: Thursday, April 29, 2021, 9:11 AM IST
Twitter furious over clip of man begging officials as they cart away oxygen cylinder; Agra Police says it was empty
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With the COVID-19 pandemic raging, Uttar Pradesh has emerged as one of the worst affected states. As per Health Ministry data on Thursday morning, it now stands second in the list of worst affected states with a little more than three lakh active cases. And to make matters worse, contradictory reports and allegations abound when it comes to the ground situation.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath recently insisted that the state had adequate oxygen stock, directing officials to utilise the National Security Act to take action against hospitals alleging a shortage. More recently, an FIR was filed against a man who had taken to Twitter seeking oxygen for his grandfather in Amethi. A quick perusal of Twitter however shows that he is not alone. In recent days, countless individuals have made efforts to procure relevant m
Villagers stand in queue to cast their vote at the polling station, during the first phase of Uttar Pradesh Gram Panchayat election, in a village Phulpur, Prayagraj. (PTI)
PRAYAGRAJ: Taking note of the reported deaths of 135 teachers, shiksha mitras and investigators assigned panchayat election duty, the Allahabad HC on Tuesday issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh State Election Commission (UPSEC) and asked why it failed to check non-compliance of Covid guidelines during multiple phases of panchayat elections.
The court further asked why action should not be taken against it and its officials.
A division bench of Justices Siddhartha Varma and Ajit Kumar further directed UPSEC to “take immediately measures in the remaining phases of panchayat elections to ensure Covid guidelines are complied with, else action would be taken against officials involved in the election process”.
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BAREILLY: His name, she knew the day she fell for him, would raise walls between them. Mohammad Iqbal. Not what her parents had in mind for the 22-year-old Hindu girl from a town near Varanasi diligently preparing for administrative exams. After four years of trying to bring her family around and failing and then suddenly facing the threat of arrest if her unhappy kin pressed charges they left. Many like them have, or are, running away from towns in UP.
“When my parents found out about Iqbal, I was locked inside my room, CCTV cameras at every possible point in the house,” Smriti, now 26, told TOI. “They took me to a hypnotist to check if he had hypnotised me into falling for him.” Eventually, they disowned her. Smriti and Iqbal then rented a house in Delhi, applied for marriage under the Special Marriages Act.
A team of Uttar Pradesh police found a 21-year-old woman from a house near Delhi’s Karkardooma metro station on Wednesday, 35 days after she went “missing” from Etah district, reports Deepak Lavania.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Javed, the main accused of “abduction and unlawful conversion” of the Hindu woman to Islam along with four of his close relatives remained elusive.
Etah police approached a local court to issue non-bailable warrants against the five men who are booked under the new anti-conversion law of the state. The court issued the warrants in the afternoon. DSP Ram Niwas Singh said, “After six days, we managed to recover the woman from a house in Delhi. The main accused had kept her at his friend’s place. She is not willing to share any information about allegations of her abduction and unlawful conversion, as made by her father.”