A 14-year-old boy in Gorakhpur, the stronghold of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath, was allegedly kidnapped and killed after a ransom of Rs 1 crore had been demanded from his father who had rec...

In the late 80s, I got to know a lawyer in London. A British Gujarati born in East Africa, R, in his early 30s then, was quietly making a name for himself in the United Kingdom’s legal and civil...

Kanpur paan shop owner Chaman Lal Yadav, who claims to have paid a Rs 30-lakh ransom under police guidance after the kidnappers had killed his son Sanjeet, has demanded a CBI probe into police collusi...

Police supervised the payment of a Rs 30-lakh ransom to kidnappers 17 days after the hostage had been killed, the victim’s family said on Friday, alleging the cops were in cahoots with the crimi...

The Uttar Pradesh police have said gangster Vikas Dubey's close aide Prabhat Mishra alias Kartikey, who was killed as he attempted to flee from police custody while being taken to Kanpur from Fari...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the name of its former judge B.S. Chauhan as head of the inquiry commission to probe gangster Vikas Dubey’s encounter killing by Uttar Pradesh police. The...

The Supreme Court on Friday decided on a judicial inquiry into Uttar Pradesh police’s killing of Vikas Dubey but declared itself “appalled” that a gangster accused in more than 65 se...

The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday told the Supreme Court that gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in a genuine encounter as the policemen accompanying him from Ujjain had no other option but to fire ...

The Uttar Pradesh government has constituted a single-member commission to probe the massacre of eight policemen in Kanpur Rural on July 3 and six police encounters, including that which killed gang l...

Reporters’ relentless queries on Friday evening prompted Vikas Dubey’s father and wife to cry out in despair that the police had done right by killing the gangster in an encounter. &ldquo...