alias Kashmira, carrying a cash reward of Rs 5000 on his head, was killed in an encounter with police at Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh today, police said.
On a tip off, a team of local police and special operation group challenged three criminals hiding near village Gaura and killed Kashmira while his accomplice managed to escape.
Two constables Arshad and Harnath Yadav were also injured in the exchange of fire and were admitted to a local hospital, they added.
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
UP MP gets protection in Mumbai
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2005 09:04:58 PM ]
MUMBAI: In a rare case, the state Samajwadi Party (SP) chief, Abu Asim Azmi, using his MP status has got protection from the Uttar Pradesh Police as his security was scaled down by the Mumbai police.
In the first term of the Democratic Front government, the Samajwadi Party was a part of the DF government. Azmi had been given protection and four armed constables accompanied him.
About two years ago, the Maharashtra government scaled down his security to just one guard, which upset him. After Mulayam SIngh of the SP took over as the UP chief minister, he gave protection to Azmi, who now has three stengun-weilding guards from Azamgarh in UP accompanying him all over Maharashtra.
The fact that he is a Rajya Sabha MP from UP helped even though he is in Mumbai most of the time. He stays in a penthouse in Colaba and has vast business interests in the city.
Additional commissioner of police (protection) Surinder Kumar said "it is illegal to use policemen from other states on a long-term basis." "I will find out how the UP government has given him security cover in Mumbai," he added. Deputy commissioner of police Naval Bajaj said law and order was state subject and other government's cannot interfere here. An inspector of Colaba police, in whose jurisdiction Azmi resides, "We have not permitted him to bring police police personnel from UP."
Azmi said he had to get protection from UP since the Mumbai had scaled down his security without any basis. He said he did not share with the city's police's threat perception.
"As recently as two months ago, someone had fired a bullet on my Mercedes car when I was passing through Nagpada. I have lodged a complaint with the Nagpada police.
The Mumbai police's response was to give me one more guard," he told this paper on Tuesday. Azmi is a former serial bomb blast accused who was acquitted by the supreme court.
Since the Mumbai police has not given him a escort vehicle, Azmi uses his personal vehicle, a Mahindra Bolero, to ferry his guards, including those from UP.
Does he really need so much the security? Some police officers feel that having sten gun toting guards has become a status symbol. Former police commissioner M.N. Singh said during his tenure a person close to the then chief minister of Haryana OP Chautala had brought guards from the northern state. "We objected to that and got the guards removed," he added.
MUMBAI: In a rare case, the state Samajwadi Party (SP) chief, Abu Asim Azmi, using his MP status has got protection from the Uttar Pradesh Police as his security was scaled down by the Mumbai police.
In the first term of the Democratic Front government, the Samajwadi Party was a part of the DF government. Azmi had been given protection and four armed constables accompanied him.
About two years ago, the Maharashtra government scaled down his security to just one guard, which upset him. After Mulayam SIngh of the SP took over as the UP chief minister, he gave protection to Azmi, who now has three stengun-weilding guards from Azamgarh in UP accompanying him all over Maharashtra.
The fact that he is a Rajya Sabha MP from UP helped even though he is in Mumbai most of the time. He stays in a penthouse in Colaba and has vast business interests in the city.
Additional commissioner of police (protection) Surinder Kumar said "it is illegal to use policemen from other states on a long-term basis." "I will find out how the UP government has given him security cover in Mumbai," he added. Deputy commissioner of police Naval Bajaj said law and order was state subject and other government's cannot interfere here. An inspector of Colaba police, in whose jurisdiction Azmi resides, "We have not permitted him to bring police police personnel from UP."
Azmi said he had to get protection from UP since the Mumbai had scaled down his security without any basis. He said he did not share with the city's police's threat perception.
"As recently as two months ago, someone had fired a bullet on my Mercedes car when I was passing through Nagpada. I have lodged a complaint with the Nagpada police.
The Mumbai police's response was to give me one more guard," he told this paper on Tuesday. Azmi is a former serial bomb blast accused who was acquitted by the supreme court.
Since the Mumbai police has not given him a escort vehicle, Azmi uses his personal vehicle, a Mahindra Bolero, to ferry his guards, including those from UP.
Does he really need so much the security? Some police officers feel that having sten gun toting guards has become a status symbol. Former police commissioner M.N. Singh said during his tenure a person close to the then chief minister of Haryana OP Chautala had brought guards from the northern state. "We objected to that and got the guards removed," he added.
Monday, June 20, 2005
'Dead' UP villagers plead for life
Monday, 20 June , 2005, 10:37
Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh): Can there be a greater travesty of life than being declared dead when alive and kicking?
A visit to the Uttar Pradesh town of Azamgarh can certainly serve as an eye-opener, for here there is a motley group of pensioners, widows and orphaned children who are fighting to convince the local authorities that they are in fact, alive.
A heady concoction of greed, corruption, melodrama, death and rebirth, their lives may inspire a perfect Hollywood thriller. This group are victims of a long-practised land swindle racket.
Greedy relatives often bribe officials into declaring them dead to grab what is many times less than an acre of land. Most of these people have been 'dead' for close to a decade and lost their entire life-savings in fighting legal battles to prove their mortal status.
Harassed and broken, they have courted arrest, tried to contest elections for Parliament, kidnapped children, issued threats of murder, insulted judiciary and even local legislators -- all to prove that they are alive, but without any luck.
Ram Lalak Yadav, is one such "dead man". He has been fighting to prove that he is alive for the last 12 years and claims that his brother declared him dead when he was working in another city. "My brother declared me dead and took away my land. They struck off my name from the register. I have been fighting the case since 1993. The commissioner's office had declared me alive but they (his brothers) filed a case in the lower court, where I was again declared dead. Now, my case has been shifted to the Allahabad High Court," he said.
Phool Chand, another petitioner, has a similar tale to tell. "I was declared dead by my brothers who wanted to take away my property. The matter is in the high court and so far no decision has been taken," he said.
Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh): Can there be a greater travesty of life than being declared dead when alive and kicking?
A visit to the Uttar Pradesh town of Azamgarh can certainly serve as an eye-opener, for here there is a motley group of pensioners, widows and orphaned children who are fighting to convince the local authorities that they are in fact, alive.
A heady concoction of greed, corruption, melodrama, death and rebirth, their lives may inspire a perfect Hollywood thriller. This group are victims of a long-practised land swindle racket.
Greedy relatives often bribe officials into declaring them dead to grab what is many times less than an acre of land. Most of these people have been 'dead' for close to a decade and lost their entire life-savings in fighting legal battles to prove their mortal status.
Harassed and broken, they have courted arrest, tried to contest elections for Parliament, kidnapped children, issued threats of murder, insulted judiciary and even local legislators -- all to prove that they are alive, but without any luck.
Ram Lalak Yadav, is one such "dead man". He has been fighting to prove that he is alive for the last 12 years and claims that his brother declared him dead when he was working in another city. "My brother declared me dead and took away my land. They struck off my name from the register. I have been fighting the case since 1993. The commissioner's office had declared me alive but they (his brothers) filed a case in the lower court, where I was again declared dead. Now, my case has been shifted to the Allahabad High Court," he said.
Phool Chand, another petitioner, has a similar tale to tell. "I was declared dead by my brothers who wanted to take away my property. The matter is in the high court and so far no decision has been taken," he said.
District authorities, however, deny any such case. "In my knowledge, there is no such case of anybody being declared dead. Nobody has come complained," said Raja Ram Upadhyay, Azamgarh's District Magistrate.
Estimates say at least 10,000 living people are declared dead in Uttar Pradesh government's official records.
ANI
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
24 hrs after missing girl’s body found, cops pass the buck
Manish Sahu
Lucknow, May 31: BELIEVE it or not, 24 hours after Manila Verma, 22, was found strangulated to death at the rented flat of one Madhav Gupta, a resident of Ballia, two police stations are still fighting over who would lodge a case.
Gupta, who the police say was in love with the girl but killed her, is on the run. The police had entered the house in Aliganj last evening after neighbours complained of a foul smell. They found the decomposed body of Verma, who had been missing since Saturday. She was holding a love letter with Madhav Gupta’s name in her hand.
BrideGroom
Daughter of Hari Om, who lives in Sector 4 of Vikas Nagar, Verma got acquainted with Gupta recently when he came to Lucknow to prepare for the medical entrance examinations. The police have detained a boy, Shailesh Chaurasia, son of a sub-inspector posted in Azamgarh, as they suspect that the girl was introduced to Gupta by Chaurasia. No motive for the murder has been established.
No FIR has been registered so far at either the Aliganj or Vikas Nagar police station. While a missing report was lodged by the girl’s father at Vikas Nagar, the body was found in the jurisdiction of the Aliganj police station. ‘‘The murder occurred in Aliganj police station’s area and the case should be lodged there,’’ said the station officer of Vikas Nagar, Inspector Laxman Verma. His counterpart at the Aliganj police station, Inspector D D Tiwari, countered this, pointing out that since the circumstances of the crime originated in Vikas Nagar (the missing report was registered there), the FIR should be registered there. He added that they could relent if the other police station didn’t agree. A police team did go to Ballia for arresting Gupta but he had left the house before they reached, said Aliganj SO Tiwari.
Shailash is a classmate of the victim at College of Art, affiliated to LU. ‘‘Manila was having an affair with Madhav Kumar Gupta who is the son of Dr Shiv Singh in Ballia. He was a tenant of one S B Velan and was preparing for the CPMT examination. He used to visit the college in the morning to meet the girl,’’ Shailesh told this reporter.
On May 29, a missing report had been registered at the Vikasnagar police station. According to Manila’s family, she had left the house on May 28 at 6.30 pm, saying she would return soon. When she did not return till the evening of May 29, they lodged a complaint at the police station.
Lucknow, May 31: BELIEVE it or not, 24 hours after Manila Verma, 22, was found strangulated to death at the rented flat of one Madhav Gupta, a resident of Ballia, two police stations are still fighting over who would lodge a case.
Gupta, who the police say was in love with the girl but killed her, is on the run. The police had entered the house in Aliganj last evening after neighbours complained of a foul smell. They found the decomposed body of Verma, who had been missing since Saturday. She was holding a love letter with Madhav Gupta’s name in her hand.
BrideGroom
Daughter of Hari Om, who lives in Sector 4 of Vikas Nagar, Verma got acquainted with Gupta recently when he came to Lucknow to prepare for the medical entrance examinations. The police have detained a boy, Shailesh Chaurasia, son of a sub-inspector posted in Azamgarh, as they suspect that the girl was introduced to Gupta by Chaurasia. No motive for the murder has been established.
No FIR has been registered so far at either the Aliganj or Vikas Nagar police station. While a missing report was lodged by the girl’s father at Vikas Nagar, the body was found in the jurisdiction of the Aliganj police station. ‘‘The murder occurred in Aliganj police station’s area and the case should be lodged there,’’ said the station officer of Vikas Nagar, Inspector Laxman Verma. His counterpart at the Aliganj police station, Inspector D D Tiwari, countered this, pointing out that since the circumstances of the crime originated in Vikas Nagar (the missing report was registered there), the FIR should be registered there. He added that they could relent if the other police station didn’t agree. A police team did go to Ballia for arresting Gupta but he had left the house before they reached, said Aliganj SO Tiwari.
Shailash is a classmate of the victim at College of Art, affiliated to LU. ‘‘Manila was having an affair with Madhav Kumar Gupta who is the son of Dr Shiv Singh in Ballia. He was a tenant of one S B Velan and was preparing for the CPMT examination. He used to visit the college in the morning to meet the girl,’’ Shailesh told this reporter.
On May 29, a missing report had been registered at the Vikasnagar police station. According to Manila’s family, she had left the house on May 28 at 6.30 pm, saying she would return soon. When she did not return till the evening of May 29, they lodged a complaint at the police station.
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