Ghaziabad Violence

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  Sheikh Hasina Meets NSA Doval Near Delhi, May Seek Asylum In UK

  Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina - who resigned as Prime Minister this evening in the face of violent protests - landed at the Hindon Air Force base in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad Monday evening, en route to London.

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  "People Say No One Will Marry Their Sons": Akhilesh Yadav Ally On Agnipath

  Urging the protesters to shun violence and get organised so that the government hears them clearly, Rajya Sabha member Jayant Chaudhary said on Friday that the Agnipath scheme will have to be rolled back. "That's the only rational choice."

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  Cops Search "Every Vehicle" As Congress's Sachin Pilot On Way To UP's Sitapur, Lakhimpur

  Senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot landed in Delhi this morning and set out for Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur by road straight from the airport, sources close to him said.

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  Delhi Police Special Cell To Probe Republic Day Violence

  Delhi Police Thursday issued lookout notices against farmer leaders and registered a case under the stringent UAPA and sedition for the Republic Day violence and said its Special Cell will probe the "conspiracy" and "criminal designs" behind the incidents, even as the Ghaziabad administration gave an ultimatum to the protesters at UP Gate to vacate...

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  65 Arrested Over Protests Against Citizenship Act In Ghaziabad

  Sixty-five people were arrested and 350, including a former legislator, have been charged for allegedly spreading violence over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), police said on Saturday.

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  4 Cops Suspended For Allegedly Thrashing Couple

  Three policemen posted at the Kavi Nagar police station in Ghaziabad were suspended on Thursday for allegedly thrashing a couple, officials said.

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  Ghost Village, False Cases: The Aftermath Of Dalit Bandh Violence In UP

  Shriram Hiteshi, an 85-year-old Dalit social activist running a school, is one of the many from his community accused of rioting and attempt to murder, in two First Information Reports (FIRs) filed by the Ghaziabad police. These FIRs were filed after the violence that took place on April 2, the day Dalit groups had called a Bharat Bandh to protest ...

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  Bharat Bandh: 32 Held, Complaint Against 5,000 People Over Ghaziabad Violence

  As many as 5,000 people have been booked for creating ruckus and damaging public and government properties here during protests against "dilution" of the provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the SSP said.

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  Violence Erupts in Part of Ghaziabad, Dozen Injured

  About a dozen people, including policemen, were injured in Ghaziabad today when police used force to free a plot from encroachment, officials said.

• Violence mars lawyers' agitation in Meerut

  An agitation by lawyers in Meerut demanding the setting up of a high court bench in western Uttar Pradesh turned violent on Wednesday when civil administration employees confronted them.

• Six riots in Akhilesh's six months as Chief Minister in Uttar Pradesh

  When Akhilesh Yadav took charge as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh six months ago, he promised to act tough against communal forces in the state. In these six months, the state saw six major riots. In Bareilly district, some localities were under curfew for days. In Ghaziabad, the most recent, six people died in police firing after a mob turned...

• Police station burnt down in Ghaziabad after Quran's desecration

  Irate community members set fire to a police station in Masuri town of Ghaziabad district tonight, after the Holy Quran, with its pages splashed with abusive graffiti, was discovered, police said.

• Ghaziabad: 8-year-old dies after being brutally beaten

  In a ghastly incident, an eight-year-old girl died in Ghaziabad, after she was allegedly beaten with hot iron rods.Police have arrested the girl's sister and her husband and a case of murder and rape has been registered. The police says that neighbours have reported that the girl's uncle attacked her after Rs 2000 was stolen from his house.The gi...

• Dalit man lynched in Ghaziabad, case filed

  A Dalit man was allegedly lynched by eight men in Ghaziabad, UP after they suspected he was taking an animal for slaughtering. Police said they were taking along a cow with them.The incident took place on late Sunday night when Surender was returning home with his wife and daughter. The men surrounded him and first questioned him but not being sati...

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  Violence in Ghaziabad over authorisation of colony

  For years, they have been living in homes that the government now says have been illegally constructed.