UP: Seven held for BJP leader’s murder, one accused on the run

Firozabad Police have arrested seven people and claimed to have solved the murder of a 45-year-old BJP leader shot dead outside his shop in the Nagla Beech village in the Naarki police station area on the evening of October 16. One of the shooters is on the run, according to officials. The police on Monday said the murder of Daya Shankar Gupta was a fallout of his land dispute with his…

UP: Accountant shot at birthday party in MLC’s flat, four held

A 35-year-old Barabanki resident was shot under mysterious circumstances during a birthday party at Samajwadi Party MLC Amit Yadav’s official residence under the Hazratganj police station limits in Lucknow on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday. Flat caretaker Pankaj Singh from Shahjahanpur, Vinay Yadav from Ghazipur, and Lucknow residents Gyanendra Kumar and Aftab Alam have been…