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Nearly six months before suspected Kuki-Zo insurgents attacked villages and police outposts in Manipur's Jiribam district on Saturday, the state government had written three times to the Director General of Police (DGP) asking to step up security.

A young Muslim teen in west Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor, 430 km from Lucknow, has spent over 20 days in jail after an incident last month where he and a 16-year-old Hindu girl, walking home from a friend's birthday event, were ambushed, harassed and taken to a police station. The matter escalated to a case being filed under the state's controversial new...

Two teenagers walking home from a friend's birthday party in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor were ambushed, harassed and taken to a police station in an incident that ended up being filed as a case of "love jihad" under a controversial new anti-conversion law.

More than three months since the Bikru village ambush, in which eight policemen including a deputy SP were killed, the Kanpur police has invoked the Gangsters Act against 30 of aides of gangster Vikas Dubey arrested in connection with the case.

An aide of the dead gangster Vikas Dubey has been arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh Police from Chitrakoot district, days after the dramatic surrender of another associate and accused of the Kanpur ambush in which eight policemen were killed, officials said on Tuesday.

An accused of the Kanpur ambush during which eight policemen were killed by henchmen of killed gangster Vikas Dubey surrendered before the Chaubepur police on Saturday in a dramatic manner, wearing a confession placard and seeking forgiveness for the crime.

A SIT set up to enquire into the Kanpur ambush in which eight policemen were killed by Vikas Dubey and his henchmen, has sought information from the people on the gangster's criminal antecedents, including his alleged connivance with various authorities.

The two remaining police weapons, among those looted in the Kanpur ambush, were recovered after an aide of killed gangster Vikas Dubey, Shashikant, was arrested early Tuesday morning. The recoveries were made in Dubey's village Bikru based on information given by Shashikant, whose arrest carried a reward of Rs 50,000. He is one of the 21 named accu...

Justice (retired) Shashi Kant Agarwal, heading the one-member judicial commission probing the Kanpur ambush and encounter of killed gangster Vikas Dubey, on Monday visited Bikru village to probe the attack in which eight policemen had died.

The Kanpur police claimed on Saturday that an associate of gangster Vikas Dubey who was arrested in Maharashtra was "neither wanted nor named" in the ambush case in which eight police personnel were killed.

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) will probe gangster Vikas Dubey's rise in the world of crime and how he managed to kill eight policemen in an ambush in his native village earlier this month, the Uttar Pradesh government said on Saturday.

The family of a senior police officer who was killed in an ambush by gangster Vikas Dubey and his men has called for action against "those who helped him thrive and protected him" in Uttar Pradesh. Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter after a road accident this morning while being taken to Kanpur from Madhya Pradesh, where he was arrested yesterd...

Vikas Dubey Arrest: One of the three UP Police vehicles escorting gangster Vikas Dubey from Ujjain to Kanpur overturns on highway in Kanpur

The wife and son of Vikas Dubey -- the arch-criminal responsible for ambushing the police in Kanpur last week -- have been taken for questioning, sources said. The two were taken in custody from Lucknow this evening -- hours after Vikas Dubey was caught from Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.

A relative of DSP Devendra Mishra, who was among the eight killed in the Kanpur ambush, on Thursday questioned the arrest of gangster Vikas Dubey, claiming it was a "well-planned surrender" and the gangster was "saved from death".

Nearly six months before suspected Kuki-Zo insurgents attacked villages and police outposts in Manipur's Jiribam district on Saturday, the state government had written three times to the Director General of Police (DGP) asking to step up security.

A young Muslim teen in west Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor, 430 km from Lucknow, has spent over 20 days in jail after an incident last month where he and a 16-year-old Hindu girl, walking home from a friend's birthday event, were ambushed, harassed and taken to a police station. The matter escalated to a case being filed under the state's controversial new...

Two teenagers walking home from a friend's birthday party in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor were ambushed, harassed and taken to a police station in an incident that ended up being filed as a case of "love jihad" under a controversial new anti-conversion law.

More than three months since the Bikru village ambush, in which eight policemen including a deputy SP were killed, the Kanpur police has invoked the Gangsters Act against 30 of aides of gangster Vikas Dubey arrested in connection with the case.

An aide of the dead gangster Vikas Dubey has been arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh Police from Chitrakoot district, days after the dramatic surrender of another associate and accused of the Kanpur ambush in which eight policemen were killed, officials said on Tuesday.

An accused of the Kanpur ambush during which eight policemen were killed by henchmen of killed gangster Vikas Dubey surrendered before the Chaubepur police on Saturday in a dramatic manner, wearing a confession placard and seeking forgiveness for the crime.

A SIT set up to enquire into the Kanpur ambush in which eight policemen were killed by Vikas Dubey and his henchmen, has sought information from the people on the gangster's criminal antecedents, including his alleged connivance with various authorities.

The two remaining police weapons, among those looted in the Kanpur ambush, were recovered after an aide of killed gangster Vikas Dubey, Shashikant, was arrested early Tuesday morning. The recoveries were made in Dubey's village Bikru based on information given by Shashikant, whose arrest carried a reward of Rs 50,000. He is one of the 21 named accu...

Justice (retired) Shashi Kant Agarwal, heading the one-member judicial commission probing the Kanpur ambush and encounter of killed gangster Vikas Dubey, on Monday visited Bikru village to probe the attack in which eight policemen had died.

The Kanpur police claimed on Saturday that an associate of gangster Vikas Dubey who was arrested in Maharashtra was "neither wanted nor named" in the ambush case in which eight police personnel were killed.

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) will probe gangster Vikas Dubey's rise in the world of crime and how he managed to kill eight policemen in an ambush in his native village earlier this month, the Uttar Pradesh government said on Saturday.

The family of a senior police officer who was killed in an ambush by gangster Vikas Dubey and his men has called for action against "those who helped him thrive and protected him" in Uttar Pradesh. Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter after a road accident this morning while being taken to Kanpur from Madhya Pradesh, where he was arrested yesterd...

Vikas Dubey Arrest: One of the three UP Police vehicles escorting gangster Vikas Dubey from Ujjain to Kanpur overturns on highway in Kanpur

The wife and son of Vikas Dubey -- the arch-criminal responsible for ambushing the police in Kanpur last week -- have been taken for questioning, sources said. The two were taken in custody from Lucknow this evening -- hours after Vikas Dubey was caught from Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.

A relative of DSP Devendra Mishra, who was among the eight killed in the Kanpur ambush, on Thursday questioned the arrest of gangster Vikas Dubey, claiming it was a "well-planned surrender" and the gangster was "saved from death".