"A 21-year-old Komal Kashyap was murdered late at night. Her body was found in the Kukrail forest in the capital Lucknow metropolitan area. The girl was strangled to death with her dupatta. The accused fled from the spot after leaving her body there," a police official said.
A man has been shot dead in the Salauna village of Thana Partapur in Meerut after an argument erupted over giving side on the way when three to four youths on a buggy full of straw where passing by, the police said.
"Crime has reached its peak in UP and the morale of the criminals is high. When someone can be killed openly despite being surrounded by a security cordon, one can imagine the state of the general public. Due to this (alleged encounter killings), an ambience of fear is being created among
Officials of Noida Police on Thursday said that they have launched a probe after they found human body parts, afloat in a drain, in the industrial area of the city.
It said that the wires of the Umesh Pal murder case are also connected in one way or the other with the former BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case in Prayagraj 18 years ago.
The four were arrested from the Purani Para Police Chowki area under the Para Police station in Lucknow on Tuesday. Several documents and fake certificates and a mobile phone were also recovered from them.
Two pistols, three magazines, four hollow cartridges and eight live cartridges were recovered from the accused during checking at the Bichpuri post. He was arrested following an encounter in which he was injured.