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LUCKNOW: Founder of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party-Lohia (PSP-L), Shivpal Yadav, on Monday managed to dodge the police cordon outside his house to leave for Lakhimpur Kheri, where eight people died in violence on Sunday. However, the police swung into action and intercepted him in Jankipuram where he was detained with his supporters. He was brought to the police lines and let off later in the evening. Talking to media persons, Shivpal described the Lakhimpur Kheri case as "the most saddening and brutal incidents of independent India". "Farmers are being made to pay with their lives for raising voice against farm laws. It has never happened before in independent India," Shivpal said. The PSP-L chief demanded that the Union minister of state for home Ajay Mishra Teni, whose son Ashish Mishra allegedly led the convoy of cars that crushed four farmers to death, must resign from his post immediately. "The minister’s son should be arrested and the kin of the deceased be given ex gratia of Rs 1 crore and a government job. A judicial probe by a sitting high court judge should be ordered and stringent action be initiated against people responsible for the farmers’ death," he said. Source link Read the full article

LUCKNOW: Two tricksters who posed as treasury officials to dupe retired government officials were arrested by Uttar Pradesh Cyber cell on Sunday. Five members of their gang are still at large. The duo identified as Pramod Mandal and Mantu Kumar Mandal had duped several persons in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Rajasthan. Cyber cell sleuths said that in UP alone the fraudsters had duped innocents of Rs 5 crore in the last one year. They were arrested from Kolkata in West Bengal by cyber cell on Saturday night. Cops also recovered different SIM cards, bank ATMs, Bluetooth sound systems, from their possession. Pramod belonged to Dumka in Jharkhand, and Mantu was from Dhanbad in the same district. The cyber cell of the UP police got active after it received complaints from retired police pensioners of being fleeced. Pensioner Chhote Lal was duped of Rs 11 lakh, while Ram Lakhan Chaudhary of Rs 10 lakh, and Udayveer Singh of Rs 10 lakh were all defrauded in a span of just three months. It was not just police personnel who were duped but also retired officials from other departments. Several similar complaints were reported in the district cyber cell units of Lucknow, Hardoi. In Lucknow, a retired secretariat official was defrauded of Rs 53 lakh. Additional Director General of UP Cyber Cell, Ram Kumar, said Pramod Mandal was the mastermind who had 36 cases of duping retired government officials. Kumar also said the arrested duo used to call their targets while impersonating themselves as treasury officer or officer looking for the pension and other allowances that a retired employee used to get from the department. “In this way they easily tricked the target and used it to secure the password of their ATM or details of the bank account. Thereafter, the money was transferred in e-wallets which they encashed,” said Kumar. Another police official privy to the probe said that each member in the gang is assigned a particular work like getting fake bank accounts opened, procuring fake SIM cards, making calls to victims, informing about police movement and for bank work to encash the money obtained through fraud. They were given the share of money as per the importance of their work. Police said Pramod had formed a gang employing several of his kin and his distant relatives. Source link Read the full article

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said that the effective implementation of the ambitious Ujjawala scheme has led to doubling the number of LPG connections in UP in the past seven years of BJP rule at the Centre. He said that the state had only 1.47 crore LPG connections until 2014, which has grown to 3.25 crore in 2021. Speaking at the launch of second phase of Ujjwala scheme in Mahoba, entailing free gas connection to the low-income families, Yogi said that the increased LPG coverage led to lesser consumption of kerosene which helped the state government save Rs 15 crore as revenue in 2020-21. This saving is expected to touch a mark of Rs 22 crore in the current fiscal, he said. “People used to struggle to get gas connections before 2014. They were left to bear the pollution which affected their health,” he said, lauding the Centre for meeting the target of providing 8 crore LPG connections under phase-1 odf the scheme seven months before the schedule deadline of September 2019. This included 1.5 crore beneficiaries in UP as well. Yogi said that the beneficiaries of Ujjawala scheme were provided free LPG cylinders for six month free of cost during the Corona pandemic, for which the state government bore a cost of more than Rs 1,827 crore. “It is a key step and a kind of gift from PM Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre for women dignity,” he said. The CM said that besides Ujjawala -- under which 1.5 connections were provided since the launch of the scheme in 2016 – the state government took a number of steps including construction of 2.61 crore toilets under Swachh Bharat Mission for safeguarding the dignity of women. He also mentioned the mass marriage of poor girls, Kanya Sumangala scheme for education of girls, and pension for destitute women. The CM also announced that the construction of the 296-km Bundelkhand Expressway is 70% complete and the project will be fully constructed by November this year. The foundation stone of the project was laid by PM Modi in Chitrakoot in February 2020. Likewise, he said, the process of setting up of Defence Corridors in Chitrakoot and Jhansi has been fast tracked. In Jhansi and Chitrakoot, Yogi said, a land bank of 3,000 acres and 150 acres, respectively, has been created for investment purposes. Yogi also announced that the prestigious `Har Ghar Nal’ scheme envisaging drinking water supply to domestic households in Bundelkhand region under Jal Jeevan Mission will be completed by December this year. Likewise the development of airports in Chitrakoot and Lalitpur are being taken on war footing. Source link Read the full article

BARABANKI: Two people were arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district with morphine worth over Rs 2 crore in the international market, police said on Tuesday. The arrests were made at the Chowkaghat railway crossing on Barabanki-Bahraich road on Monday night based on intelligence inputs, they said. A total of 2.25 kg of morphine, whose value in the international market is estimated to be Rs 2.25 crore was seized from the accused, police said, adding Rs 2.10 lakh cash and a luxury car were also recovered from their possession. A joint team of Ramnagar Police and the Narcotics Control Bureau arrested Mohd Imran and Wahid Ali, both residents of Barabanki, police said. A case has been lodged against the two under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, they added. The accused told police during interrogation that they used to smuggle the contraband to Gonda, Bahraich and Balrampur and named one Taj Mohammad of Bansa as the main drug smuggler, police said. Barabanki SP Yamuna Prasad has announced a cash prize of Rs 20,000 for the police team making the arrests, they added. Source link Read the full article