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  • Opposition unity: Nitish will meet Mamta in Kolkata, Akhilesh in Lucknow

    Opposition unity: Nitish will meet Mamta in Kolkata, Akhilesh in Lucknow

    Patna (IANS) | Taking forward his efforts to unite the country’s opposition parties, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is going to meet his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday. Sources said that Nitish Kumar will go to Kolkata in the afternoon by a special plane and will meet Mamta Banerjee. He will discuss the points on which the opposition parties are uniting against the BJP for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    He is expected to stay in Kolkata for three to four hours, including a one-and-a-half or two-hour meeting with his West Bengal counterpart.

    However, leaders of Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress had earlier scheduled the Nitish-Mamata meeting for April 25.

    Trinamool insiders said Nitish Kumar is scheduled to arrive in Kolkata on Tuesday morning and meet Mamata at her Kalighat residence in south Kolkata the same evening.

    A member of the West Bengal cabinet said the meeting would focus on unity of opposition forces against the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    In the last few months, Mamata Banerjee has held several meetings with several non-BJP and non-Congress leaders on the issue of opposition unity against the BJP in the 2024 elections.

    Last month, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav went to Kalighat and met him.

    In the meeting, both the leaders agreed to maintain distance with Congress and focus on unity of regional forces against BJP in 2024 elections.

    Soon after meeting Akhilesh Yadav, Mamata Banerjee went to Odisha and held a meeting with her counterpart Naveen Patnaik.

    After this, he met Janata Dal-Secular leader H.D. Kumaraswamy met.

    Last week, he asked his Tamil Nadu counterpart M.K. The unity of opposition forces against Stalin and the role of governors in opposition-ruled states in the country was discussed.

    In recent times, Mamata has emphasized in all her public meetings that if the opposition unites before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, it is possible to end the BJP-led rule.

    However, she has always avoided the thorny issue of whether the Congress is part of her blueprint for a united opposition against the BJP.

    According to JDU, after meeting Mamta, Nitish Kumar will directly go to Lucknow to meet Akhilesh Yadav and discuss the same points.

    Nitish Kumar had earlier met Congress presidents Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, leaders of Left parties D. Raja and Sitaram Yechury to discuss opposition unity.

    –IANS

  • Uttarakhand: Security increased for CM Yogi’s family after Ateeq-Ashraf murder case

    Uttarakhand: Security increased for CM Yogi’s family after Ateeq-Ashraf murder case

    The murder case of Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf, the mafia of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, is in headlines these days. In such a situation, after this massacre in Uttarakhand, the police department of the state government has been alerted regarding the safety of the family members of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Police has increased the security of the family members of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath living in Panchur village of Yamkeshwar block of Pauri Garhwal district. Along with increasing the security system, the police is keeping an eye on the suspicious people coming to the village and the area. Along with this, the police is checking in public places.

    Let me tell you, on the night of April 15 in Prayagraj, at 10.30 pm, mafia Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were gunned down by three assailants. After carrying out this heart-wrenching incident, the attackers surrendered to the police at the same time. The SIT team is interrogating the accused shooters. After the Atiq murder case, all kinds of things are being circulated on social media about UP CM Yogi Adityanath. In view of this, the security of CM Yogi’s family has been increased in Uttarakhand along with Chief Minister Yogi and other ministers of UP. At the same time, Senior Superintendent of Police Pauri Garhwal Shweta Choubey told that we are working actively for the security of the Chief Minister’s ancestral residence and family.

  • Mother and son died after drinking acid

    Mother and son died after drinking acid

    Farrukhabad (IANS) | A 35-year-old woman and her 14-year-old son died after consuming acid in Daraura village of Farukhabad district. According to the police, Prem, a student of class eight, was scolded by his mother Malti Devi, angry with this, he drank acid kept in the house. Seeing the deteriorating condition of the son, the mother also drank acid. Malti Devi’s husband Avneesh Kumar said, I was in the temple when the incident happened and my daughter Palak, who was at home, called me. I reached home and with the help of villagers took him to the district hospital. Where he died during treatment.

    On receiving the information, the police reached the hospital and sent the bodies for postmortem.

    Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, Additional Superintendent of Police (SP), Farukhabad, said, “The investigation is on and action will be taken accordingly.”

    Several officers including CO Amritpur Ravindra Nath Rai and Station Head Amarpal Singh reached the village and inquired about the incident from the family members and neighbors.

    –IANS

  • Plea in SC for independent committee probe into killings of Atiq, Ashraf

    Plea in SC for independent committee probe into killings of Atiq, Ashraf

    New Delhi: A day after gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf were shot dead under police escort, a plea was filed in the Supreme Court on Sunday seeking the constitution of an independent expert committee headed by a former apex court judge to probe the killings.

    The plea, filed by advocate Vishal Tiwari, also sought an inquiry into the 183 encounters that have taken place in Uttar Pradesh since 2017.

    Ahmad (60) and Ashraf, who were in handcuffs, were shot dead by three men posing as journalists when they were answering reporters’ queries while being escorted by police personnel to a medical college in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj for a checkup on Saturday night.
    Just hours before the shooting, the last rites of Ahmad’s son Asad, who along with one of his associates was gunned down in a police encounter in Jhansi on April 13, were held.

    Uttar Pradesh Police had said on Friday that it has gunned down 183 alleged criminals in encounters in the six years of the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led government and this included Asad and his accomplice.

  • Shocked by Atiq Ahmed’s murder: Mamta

    Shocked by Atiq Ahmed’s murder: Mamta

    Kolkata (IANS) | West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday expressed deep grief over the killing of former MP Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf in Uttar Pradesh and claimed she was “genuinely shocked” by the double murder. CM Mamta Banerjee tweeted on Sunday, writing, I am shocked by the shameless anarchy and complete breakdown of law and order in Uttar Pradesh. It is shameful that criminals are now taking law into their own hands unperturbed in the presence of police and media. Such illegal acts have no place in our constitutional democracy.

    Meanwhile, addressing a public meeting at Suri in Birbhum district on Sunday afternoon, West Bengal Municipal Affairs and Urban Development Minister and Kolkata Municipal Corporation Mayor Firhad Hakim also referred to the double murder in Uttar Pradesh.

    Addressing the rally, Hakim said, an encounter like UP never happens in West Bengal. If you trust BJP then West Bengal will also become UP.

    He further said that Hakim also held the Uttar Pradesh government and the Union Home Ministry responsible for cattle smuggling in Bangladesh. The cattle mainly come from Uttar Pradesh and are then smuggled into Bangladesh, Hakim said. Therefore, the Uttar Pradesh government and the Union Home Ministry, which controls the Border Security Force, are the biggest beneficiaries of cattle smuggling.

    –IANS

  • Shooters who killed Atiq Ahmed were posing as Journalists: UP Police

    Shooters who killed Atiq Ahmed were posing as Journalists: UP Police

    Prayagraj: Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday said that shooters who killed mafia turned politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf on Saturday night were posing as Journalists at the spot of the incident.

    “Shooters were posing as journalists. As Atiq reached for a check-up, they were surrounded by other journalists and got close to Atiq and his brother. One was having a camera and was posing as a cameraman. While one was roaming with a mike where it was written NCR News. Third was assisting both,” police sources said.

    “As Atiq reached the hospital, reporters started questioning them after 2 lines, one guy fired on his head from very close and Atiq fell down. Another two guys also threw the camera and mike and started firing,” sources mentioned.

    Days after Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad was killed in an encounter in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi, the mafia-turned-politician and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were killed on Saturday while being taken for a medical in Prayagraj.

    Atiq Ahmed was accused in the 2005 BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case and also in the Umesh Pal murder case which happened in February this year.

    In the aftermath of the incident Uttar Pradesh Government on Sunday imposed Section 144 of CrPC in all the districts.

    In this regard UP Police have mentioned that a total of three arrests have been made.

    Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also appealed to the public to avoid paying attention to the rumours.

    “He also directed the police officials to remain vigilant and maintain law and order in the state,” UP Chief minister’s office statement said.

    UP Government on Sunday also imposed Section 144 in all the districts of Uttar Pradesh.

  • Bodies of Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad, aide Ghulam taken to mortuary

    Bodies of Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad, aide Ghulam taken to mortuary

    Jhansi: Uttar Pradesh Police in the wee hours of Saturday took the bodies of the mafia turned politician Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad and his aide Ghulam to the mortuary in Prayagraj.

    As per the visuals, two ambulances and an Uttar Pradesh police van were seen taking the bodies to the mortuary in Prayagraj.

    Earlier Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad and his aide Ghulam wanted in the Umesh Pal murder case, were killed in an encounter with UP Special Task Force in Jhansi on Thursday, a plan was foiled to help the jailed gangster to escape, Uttar Pradesh Police said.

    State’s Special Director General (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar revealed that teams of civil police and special forces were deployed following the intelligence inputs of a plan by Asad of planning to free his father Atiq Ahmed by attacking a police convoy midway as the gangster turned politician was being brought in Uttar Pradesh for hearing.

    “We had information that to help the accused Atiq and Ashraf escape there could be an attack on the police convoy bringing them back to UP in the case (Umesh Pal murder case). In view of this information, teams of civil police and special forces were deployed,” said Prashant Kumar.

    Revealing further as to how the encounter took place, he said that based on the information, two teams were deployed and Asad was intercepted, while he was on a bike along with his aide Ghulam.

    “Action was taken on the basis of information and at around 12:30 and 1 pm the duo were killed in a retaliatory firing,” Kumar said, adding that the Special Task Force conducted the entire operation.

    Each of them carried a reward of Rupees five lakh. The police said that foreign-made weapons were recovered.

  • Mockdrill took place in UP hospitals amid increasing corona, Deputy CM took charge

    Mockdrill took place in UP hospitals amid increasing corona, Deputy CM took charge

    Lucknow (IANS) | Mock drill was organized in the entire state today among the increasing number of corona patients in Uttar Pradesh. During this, all the officials from the minister inspected the arrangement of hospitals in different districts. Mock drills were conducted in Lucknow hospitals to check the management of treatment of Covid patients. Deputy CM himself reached the spot to see the arrangements at Balrampur Hospital. The Deputy CM saw the process of admitting the dummy patient. Appreciated the arrangements.

    Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak reached Balrampur Hospital. He saw the doctor-staff in PPE kit taking the dummy patient from the stretcher to the super specialty block. First of all, the oxygen level of the patient lying on the stretcher was checked with the pulse oximeter in the super specialty block. Then body temperature was measured. The doctors told the condition of the dummy patient to be critical. Told the need to put the patient on ventilator. The doctors immediately put the patient on ventilator.

    The process from bringing the patient to the ward to putting him on the ventilator took five to seven minutes. Got immediate treatment. Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak asked the director of the hospital Dr. Ramesh Goyal and CMS Dr. GP Gupta about the treatment arrangements. Received information about the supply and consumption of oxygen. The Deputy CM praised the arrangements of the hospital.

    Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak said that mock drill has taken place in many hospitals of the state. In Lucknow, the system of recruitment of Kovid patients was practiced in about ten hospitals. Preparations were found strong in all the hospitals. Hospitals are capable to compete with Kovid. Arrangements ranging from medicine to oxygen were found right. He said that the doctors and staff are dedicated in serving the patients.

    On the other hand, in view of the conditions of Corona in Prayag, a mock drill of preparations took place at Swarooprani Nehru Hospital and Bailey Hospital. Dr. Alok Kumar, representative of the World Health Organisation, saw all the oxygen plants in SRN Hospital, the status and pressure of oxygen supply from there.

    –IANS

  • Umesh Pal murder case: Arrested for helping Atiq’s son Asad

    Umesh Pal murder case: Arrested for helping Atiq’s son Asad

    New Delhi (IANS) | Asad, the son of gangster Atiq Ahmed, who is lodged in a jail in Uttar Pradesh, had come to Delhi after the murder of Umesh Pal, the key witness in the 2005 BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case. The Special Cell of Delhi Police has detained three people in this connection. A police source said, Asad came to Delhi’s Sangam Vihar where he stayed at his associate’s house for about 15 days. The police identified the owner of the house as Javed. The police identified three of his associates who helped him hide in Delhi.

    During his stay in Delhi, Asad sent one of his associates to Meerut. His associate collected the money in Meerut and returned to Delhi to hand over the cash to him.

    The source said that an old driver of Atiq Ahmed lives in Delhi and it was he who helped Asad get the money from Meerut.

    Uttar Pradesh is in touch with STF Special Cell. They are conducting raids in NCR to find out who was helping Assad. The three people who have been detained by the Special Cell in Delhi are currently being interrogated.

    Asad is wanted in the firing incident on February 24 this year in which Umesh Pal was killed.

    –IANS

  • two arrested; Four members of Hindu Mahasabha absconding

    two arrested; Four members of Hindu Mahasabha absconding

    The Agra police in Uttar Pradesh arrested two people and are on the lookout for seven others, including four members of the All India Hindu Mahasabha, for allegedly lodging a false FIR against four Muslim men on cow slaughtering charges at Etmaddulah police station last month. Among the accused are Muslim men who had enmity with the four people named in the FIR, the police said.

    “On April 6, the Agra police arrested two people, Imran Qureshi alias Thakur and Shanu alias Illi, who were part of the plan to frame innocent people in the case. Raids are on to trace seven other accused, whose role came up during the investigation,” Agra Assistant Commissioner of Police R K Singh said.
    Sanjay Jat, the national spokesperson of the Mahasabha, is the prime accused in the case, he added. ACP Singh said that the accused held a grudge against the four men named in the FIR and framed them to settle scores.

    Jat, the complainant Jitendra Kumar, and other office-bearers of the Mahasabha did not respond to calls.

    According to the police, on March 30, on the eve of Ram Navami, Mahasabha leader Jitendra Kumar filed a police complaint alleging that he had received information that Rizwan alias Kalta and his sons Nakeem, Vijju alias Chottu, and Shanu were slaughtering a cow in the thickets near Gautam Nagar and were planning to sell the meat.

    Kumar told the police that he rushed to the spot with his friends Vishal and Manish Pandit. On seeing them, he said, the accused fled. Following Kumar’s complaint, an FIR was lodged against Rizwan and his sons at Etmaddulah police station under sections of the UP Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act. When the police reached the spot, they found cow meat.

    Nakeem is an employee of the Agra Municipal Corporation and Mahasabha workers and leaders staged a protest outside the police station, demanding the accused’s arrest.

    Raju Kumar, the station house officer (SHO) at Etmaddulah police station, said that during the probe, the police learnt that the four men named in the FIR were not present at the spot. The police said they arrived at the conclusion on the basis of human intelligence, surveillance, CCTV footage and other evidence.

    On April 6, the police arrested Qureshi and Illi, both Agra residents. The police said that they recovered a knife used in the crime from their possession.

    During questioning, SHO Kumar said, the arrested accused allegedly confessed to the plan to frame the four innocent men. They allegedly also revealed that Nakeem had in the past complained about them, following which the police had arrested them.
    “No evidence has so far been found against the four Muslim men named in the FIR. Investigation is on,” SHO Kumar said.