Chaos over nomination of Sanjay Singh to RS
Guwahati: The nomination of Sanjay Singh, lok Sabha MP from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh, as Congress candidate for the Rajya Sabha seat from Assam has sparked protests across the State with various civil organisations and political parties opposing his candidature. They have decried Singh’s nomination terming it as a betrayal of the people of Assam by not selecting a local person as an outsider cannot solve the State’s problems.
leT operative gets RI in 2010 arms case
Hyderabad: lashkar-e-Tayyeba operative Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq was on Wednesday sentenced to seven-year rigorous imprisonment by a local court in connection with a 2010 case of recovery of weapons from him. The court of First Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, convicted Zia-ul-Haq for the offence under Section 5(b) of Explosive Substances Act besides fining him Rs 1,000. Haq, who was allegedly planning bomb attacks at public places and an MNC here, was arrested on May 3, 2010 from a location in the city.
Inspectors to head two-third pSs in UP
lUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh Government has decided to appoint inspectors in two-third of the police stations across the State, an official said on Wednesday. The State Cabinet on Tuesday gave a go-ahead to the ambitious proposal aimed at brining professionalism to the force, the official said. Uttar Pradesh has the largest police force in the world with 1,452 police stations, of which 350 are in urban areas and 1,102 are in the countryside. Home department officials say the State Government had earlier drawn plans to post inspectors as station house officers (SHOs) in all police stations, but logistics and short staffing did not allow it.
Three die in Uttar Pradesh clash
lucknow: Three people were killed and three injured in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district when two groups clashed after a teenaged girl was harassed, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place late on Tuesday in Sainda Faridpur village of Khurja, around 400 km from here, after the 14-year-old girl was harassed by a youth on Monday.
When she complained to her family, they roughed up the youth and warned him to stay away. But the youth harassed the teenager again on Tuesday after which both sides confronted.