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  1 Year Jail For UP Minister Who Fled From Court, Gets Immediate Bail

  A district court on Monday sentenced Uttar Pradesh minister Rakesh Sachan to one year of imprisonment in an over three-decade-old Arms Act case.

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  UP Minister 'Flees' From Court After Guilty Verdict; "Check CCTV," He Says

  A minister in Yogi Adityanath's Uttar Pradesh government has been accused of fleeing from a court in Kanpur after a guilty verdict in a 1991 case, before the quantum of sentence could be decided.

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  2 BSP Leaders Join Samajwadi Party

  Former national general secretary of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) KK Sachan and former MLA Mithilesh Katiyar on Monday joined the Samajwadi Party.

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  Indian-Origin Web Expert Jailed For 39 Months For Fraud In UK

  An Indian-origin web manager charged with siphoning off over 100,000 pounds from his boss' UK-based firm was today jailed for 39 months by a court.

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  Indian-Origin Web Expert Faces Jail For Fraud In UK

  A 31-year-old Indian-origin web manager charged with siphoning off nearly 100,000 pounds from his boss' firm is facing jail in the UK.

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  Massive Hailstorm in Mathura, 3 Killed, 150 Injured

  Three people, including a woman, were killed in two separate incidents of wall collapse caused by hailstorms in different parts of the district, while 150 others were injured, an official said on Saturday.

• Dr Sachan's wife files application against CBI closure report

  The wife of former Deputy Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Uttar Pradesh, YS Sachan, today filed a protest application in a local court against the closure report filed by CBI in the case

• CBI files closure report in Dr Sachan's death saying forensic report points to suicide

  The CBI today filed a closure report in the case related to Dr YS Sachan's death in a Lucknow jail last year, saying forensic evidence pointed to a suicide. Dr Sachan, Deputy Chief Medical Officer in the Family Welfare Department of the UP government, was found dead in the jail toilet on June 22, 2011.

• Corruption in UP's health services makes international headlines

  The first doctor to die, a senior government health administrator, was shot on his morning walk last October by two men on a motorbike. Six months later, his successor, a cardiologist, was shot to death while out on a predawn stroll. A third government doctor, accused of conspiring to murder the first two, was found dead in jail in June, lying in a...

• UP Government orders CBI to probe into murders of Chief Medical Officers

  Under intense pressure, the Mayawati government on Wednesday recommended a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the murders of two Chief Medical Officers (CMOs), two Chief Medical Officers Dr BP Singh and Dr Vinod Arya. This comes barely a week after the agency was asked to investigate the mysterious death of their colleague Y S ...

• UP govt recommends CBI inquiry into Dr Sachan's murder

  A judicial inquiry yesterday confirmed that Dr Sachan, who was found dead in a Lucknow jail last month, had been killed. Jail officials had earlier insisted that he had committed suicide. Post-mortem reports showed he had serious injuries from what appeared to be a sharp weapon.

• Sachan death: Ex-CMO AK Shukla arrested

  Nearly three weeks after Deputy Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr YS Sachan was found dead under mysterious circumstances in jail, Ex-CMO AK Shukla was arrested today in connection with alleged financial irregularities in the state health department.Former Chief Medical Officer A K Shukla was in Uttar Pradesh government's Family Welfare department. He...

• Dr Sachan's death a murder, not suicide: Judicial probe

  Nearly three weeks after Deputy Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr YS Sachan was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a Lucknow jail, a judicial probe commissioned by the Uttar Pradesh government has found that he was murdered.Dr Sachan, 52, was the Deputy CMO in the state government's Family Welfare department. After jail officials said he had...

• Uttar Pradesh CMO murder: Pistols found, shooters linked to Sachan

  Two pistols used in killing Chief Medical Officer (CMO) B P Singh have been recovered and the links of the arrested shooters with Deputy CMO Y S Sachan have been established digitally through their call records, a senior official today said.The pistols were recovered from three persons - R K Verma, Vinod Sharma and Anand Tiwari - arrested by the Sp...

• Journalist's arrest: National Human Rights Commission issues notice to UP chief secretary

  The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today issued notices to Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary and Director General of Police (DGP) regarding the arrest of a senior journalist who reported about the death of deputy Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Y S Sachan.Issuing notices, the NHRC asked the Chief Secretary and DGP to submit detailed reports in the...