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Chief Justice of India warned that the Supreme Court will impose costs on the police if similar petitions are filed in the future.
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Police used tear gas and "minor force" in the face of stone pelting by locals here on Sunday as tension escalated during a second survey of the Mughal-era mosque, claimed to be originally the site of an ancient Hindu temple.
Tension has been seething in Sambhal over the past few days after the Jama Masjid was surveyed last Tuesday on the orders of a local court following a petition that claimed that a Harihar temple stood at the site.
According to the local administration, a second survey by an "Advocate Commissioner" as part of a court-ordered examination into the disputed site began around 7 am and a crowd began gathering at the spot.
"Some miscreants came out of the crowd gathered near the site and pelted stones at the police team. The police used minor force and tear gas to bring the situation under control," Superintendent of Police Krishna Kumar Bishnoi said.
He said those who engaged in stone pelting and those who incited them will be identified and action taken against them.
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The arrests were made following a joint operation with the Uttar Pradesh Police's Special Task Force (STF)
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When police officers arrived, Vijay Verma remained firm, urging them to investigate the missing potatoes, according to Times of India. Officers documented the interaction with a brief five-second video in which Verma is seen emphasising, 'This is what needs to be investigated.'
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Gulzar Sheikh was apprehended from his home in Khandrauli, Uttar Pradesh, following a complaint about his activities on railway tracks. The arrest was confirmed by BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla.
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Superintendent of Police Elamaran G said that head constable Vinay Singh was on duty when the incident happened.
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When the boy's father Sanjay Dubey, an e-rickshaw driver, saw him on the ADG's seat, he was speechless.
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Pictures and videos of such posters, allegedly put up by the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and its youth wing, Bajrang Dal, also surfaced on social media platforms.
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Vandana Mishra died on Friday evening allegedly after being stuck in traffic on the Govindpuri bridge during the president's visit while she was being taken to a private hospital in Kakadev.
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Manish Maheshwari, the MD of Twitter India has been asked to report to the Loni Police Station and record his statement within seven days.
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Dr Kafeel Khan, who hit the headlines after the 2017 tragedy at the BRD Medical College, has challenged the Uttar Pradesh government several times over the years.
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The Lucknow Bench of Justices Rajan Roy and Pankaj Mithal asked Prashant Kumar, Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) if if he would have let his daughter be cremated in a similar way.
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Asking the officers to impose fines, the DGP had ordered police officers to ensure the use of combined harvesting machines along with straw reaper so that no stubble is left behind.
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After carrying out the investigation, the Adampur Police had arrested three persons, including the woman’s father and brother, and charged them with murder. They had even recovered the missing woman’s clothes and the “murder weapon” – a gun.
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A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said it would not allow the petitioners, who had referred to statements given by Gupta to the media for seeking his removal, to cast aspersions on the member of inquiry commission.
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Although Agra SSP Bablu Kumar has said “prima facie the BJP leader knew what was happening”, the politician has claimed the Agra police is trying to frame him.
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Dubey succumbed to the injuries sustained in a police encounter in the Sachendi area on the outskirts of Kanpur on July 10.
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The arrests were made on charges of criminal conspiracy and helping Dubey in his nefarious design by providing him cash and cartridges hours before the Bikru village ambush, in which eight police personnel were killed and seven others, including a civilian, left seriously injured, the police said in a statement issued here.
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A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said it may consider appointing a committee headed by a former judge to probe the encounters of Dubey and his aides as also the killing of eight Uttar Pradesh policemen by the gangster.
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In December 2019, the UP Police had taken to Twitter to brag about the ‘thok do’ policy and written that 5,178 encounters had taken place in the state in the past two years, in which 103 criminals died and another 1,859 sustained injuries
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The apex court has from time to time issued a slew of directives on the procedure to be followed while handcuffing an undertrial, maintaining that the insurance against escape does not compulsorily require handcuffing.
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The plea has also sought registration of an FIR and an apex court monitored probe by the CBI into the encounter of five co-accused, who were alleged to be associated with Dubey in the killing of eight policemen last week.
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Dubey was killed in an encounter after a police vehicle carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur met with an accident and he tried to escape from the spot, police said.
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IG, Civil Defence, Amitabh Thakur, said it was possible that Dubey might get killed in an encounter while trying to escape from police custody, thus closing the gangster's chapter. But this episode had brought to light the muck in UP police and there was a need to take action against those found guilty, he said.
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She also accused the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh of "complete failure" in handling the Kanpur ambush case and arresting Dubey, the main accused who fled the state and was arrested from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday morning.
