Muzaffarnagar Clashes

Eighteen people were injured when two groups clashed at a CNG filling station in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.

As many as 21 people were killed in violent protests that broke out against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Uttar Pradesh last month. While many of them died of bullet injuries, the state police have owned up to firing in just one instance in the western district of Bijnor.

Two families clashed in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar over a suspected love affair, police said on Sunday, leading to four persons being critically injured.

The seven-phased national elections begin on Thursday and Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh, which polls in the first phase, is set for a clash of heavyweights - Rashtriya Lok Dal Chief Ajit Singh andBJP leader Sanjeev Balyan, the sitting lawmaker here.

Several people were injured in clashes among supporters of Congress's Muzaffarnagar candidate Nasimuddin Siddiqui as they fought over biryani, which officials said was being served at an election meeting without permission, prompting authorities to file a police case and arrest nine people.

Eight seats in western Uttar Pradesh will vote on April 11, the opening day of the seven-phase national election. As nominations close today, Muzaffarnagar is emerging as the big ticket contest in the region.

Muzaffarnagar Riots 2013: Seven people who were found guilty of killing two men in an attack that is said to have triggered riots in western Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar in 2013 have been sentenced to life in prison today. The Muzaffarnagar riots were one of the worst communal clashes in Uttar Pradesh's history.

A sessions court in Muzaffarnagar today sentenced seven persons to death for killing a man nearly nine years ago at Harsoli in the district after a clash between two groups of people over an old dispute.

Two groups clashed with sharp weapons and sticks in Muzaffarnagar after a man's chickens entered his neighbour's house in Bhojaheri town of Uttar Pradesh, leaving 12 people injured, police said today.

One person has been arrested and search is on for other six after a minor Dalit girl was allegedly sexually harassed in Muzaffarnagar.

At least eight people were injured in clashes between two groups near Muzaffarnagar over a bull entering into a field. The bull damaged the standing crops in the field, police said today.

A video of a Dalit man being brutally beaten by a group of people is doing the rounds in Muzaffarnagar, the district in western Uttar Pradesh that was seared by clashes between Hindus and Muslims four years ago.

Past the sugarcane fields and mustard plantations along the National Highway 58, around 10 km before the entry point to Muzzaffarnagar town in western Uttar Pradesh, stands the first major security barricade. The paramilitary force personnel with automatic weapons and in their olive green fatigues seemed a bit more than the usual security bandobast...

Police personnel in Muzaffarnagar district have decided to donate their one day salary to the families of two policemen killed in the Mathura clash, a police official said.

BJP today accused Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh of doing a "cover up" of Shamli incident in which a young boy was shot dead and asked why the state police was unable to catch the culprits when they act with alacrity to find lost buffaloes of a state minister.

Eighteen people were injured when two groups clashed at a CNG filling station in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.

As many as 21 people were killed in violent protests that broke out against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Uttar Pradesh last month. While many of them died of bullet injuries, the state police have owned up to firing in just one instance in the western district of Bijnor.

Two families clashed in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar over a suspected love affair, police said on Sunday, leading to four persons being critically injured.

The seven-phased national elections begin on Thursday and Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh, which polls in the first phase, is set for a clash of heavyweights - Rashtriya Lok Dal Chief Ajit Singh andBJP leader Sanjeev Balyan, the sitting lawmaker here.

Several people were injured in clashes among supporters of Congress's Muzaffarnagar candidate Nasimuddin Siddiqui as they fought over biryani, which officials said was being served at an election meeting without permission, prompting authorities to file a police case and arrest nine people.

Eight seats in western Uttar Pradesh will vote on April 11, the opening day of the seven-phase national election. As nominations close today, Muzaffarnagar is emerging as the big ticket contest in the region.

Muzaffarnagar Riots 2013: Seven people who were found guilty of killing two men in an attack that is said to have triggered riots in western Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar in 2013 have been sentenced to life in prison today. The Muzaffarnagar riots were one of the worst communal clashes in Uttar Pradesh's history.

A sessions court in Muzaffarnagar today sentenced seven persons to death for killing a man nearly nine years ago at Harsoli in the district after a clash between two groups of people over an old dispute.

Two groups clashed with sharp weapons and sticks in Muzaffarnagar after a man's chickens entered his neighbour's house in Bhojaheri town of Uttar Pradesh, leaving 12 people injured, police said today.

One person has been arrested and search is on for other six after a minor Dalit girl was allegedly sexually harassed in Muzaffarnagar.

At least eight people were injured in clashes between two groups near Muzaffarnagar over a bull entering into a field. The bull damaged the standing crops in the field, police said today.

A video of a Dalit man being brutally beaten by a group of people is doing the rounds in Muzaffarnagar, the district in western Uttar Pradesh that was seared by clashes between Hindus and Muslims four years ago.

Past the sugarcane fields and mustard plantations along the National Highway 58, around 10 km before the entry point to Muzzaffarnagar town in western Uttar Pradesh, stands the first major security barricade. The paramilitary force personnel with automatic weapons and in their olive green fatigues seemed a bit more than the usual security bandobast...

Police personnel in Muzaffarnagar district have decided to donate their one day salary to the families of two policemen killed in the Mathura clash, a police official said.

BJP today accused Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh of doing a "cover up" of Shamli incident in which a young boy was shot dead and asked why the state police was unable to catch the culprits when they act with alacrity to find lost buffaloes of a state minister.