Jittu Sonkar has filed three very similar complaints against different people over the years, claiming that all of them have tried to convert him to Christianity. Courts have seriously questioned his stories.

In several recent incidents, police have ordered the removal of the statue saying it had been installed illegally, without securing the mandated permission, or that it was on government land.

The Karni Sena protests were attended by senior BJP leaders including a union minister and a legislator from the ruling party in Uttar Pradesh.

Bajpai worked as a reporter for Hindi daily Dainik Jagran as its Maholi (tehsil) correspondent in Sitapur. His family says that he was murdered because of his reportage on corruption and irregularities in the purchase of land and paddy in the district.

A pistol produced as evidence in a 2007 case was planted on two men 13 years later by the police team behind the fake encounter.

'We did a silent protest with black ribbons last Friday...There was no noise, no demonstration, sloganeering or any form of uproar.'

After ABVP objected to the two questions on RSS, its parent organisation, in a political science paper, the Chaudhary Charan Singh University debarred Seema Panwar from all examination work for life.

According to documents accessed by The Wire, the 40-year-old woman claimed in a local court that the entire case on conversion was concocted due to a financial dispute.

Vatsala Mishra made an appeal for a high-level probe by an independent agency into her husband’s murder, which she alleged was a case of “targeted killing.”

The government has directed Muslims to not offer namaz on roads since last year, but this time officials are keen that this is implemented.

Several cars outside Suman’s house were damaged as the mob vandalised the property and pelted stones and bricks at it.

Adityanath and his mutt share a personal, cultural and political relationship with Nepal's Shah dynasty.

In Farrukhabad, half-a-dozen Dalits were injured after three men from the Kurmi (Other Backward Class or OBC) community allegedly fired at them with a country-made pistol while they were on their way to celebrate Holi.

Ali’s brother told reporters that police arrested him to prevent him from giving his statement to the judicial commission.

It is the corruption matter involving 2006-batch IAS officer Abhishek Prakash that has really got tongues wagging in Lucknow.

"I only have a handful of books now. I gave away most of them after the demolition,” Ali Ahmed Fatmi, former head of the Urdu department of Allahabad University, told The Wire.

The court said that the crime brought shame to humanity as well as to the legal system.

The official stand, while banning the event, was in tune with the long-held views of the RSS and its affiliates who have concertedly tried to superimpose the fable of Ghazi Mian into current politics and project him as a villainous character.

Shamim, a tailor who was an eyewitness to the incident, told The Wire that he saw a group of boys forcibly throw colour on the now deceased Sharif, while raining down slaps on him when he objected.

“This court finds that no suitable reply has been given by the ASI for denying to proceed for whitewashing of exterior part of the alleged masjid during the holy month of Ramzan," Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal said.