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BJP’s Hathras MP Rajveer Diler dies of heart attack

The BJP’s Lok Sabha MP from Hathras, Rajveer Singh Diler, died of a heart attack.

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SP declares candidates in six U.P. seats, leaves Bhadohi for Trinamool Congress

2024 Lok Sabha Polls: Samajwadi Party declares candidates for Bijnor, Aligarh, Nagina, Lalganj, Meerut and Hathras seats from Uttar Pradesh; leaves Bhadohi for Trinamool Congress

The Hindu

Bureaucracy: 15 IPS officers shifted in Uttar Pradesh

The Yogi Government of Uttar Pradesh has transferred 15 IPS officers in the state, reshuffling Superintendents of Police (SP) in three districts. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Venugopal demands caste census, separate quota for OBC women within 33% reservation

Congress MP K.C. Venugopal demands caste census and separate OBC reservation for women in 33% quota. Criticizes BJP govt. for poor record on women safety, cites Unnao, Kathua, Manipur, Hathras incidents. Says Centre allocated only ₹156 cr of ₹848 cr budget for Beti Bachao Beti Padhao. Urges BJP to conduct…

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Uttar Pradesh: 5 killed, over dozen injured after tractor-trolley rams into dumper in Hathras

The police said that the Hathras occupants of the tractor-trolley were pilgrims on their way from Jalesar to Goverdhan. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Hathras case: SC dismisses UP govt's plea against HC order to provide job to victim's family member

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by the Uttar Pradesh government challenging the Allahabad High Court's order to consider giving a job to a family member of the Hathras victim and to relocate the family from Hathras. Read further on Dynamite News:

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‘If reality, she would have told reporters’: Why Hathras verdict set aside victim’s dying declaration

“If in reality, the incident was caused by those four persons and the victim had been raped, then she would have told the reporters about the accused as well as the rape.”

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Court drops rape charges in Hathras case. Here’s what lawyers think

A special court in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday acquitted three persons and convicted one in the 2020 Hathras rape and murder case.

Newslaundry

Newslaundry wins two Laadli awards for reportage on Hathras, Yati Narsinghanand

The year is winding down, journalists are looking back at their work, and Newslaundry has received two more accolades for its journalism.

Newslaundry

Uttar Pradesh to ban placing dead bodies on road

The law came into force after the Hathras episode when the victim was cremated by the district officials without the family’s consent

The Hindu

Siddique Kappan's bail plea hearing in PMLA case deferred to September 29

He was arrested while he was on his way to Hathras where a Dalit girl was allegedly raped and later found dead

The Hindu

Jailed Indian journalist gets bail almost two years after arrest

Muslim journalist Siddique Kappan arrested while covering gang-rape and killing of Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh

The Guardian - UK

India journalist Siddique Kappan gets bail after nearly two years

Siddique Kappan was arrested in October 2020 when he was on his way to report gang rape and death of a Dalit teenager.

Al Jazeera

Supreme Court grants bail to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan

“Every person has a right to free expression,” Supreme Court said; Kappan has been in custody for nearly two years under the UAPA

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After forcible cremation of Hathras victim, UP proposes new guidelines for the future

Over 600 days after the UP police forcibly cremated the body of Asha, a Dalit woman in Hathras, the state government has proposed guidelines for such cremations to ensure the maintenance of “law and order”.

Newslaundry

A pamphlet on protest precautions and a PFI ‘nexus’: Why UP is opposing Siddique Kappan’s bail

That Siddique Kappan was carrying a pamphlet on how to protect oneself during a protest – with tips like “wear comfortable clothes” and “drink glucose” – is proof for the Uttar Pradesh government that he was educating himself on “Rioting 101”.

Newslaundry

‘Conspiracy to spread terror’: UP police files affidavit in SC opposing Siddique Kappan’s bail plea

The Uttar Pradesh police has opposed journalist Siddique Kappan's bail plea on grounds that he is purportedly “part of the larger conspiracy...to foment religious discord and spread terror in the country”.

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‘Beaten for knowing Arabic and studying at Jamia’: Siddique Kappan’s wife on his 700 days in jail

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Cab driver, who took journalist Siddique Kappan to Hathras, gets bail after 22 months

Court found that prima facie the allegations against him were not true

Newslaundry

Reporters Without Orders Ep 233: Ramdev’s life and times, Yogi's unfulfilled promises to Hathras rape victim’s kin

Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry’s Nidhi Suresh and Basant Kumar.

The Hindu

India at 75 | A look at important Partition literature: Booker-winning Tomb of Sand, Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, and others

All of these works use compelling metaphors for the state of relations between India and Pakistan

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Siddique Kappan denied bail by Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Siddique Kappan. The journalist from Kerala is facing charges under the anti-terror law UAPA over an alleged conspiracy related to the Hathras gangrape and murder case.

The Hindu

Class 2 student left locked in classroom in U.P.’s Hathras; 10 school staffers suspended

Teachers and school staff, not noticing the child, locked the school and left

Dynamite News

UP: 6 Kanwar devotees dead after truck mows down in Hathras

Six people died and one has been seriously injured after six others devotees of Kanwar Yatra were mowed down by a truck around 2.15 am Saturday, near Sadabad Police Station in Hathras. Read more on Dynamite News:

The Hindu

Five FIRs still pending against Mohammed Zubair in U.P.

One of the FIRs against him has been registered for the rioting in Hathras on June 10 after the Friday namaz but does not mention Zubair, his work or social media activity

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