Muzaffarnagar

A 38-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by consuming poisonous substance after his wife refused to live with him, an official said today.

He made light of the Ganga being declared a "living entity", debated BJP's promise of building a Ram Mandir and wondered why the Centre was not withdrawing the Haj subsidy given to Air India.

A 30-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh was allegedly gang-raped by four men in front of her husband and their three-month-old baby, the police said. They stopped them, snatched the baby, beat up the man and dragged the woman to a sugarcane field.

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped by three men in neighbouring Shamli district, police said.

A 26-year-old woman, an eyewitness to her sister's murder, was killed after her throat was allegedly slit in a village in Shamli district, police said today.

A 35-year-old woman was hospitalised after she suffered injuries allegedly in an attack by her ex-husband in Budhana town in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said today.

A 16-year-old girl, who allegedly set herself on fire after she being sexually assaulted by two persons in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, died in a hospital on Saturday. One of the accused has been arrested, police said.

On Monday evening, Naseem Ahmed went out to buy a birthday cake for his baby boy, not knowing he would not live to see the party. On his way back with the cake, the 23-year-old was attacked at his village in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, allegedly by the family of his Hindu wife.

A newly married couple from Chennai was shot at by two bike-borne men on National Highway-58 in Uttar Pradesh yesterday. The couple were touring North India and had hired Royal Enfield bikes to visit Haridwar from Delhi. Aditya Kumar and Vijaya Lakshmi, residents of Ramapuram in Chennai, were returning from Haridwar when they were shot at in Muzaffarnagar. The bikers fled the spot.

A Delhi-based chartered accountant, who had been missing for the past four days, allegedly ended his life by jumping in front of a moving train near Rashu Vihar railway crossing in Muzaffarnagar, police said today.

Another complaint has been filed against lawyer-politician Prashant Bhushan for hurting religious sentiments over his "offensive" remarks against Lord Krishna. The case was registered yesterday at the Civil Lines police station in Muzaffarnagar on the basis of a complaint by Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha president Yogendra Verma, police said.

Specs of blood in a bathroom at a residential school in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar made the warden so furious that she allegedly forced some 70 girls to strip to check who was menstruating. The girls were allegedly also made to sit in the classroom naked.

An eyewitness in a murder case was killed just three days after his security was withdrawn in the case.Rishipal, who was an eyewitness in the 2012 murder of brother of a municipality chairman, was shot dead by five men in Sisoli town in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar.

A 22-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train near Bamanheri railway station in Muzaffarnagar, police said today.

A 30-year-old man was shot at allegedly by a gram pradhan and three others who also thrashed the victim's family members after accusing them of stealing a radish, police said today.