Sarah Hafeez

BHU chief proctor Royana Singh’s comments irked a section of students who began protesting soon after the video was shared widely on social media since last month.

Officers supervise the cooking, youth run around for utensils, a minister and a sarpanch make rotis. On the PM’s orders, Union ministers and BJP leaders are spending nights at Dalit villages, as part of Gram Swaraj Abhiyan. But how far do just a meal and a bed go? As BJP figures that out, amidst fits and starts, The Sunday Express trails MP Bhagirath Prasad in Bhind, UP CM Yogi Adityanath in Pratapgarh

Justice J J Munir’s order delivered on Wednesday, but published Saturday, directed the UP government to issue notices to 15 policemen allegedly involved in the October 22 “encounter” in which Budhana resident Furqan was killed.

The compromise was brokered by district authorities days after Allahabad High Court dismissed Jatav’s plea asking him to approach a district administration or police to get an FIR registered against anyone who was stopping him from using the village roads.

Sheetal and Sanjay Kumar Jatav were scheduled to marry on April 20. However, a row broke out after upper caste Thakur residents objected to the wedding procession that was to be taken out through Nizampur village.

“Strongmen” reportedly stopped water supply to fields of poor Dalit farmers due to their family’s insistence on a route through the village, which is flanked by Thakur families.

Sanjay Jatav, a 27-year-old block development council member, who has been trying to get “permission” to lead a grand baraat through the lanes adjoining upper caste Thakur houses, got his way on Sunday when district authorities got the two parties to sign a compromise.

The Thakurs — a majority in Nizampur village where the bride Sheetal lives — had objected to the plans of 27-year-old Sanjay Kumar Jatav, a resident of Basai Babas village in Hathras district, to take a horse-led baraat around the village.

Allahabad High Court tells Dalit groom to approach local police

In Allahabad, while students of Allahabad University blocked a goods train at Prayag station, BSP supporters reportedly stopped a local train at Meja. Protesters in the district swelled by afternoon and many forced a mall and nearby shops to shut. Police and RAF teams were deployed to rein in protesters.

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Post protests: Officials say curfew hours relaxed informally, women students say administration sensitive.

Over the past few months, the Dalit youth, from Basai Babas village in Hathras district of western Uttar Pradesh, has shot off letters to every government office-bearer seeking help to take out his baraat through his bride’s Thakur-dominated village.

This is third such incident in the month of March alone, where statues of Ambedkar have been vandalised in UP. Earlier, Ambedkar's statue was damaged in Meerut district. 

Sources said the delegation also met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh later.

The drunk youth had barged into the girl's house and demanded she marry him in front of her parents.

Around three or four police personnel are usually deployed inside the sanctum sanctorum which sees heavy footfall from across the country.

Police personnel deployed in the sanctum sanctorum of the famous Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, are sporting civil dress — dhoti kurtas — while on crowd-control duty.

Yogi Adityanath himself had accepted that “overconfidence and an inability to understand” opponents’ strategies had cost the party the Lok Sabha bypolls.