Meerut News

A 32-year-old woman, with her swollen eyes approached the Meerut police to file a case against her husband, alleging that she was being regularly beaten like "animals" by him for the past few years on pretext of dowry.

A woman, who was "sold" for Rs 10,000 and raped by people for whom she was forced to work as domestic help, set herself on fire after Uttar Pradesh police officials allegedly refused to register her complaint, according to the Delhi Commission for Women.

A Meerut man has been arrested after he allegedly shot dead a woman for rejecting his advances. The woman's sister was also critically injured when the accused, identified as Deepak, allegedly opened fire inside her house.

A dreaded criminal, Badan Singh, serving life sentence, escaped on Thursday after allegedly entertaining police personnel in a hotel where alcohol was served. Six policemen and three others were arrested said the police at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh.

A woman patient, with breathing problem, was allegedly gang-raped by a group of hospital staff in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut on Sunday. Four men and a woman have been detained and being probed for their role in the case, said the police.

Over 150 shanties were burnt down and several vehicles damaged by mob that went on a rampageafter local authorities tried to remove encroachments in Meerut's Sadar Bazar area

Unidentified, armed criminals stormed into a branch of the Manappuram Finance Company here on Thursday and fled with 15 kg of gold bars, biscuits, and coins after threatening the employees there, police said.

The central government has approved the construction of a massive project worth Rs 30,274 crore in the national capital region. The project aims to construct and setup the Regional Rapid Transport System or RRTS, which will connect the national capital with Meerut, through Ghaziabad.

Awareness on online scams saved a Uttar Pradesh lawmaker from being cheated after he received a call from a man posing as an State Bank of India (SBI) employee. The man asked for the details of the leader's salary account with the bank, which he refused to provide.

The Meerut district police are investigating a charge that a boy lit a firecracker after putting it in the mouth of a three-old-girl, seriously injuring her.

A three-year-old girl was critically wounded in Uttar Pradesh'sMeerut when a boy put a fire cracker in her mouth and lit it a day before Diwali, police said on Wednesday. The girl was rushed to a nearby medical facility where her condition is described as serious.

Dipti Chaudhary was charged with rash and negligent driving and misbehaving in a public place.

A woman advocate and her "drunk" friend - a cop - who was allegedly thrashed by a BJP councillor for misbehaving at his restaurant by pointing a pistol at his staff, landed in another controversy on Wednesday after she drove her car rashly, hitting at least four vehicles in Meerut.

The policeman, in uniform, had accompanied a woman friend to a restaurant in Meerut when they reportedly had an argument with the staff over a delay in delivery of their order. In a cellphone video of the incident, shot by one of the staff members, the woman, a lawyer, can be seen holding a pistol, abusing and threatening Manish Kumar, the owner.

The villagers informed the police, after which a forensic team reached the spot for investigation.