As the death toll in Bihar's Chhapra due to the consumption of spurious liquor mounted to 72, Union Minister Nityanand Rai on Sunday accused the state government of "hiding" the actual number.
Anuj Sharma, the man who allegedly murdered his aunt over trivial quarrels, chopped her into pieces and disposed of them at different places at the Delhi-Jaipur highway used Google Maps to dump the body parts and tried to conceal facts, the police said on Sunday.
The incident has shaken the residents of the locality and now they are installing CCTV cameras for their safety. As per reports, the residents of the Lalpuria apartment of Vidyadhar Nagar area, where the heinous crime took place are installing CCTV cameras in the apartment block.
An encounter took place in Fatehgarh, Lucknow, between police personnel from Special Operations Group (SOG) and a history-sheeter, ending in the death of the accused, police informed on Sunday.
As of now according to police sources, eight body pieces of the deceased, Saroj Sharma (65) have been recovered and the accused has been sent to the police remand till December 20.
The accused included TMC MLA Manik Bhattacharya; his wife -- Satarupa Bhattacharya; his son -- Souvik Bhattacharya, who is the former President of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education and Tapas Kumar Mondal, who is the owner of a teacher training centre, and others. The two companies
Two accused riding on a motorbike opened fire at a constable in an encounter with the police on Friday morning during a checking operation of Naktiya Chowki in Cantt Police station area of Bareilly.
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan on Saturday claimed that over 200 people died in the Chapra hooch tragedy and accused the state government of hiding the actual number of deaths by "burning the bodies" without any post-mortem.
Shraddha Walkar murder accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala on Saturday told the Saket court in the national capital that he would decide after talking to his lawyer whether he wanted to pursue the bail plea or not.
The Uttarkhand Police filed a chargesheet against the three persons accused in the murder of 19-year Ankita Bhandari in September and have submitted it to the Kotdwar Judicial Court on Saturday.