Alok Pandey

"Law For Those Like You": UP Hindu Woman Heckled, Muslim Husband Arrested

India News | Written by Alok Pandey | Sunday December 6, 2020

A Muslim man and his brother have been arrested by the police in western Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad after he and a 22-year-old Hindu woman tried to get their marriage registered in the district's Kanth area.

UP Cops Stop Inter-Faith Wedding, Week After New Anti-Conversion Law

India News | Written by Alok Pandey | Friday December 4, 2020

A week after a new ordinance by the Uttar Pradesh government to stop unlawful conversion became law, the police in state capital Lucknow stopped a wedding ceremony between a Hindu woman and a Muslim man, citing the ordinance.

4-Year-Old Boy, Who Fell Into Borewell In UP Yesterday, Dies

Cities | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Swati Sharma | Thursday December 3, 2020

The body of a four-year-old was recovered from a borewell in Uttar Pradesh's Mahoba district, 238 kms from Lucknow, almost 18 hours after he fell into it while playing in his village

8 Killed As Sand-Laden Truck Overturns On SUV In Uttar Pradesh

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Shatabdi Chowdhury | Wednesday December 2, 2020

At least eight people were killed after a sand-laden truck overturned on a sports utility vehicle (SUV) in the early hours of Wednesday in Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district.

"Not Jealous": Uddhav Thackeray On Yogi Adityanath's Mumbai Visit To Woo Industry

India News | Reported by Purva Chitnis and Alok Pandey, Edited by Harish Pullanoor | Wednesday December 2, 2020

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath will spend a day in Mumbai on Wednesday and is likely to meet industrialists and Bollywood personalities, seeking investment in his state - a move that may not have gone down too well with his Maharashtra counterpart, Uddhav Thackeray.

UP Journalist Set On Fire With Sanitiser Over His Reports, Claim Cops

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Harish Pullanoor | Tuesday December 1, 2020

The Uttar Pradesh police have arrested three men, including the son of a village Pradhan, for killing a 37-year-old journalist and his friend in Balrampur district, just 160 kilometres from state capital Lucknow last week.

"New Laws Don't Stop Old System": PM Defends Reforms Amid Farmer Protest

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Monday November 30, 2020

Amid farmer protests, PM Modi defends centre's laws, says farmers will have freedom to sell crop for better prices

"Anti-Conversion Law Brought In Hastily, Reconsider": Mayawati To UP Government

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Harish Pullanoor | Monday November 30, 2020

BSP President Mayawati on Monday asked Uttar Pradesh's BJP government reconsider its new anti-religious conversion ordinance ostensibly aimed at curbing cases of "love jihad". The ordinance became applicable in the state last Saturday and a case has already been filed under the new law.

Uttar Pradesh Police Files First Case Under New Law Against "Love Jihad"

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Harish Pullanoor | Sunday November 29, 2020

Bareilly Police has filed the first case under Uttar Pradesh's new anti-conversion law, accusing a Muslim man of pressuring a woman to change her religion. The man is absconding, officials at the Deorania Police station in the district informed today.

Shocking Video Shows Stray Dog Nibbling At Girl's Body In UP Hospital

India News | Written by Alok Pandey, Edited by Stela Dey | Friday November 27, 2020

A video of a stray dog nibbling at the dead body of a girl inside an Uttar Pradesh government hospital in the state's Sambhal district has caused widespread outrage.

UP Clears Order To Check Forced Conversions Amid "Love Jihad" Row

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Tuesday November 24, 2020

Amid furious nationwide debate over "love jihad" - the right-wing conspiracy theory that Muslim men enter into relationships with Hindu women to forcibly convert them - the UP government has passed an ordinance to check forced religious conversions

"We Don't See Priyanka, Salamat As Hindu-Muslim": Big Court Verdict In UP

India News | Written by Alok Pandey | Tuesday November 24, 2020

A first information report (FIR) against a Muslim man from Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar - filed by the parents of his wife who converted to Islam last year to marry him - has been cancelled by the Allahabad High Court.

UP Baby Girl, Stuffed In 3 Gunny Bags And Left To Die, Is "Much Better"

Meerut News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Vaibhav Tiwari | Tuesday November 24, 2020

A baby girl was found stuffed inside three gunny bags on the side of a road in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut, just 85 kilometres from Delhi. The infant, left to die in the cold apparently by her parents, is in hospital and recovering.

No Conspiracy, Foreign Funding In Inter-Faith Marriages, Say Kanpur Cops

India News | Written by Alok Pandey and Mariyam Alavi | Tuesday November 24, 2020

Eleven of 14 inter-faith marriages in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, involved criminality, but there is no evidence of conspiracy or foreign funding, the Kanpur police have said, contradicting claims about the so-called "love jihad". Over the past months, Chief Ministers of several BJP-ruled states have promised to bring laws to combat "love jihad" -- a te...

7 Dead, 15 Hospitalised In UP After Consuming Toxic Liquor

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Stela Dey | Saturday November 21, 2020

Six people died and at least 15 are admitted to a hospital after allegedly consuming suspected illicit liquor in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj.