The half-burnt body of a 23-year-old woman, who had been missing for two days, was found in Sohjani Umerpur village in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said Sunday.
Two persons who were among the five men accused of raping a 17-year-old Dalit girl in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district have been arrested, the police said Tuesday.
With the model code of conduct coming into effect after the announcements of Lok Sabha poll schedule, the district authorities have started to remove hoardings advertising central and state government schemes, officials said Monday.
Uttar Pradesh police on Friday, filed a chargesheet against a woman and her boyfriend in connection with the murder of her 12-year-old sister in Muzzafarnagar last month, officials said.
The superintendent of an exam centre and 14 invigilators are among 17 people arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar for allegedly aiding mass copying during Class 12th Physics paper, authorities have said.
Over 100 cows were reported to have died in some villages in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar over two days following which an inquiry was ordered in the incident, officials said on Friday.
A local court on Monday sentenced four men to 10 years in jail for abducting and raping a 15-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district in 2009.
Police have pulled out the body of a 50-year-old woman from the funeral pyre at a village and booked the husband and four others suspecting foul play behind her death.
