scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicUttar Pradesh Police

Topic: Uttar Pradesh Police

Call from police station tipped off Vikas Dubey hours before raid, aide tells probe officers

Eight policemen were killed and seven others were injured when they had gone to arrest wanted criminal Vikas Dubey in Kanpur on Thursday.

UP cop caught masturbating in front of mother-daughter duo arrested, dismissed from service

Inspector Bhishmpal Singh Yadav was recorded by a woman complainant when she visited the police station along with her daughter to lodge a complaint on 22 June.

Sadhus scolded 25-yr-old for stealing tongs, he killed them under bhang influence: UP Police

The two sadhus were killed inside a Bulandshahr temple Monday night. Police rules out 'communal angle', says accused confessed to crime.

Supreme Court bench recuses from hearing plea against Chinmayanand’s bail in rape case

Allahabad High Court on 3 February granted bail to Chinmayanand in the case of sexual exploitation of a female law student.

‘No proof against MLA’ — UP Police gives clean chit to BJP leader, 4 sons in gang-rape case

BJP MLA Ravindra Nath Tripathi's nephew Sandeep Tiwari has been arrested. The MLA and six of his family members were booked in a gang-rape case.

‘Assassin’ hurt in chase day after police blame sour marriage for UP Hindutva leader murder

Ranjeet Bachchan's wife Smriti Srivastava has confessed to the murder, accusing him of violence & stalling their divorce, police say.

36 hrs since woman’s naked body found in UP’s Bahraich with ‘acid-burnt’ face, but no leads

Villagers who found the body Saturday morning say it could be sexual assault & murder. Police say post-mortem will be conducted 72 hours after body being found.

What’s inside UP Police’s intel reports on Yogi Adityanath’s Hindu Yuva Vahini

I looked at annual reports of UP Police’s intelligence units on the Hindu outfit that Adityanath formed in 2002. Here's what officers wrote over the years.

Imran Khan tweets old Dhaka video as ‘police atrocities in UP’, deletes and gets slammed

Khan’s tweets drew sharp reactions from diplomacy experts as well as India’s MEA, whose spokesperson used the hashtag #Oldhabitsdiehard to criticise him.

UP Congress leader goes to police against Sambit Patra and Tarek Fatah for ‘fake video’

Pakistani-Canadian author Tarek Fatah & BJP’s Sambit Patra tweeted a video, claiming Congress leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui is ‘rejecting Indian laws for Islam’.

On Camera

India’s think tanks double up as lobbyists, give no disclosures. Hurt policymaking

Many 'independent' reports, intended to shape policies, are sponsored by industry groups or entities with deep pockets and vested interests. This process must become transparent.

India may cancel green projects struggling to find clients

While the move could free up grid capacity struggling to keep up with rapid renewable rollout, it would be a major setback for green ambitions. India aims to double clean power capacity to 500 gigawatts by the end of the decade.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.