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UP Block Panchayat Polls: Police Officer Tells Senior He Was Slapped by BJP Workers, Video Goes Viral
11 Jul 2021
In a video, Additional Superintendent of Police (city) of Etawah Prashant Kumar Prasad is heard telling a senior over phone, "Sir, I have been slapped. BJP workers have also brought bombs."
Abdul Alim Jafri
UP: Dalit Families in Azamgarh Flee as UP Police Allegedly Vandalise Homes, Harass Women
06 Jul 2021
Even as police claims it was the villagers who attacked them after local dispute, the issue stirred a political furore, with Congress, BSP and Bhim Army demanding action against the police personnel…
PTI
Editors’ Guild Seeks FIR Withdrawal Against Journalists for Sharing Muslim Man’s Video
17 Jun 2021
Condemns ‘wanton use of the law” by UP Police to criminalise reporting and dissent to harass independent media
PTI
UP Police Books Twitter, Journalists for Circulating Video, Says Tried to Provoke Communal Unrest
16 Jun 2021
In the video clip, which surfaced on social media on June 14, the elderly Muslim man, Abdul Shamad Saifi, alleges he was thrashed by some young men and asked to chant 'Jai Shri Ram'.
Asad Rizvi
Muslims Fearful of Being Targeted After Fresh Spike in Attacks in UP
27 May 2021
Ahead of Assembly Polls early next year, is the BJP government trying to hide governance failures?
Abdul Alim Jafri
UP: Unnao Vegetable Vendor’s Family Loses Sole Breadwinner; Two Cops Arrested
25 May 2021
Faisal, the teenager, was allegedly beaten to death by policemen for ‘flouting’ lockdown norms; Activists term it “custodial death”.
Abdul Alim Jafri
UP: 162 Police Personnel Have Died Due to COVID-19 so far, 54 in West UP Alone
24 May 2021
The second wave has been harsher for police personnel who have been on the job 24X7 to enforce strict lockdown guidelines.
Abdul Alim Jafri
UP: Police Arrest Muslim Youth for Facebook Post on Palestine Amid Confusion
21 May 2021
The youth put up a post asking for people to put up a Palestinian flag on their houses and their cars. His family said that he had intended for the post to address people in Gaza, not Azamgarh.
The Leaflet
Kerala CM Asks UP’s Yogi Adityanath to Ensure Jailed Covid Positive Journalist Siddique Kappan is Treated Humanely; 11 Kerala MP Draw Attention of SC to Kappan’s Condition
26 Apr 2021
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Sunday wrote to his Uttar Pradesh (UP) counterpart Yogi Adityanath requesting him to accord humane treatment to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, who is…
Sabrang India
UP Police File 5,000-Page Chargesheet Against Siddique Kappan
06 Apr 2021
The police have alleged that Kappan and others received about Rs. 80 lakhs from financial institutions in Doha and Muscat to create unrest in the state.