This is the first charge sheet filed in connection with the violence that erupted over suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma's remarks against the Prophet.
The Kanpur Police has filed the first chargesheet in connection with the June 3 violence over remarks against Prophet Mohammad. The chargesheet names 47 people, including Hayat Zafar Hashmi, Mukhtar Baba, and Wasi.
A minister in Yogi Adityanath's Uttar Pradesh government has been accused of fleeing from a court in Kanpur after a guilty verdict in a 1991 case, before the quantum of sentence could be decided.
UP News: Rakesh Sachan is the Minister-in-Charge of Small, Medium and Small Scale Industries and Khadi Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh. A Kanpur court on Saturday found him guilty in a case of illegal possession of arms in 1991.