Gurmej Singh, 30, is the second person to die; no FIRs have been filed in both the border deaths
BAREILLY: Gurmej Singh, 30, a resident of Bhoomi Dhan village along the Indo-Nepal border in UP’s Pilibhit, who was injured during firing by Nepalese police on March 4 and was shifted to King George’s Medical University in Lucknow in a critical state, succumbed on Sunday night. Nepalese police had reportedly resorted to indiscriminate firing on four persons who were “illegally” crossing the border. One of them, Govinda Singh, had died on the spot. UP Police had refused to file an FIR on the complaint that Nepalese police opened fire when the farmers were sowing sugarcane in their fields “near the no man’s land”.
Bareilly: Three tigers strayed across the border from Dudhwa and Pilibhit tiger reserves into Nepal this month, of which one was tranquilised and caged, the other broke free and is now lost, and one was found dead ensnared and declawed. While Nepal officials said the tiger was killed by poachers in India, wildlife officials in India said that was “highly unlikely.”
“We have spoken to Nepal officials to get details of all three tigers so we can match them against our database,” Dudhwa field director Sanjay Pathak said.
On March 16, a male tiger was tranquilised in the Khata corridor, which connects Nepal’s Bardia National Park and India’s Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary which, in turn, is a link between the tiger habitats of Dudhwa and Kishanpur. A day later, another male tiger was tranquilised about 100m from the India-Nepal border on the other side. It had reportedly killed six people in Nepal, a source said, and had been caged. But on March 24, it managed to break
Rizvi recently filed a petition in the Supreme Court demanding removal of 26 verses from the Quran
BAREILLY: Ditched by family, ostracized by his community and censured by a string of senior BJP leaders and those from other political parties, former chairperson of Shia Waqf board Waseem Rizvi is increasingly finding himself isolated and hated, with just a bunch of policemen around him.
He is under Y -category security and in an undisclosed location. This came after Rizvi recently filed a petition in the Supreme Court demanding removal of 26 verses from the Quran,
Old Lucknow’s iconic Bara Imambara hosted a massive protest in which people and religious heads from both Sunni and Shia sects took part and announced ostracism of Rizvi from the Muslim community.
Police on Sunday night seized 850 boxes of illicit branded whisky (Representative image).
PILIBHIT: A joint team of the excise department and local police on Sunday night seized 850 boxes of illicit branded whisky worth Rs 38 lakh from a truck and a car near Dhirpur Crossing in Farrukhabad.
The seizure was a part of a drive against illicit liquor launched following the order of additional chief secretary (excise) Sanjay R Bhoosreddy in view of the forthcoming panchayat elections.
The carriers failed to produce valid documents or the transit permits of the liquor stock being transported from Himachal Pradesh, said excise inspector Sanjay Gupta.
Akhilesh Yadav. (File photo)
BAREILLY: Moradabad police on Saturday lodged an FIR against former UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and as many as 20 Samajwadi Party workers on Saturday.
The FIR is related to an incident where journalists and media persons were allegedly manhandled and later thrashed by Yadav’s security personnel and his party workers during a press conference in Pakhwara area of Moradabad, on Thursday.
Meanwhile, a cross FIR was also registered under six IPC sections, by Moradabad police based on a complaint registered by Samajwadi Party district chief Jaiveer Singh Yadav, against two journalists. Police said that a case has been registered and a probe has been ordered.