Controversial journalist Prashant Kanojia tweeted the screenshot of a news report from 2015 in an effort to stoke caste tensions and malign the Yogi government
Samajwadi Party leader Nandu Lal has claimed that the number plate of the truck that was involved in the accident were blackened out to evade the financiers.
The victim's uncle has registered the FIR against Sengar, his brother and others over their alleged involvement in the accident. MLA Kuldeep Sengar has been lodged in Sitapur jail since last year after CBI took over the investigation in the rape case.
The Unnao rape victim was reportedly travelling in a vehicle with her lawyer and two aunts to meet her uncle in Raebareli. The car was hit by a truck in the Lalganj-Raebareli highway near Sultanpur Kheda.
"Better to leave a place where you can't even pray to your god," a villager reportedly said. The residents of this Bareilly village are living with fear facing persecution from the Muslim community.
Eight new cases of land grabbing in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh have been filed against SP leader Azam Khan for forcefully grabbing the lands of farmers for his university.
Kairana in Uttar Pradesh is a communally sensitive area which witnessed an exodus of Hindus during the Samajwadi Party government led by Akhilesh Yadav.
Yogi also issued a warning that in future, criminal proceedings could also be initiated under the Prevention of Animal husbandry Act and Animal Prevention Act.