Kanpur Stone Pelting

One group opposed the shutdown call by the other group, leading to clashes involving incidents of stone-pelting. The police had to fire tear gas shells to disperse the crowd and prevent further violence.

Police personnel in plain clothes, who were taking a notorious criminal in an unmarked jeep, were assaulted by locals after they mistook them for kidnappers, police said. The incident took place yesterday in Dabauli locality in theGovindnagar area. The criminal escaped while people pelted stones at the jeep, which was later set on fire by the loca...

An under trial lodged in Ramabai Nagar district jail on Friday died under mysterious circumstances, leading to protests by prisoners who pelted stones and took some inmates and three jail officials hostage.

One group opposed the shutdown call by the other group, leading to clashes involving incidents of stone-pelting. The police had to fire tear gas shells to disperse the crowd and prevent further violence.

Police personnel in plain clothes, who were taking a notorious criminal in an unmarked jeep, were assaulted by locals after they mistook them for kidnappers, police said. The incident took place yesterday in Dabauli locality in theGovindnagar area. The criminal escaped while people pelted stones at the jeep, which was later set on fire by the loca...

An under trial lodged in Ramabai Nagar district jail on Friday died under mysterious circumstances, leading to protests by prisoners who pelted stones and took some inmates and three jail officials hostage.