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The Uttar Pradesh government constituted a three-member judicial commission, chaired by former Allahabad High Court judge Devendra Kumar Arora, to investigate the violence. The commission visited Sambhal on 1 December, inspecting the affected areas to determine whether the incident was spontaneous or the result of a premeditated criminal ...
According to the first information report (FIR) lodged by the Uttar Pradesh Police, around 250,000 people showed up for the event, which had permission for at most 80,000. [12] [13] The organisers had not ensured multiple exit routes, resulting in one entry and exit respectively for a crowd of 2.5 lakh. Officials claimed that the deaths ...
Uttar Pradesh has more than 45 universities, [254] including six central universities, twenty eight state universities, eight deemed universities, two IITs in Varanasi and Kanpur, AIIMS Gorakhpur and AIIMS Rae Bareli, an IIM in Lucknow [255] [256] Founded in 1845, La Martinière Girls' College in Lucknow, stands as one of the oldest schools in ...
A Mahapanchayat (grand council) of 40 villages was held in Khera, Sardhana on 29 September 2013 to protest against the Uttar Pradesh government charging the local BJP MLA Sangeet Singh Som under the National Security Act. The crowd became violent when the police began to brandish sticks.
On 4 June, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath talked with enforcement officials via video conference and directed the officials to take strict action against those responsible for the violence. He also asked for increased deployment of police force in affected areas and regular patrolling in the sensitive areas of the district.
Uttar Pradesh Police is governed by the Department of Home and Confidential of Uttar Pradesh. [7] The Uttar Pradesh Police is headed by the Director General of Police (DGP) for the state of Uttar Pradesh, who is the highest-ranking IPS officer of the state cadre. UP Police is the first Indian state police agency to have a highway patrol Unit ...
The Lakhimpur Kheri incident [18] was a sequence of violent incidents comprising a vehicle-ramming attack, drive-by shooting [19] and a mob lynching all on 3 October 2021 at Banbirpur village near Tikunia in Lakhimpur Kheri district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Kharak Singh, a resident of Uttar Pradesh was arrested for dacoity in 1941 (pre-independence era) but was released for lack of evidence. The Uttar Pradesh Police subsequently opened a history sheet under Regulation 236 (Chapter XX) of the U. P. Police Regulations that permitted police officers to undertake: (i) secret picketing of the house or approaches to the house of suspects; (ii ...