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Monday, October 13, 2025
TopicUttar Pradesh Police

Topic: Uttar Pradesh Police

1,000 scholars, activists back UP journalist Prashant Kanojia, say arrest ‘driven by vendetta’

The signatories include scholars from IIT, JNU, IIM and premier international institutions like the universities of Oxford and Columbia.

UP cop kicks man off river bank, police calls it accident while enforcing social distancing

The video of SHO Sheshdhar Pandey which has gone viral on social media platforms shows him kicking a man standing near the Ganga.

Why was Vikas Dubey on bail despite 63 cases against him, SC asks UP govt

The Supreme Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to submit all orders that allowed Vikas Dubey to be released on bail.

With arrest of aide Guddan Trivedi, UP cops piece together Vikas Dubey’s 7-day run

Police says Guddan Trivedi, a member of the Kanpur Zila Panchayat, played a key role in helping gangster Vikas Dubey evade them for seven days.

Vikas Dubey put Kanpur on the map, but many in city hadn’t even heard of him until shootout

Vikas Dubey only controlled Chaubeypur, a tiny kasba with a population of just 4,000. And yet, he will now be remembered as 'Kanpur don'.

Killing Vikas Dubey doesn’t end crime. For that, parties must let go of control over police

India needs urgent police reforms, otherwise political parties will continue to shield Vikas Dubeys, turning them into rich politicians with no fear of law.

Brahmin pride and pain flood Facebook after Vikas Dubey’s encounter killing

For many social media users, gangster Vikas Dubey was first and foremost a Brahmin — a ‘tiger’ whose killing is just another ‘atrocity’ on the community under 'Thakur' CM Yogi Adityanath.

Silencing ‘dirty secrets’ and Vikas Dubey’s ‘mask’ tutorial

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Don Dubey encounter: A death foretold, dead men’s tales, dodgy plots, lost secrets & more…

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

‘Viral letter by slain Kanpur cop’ hints at Vikas Dubey nexus with police, probe launched

According to the letter, which is yet to be verified as authentic, police in Kanpur had watered down a case against UP history-sheeter Vikas Dubey.

On Camera

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.