The development came days after Bharatiya Kisan Union’s national president Naresh Tikait suggested a social boycott of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh
BAREILLY: Days after signboards calling for boycott of BJP were put up in Shamli, similar boards came up in Sambhal, stating that the entry of BJP functionaries was restricted in the villages. Police intervened and removed the boards. The police move, however, was condemned by BKU members who said they would now paint walls of their houses and shops with similar messages. “If police can put up iron nails and barbed fences to stop farmers, can’t we put up signboards,” asked BKU members.
Pilibhit: Following the chief judicial magistrate’s order, police late Saturday night booked a man and his son for allegedly kidnapping their rival af.
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PILIBHIT: Following an Allahabad high court order, a Lucknow-based petitioner, Kaushalendra Singh, has sent a representation to the principal chief conservator of forest (wildlife) of UP, the field director of Dudhwa National Park (DNP) and the district magistrate of Kheri, to start proceedings for the eviction of dwellers of village Surma from the core forest area of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR).
As per the petitioner, the relocation of the village is essential as its residents indulge in poaching, illegal felling of trees and other wildlife crime in the core forest area, dozens of cases of which have been officially reported so far.
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BAREILLY: Moradabad police on Friday arrested a youth for allegedly harassing a 20-year-old BA final-year student in Dilari village in Moradabad district.
The complainant alleged that the youth, identified as Shariq also a resident of Bamania Patti under Dilari police jurisdiction often harassed her in public and passed lewd comments when she returned from her coaching classes. The victim also alleged that the accused threatened of kidnapping her on being opposed.
SHO Dilari police station Sanjay Kumar told TOI, “On the basis of the complaint, an FIR has been registered against the accused under section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code and the accused has been arrested.”
Bareilly: Officials of SSB 3rd battalion and the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in a joint operation have seized a tiger’s skin and other body parts from the possession of two local youths, who were trying to enter Nepal through Belaparsuva border outpost in Lakhimpur Kheri district on Saturday night.
Forest department officials said they were interrogating the accused and trying to gather information about other people associated with them in tiger poaching.
The accused were identified as Somdev Pasi (23) and Vinod Pasi (22), both hailing from Takiya Purva village adjacent to buffer forests of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve.
Officials said they seized a tiger skin of 187-cm length, ten front nails and eight back nails from the possession of the accused. The tiger skin was intact, which suggested that the accused might have killed the tiger either by poisoning or snaring, said officials.