A special court in Ahmedabad on Thursday acquitted all the accused, including BJP MLA Maya Kodnani, in the 2002 post-Godhra riots, Naroda Gam case, which killed 11 people from the minority community.
Three persons were killed while another was injured when a pick-up van collided with a truck Moradabad-Farrukhabad highway in Badaun district on Thursday morning.
Eleven persons were killed in communal violence in Naroda Gam area of Ahmedabad city on February 28, 2002, during a 'bandh' called to protest the Godhra train burning a day before in which 58 passengers, returning from Ayodhya, were killed.
The Pakistani pilgrims were travelling to Riyadh from Medina after performing Umrah when they met with an unfortunate accident near the Al-Qasim area, as per ARY News.
Days after Atiq Ahmed's son Asad was killed in an encounter in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi, the mafia-turned-politician and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were killed on Saturday while being taken for a medical examination in Prayagraj.
The police spokesperson stated that the operation against the bandits is still underway in full swing and in the past 11 days, three "bandits" were arrested and 18 have been arrested so far.
Four police officials including a station officer of Shahganj in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj were suspended for 'carelessness' while taking gangsters Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf for a medical checkup on April 15 night when they were killed, police said on Wednesday.
Days after gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were killed while in police custody in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said if ruling forces inculcate the habit of ignoring the Constitution and law, the country will
"The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, India has taken cognizance of complaints alleging that two brothers Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf were killed by miscreants in police custody in Prayagraj district of Uttar Pradesh on April 15, 2023," NHRC said in a statement.
A huge landslide in northwestern Pakistan killed at least two people, wounded several others and buried over 20 vehicles, according to Voice of America (VoA).