Meerut: An Army Major has been accused of cutting his wife's finger demanding dowry from her in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district.The Major's wife, who is in her early 30s, approached police with the finger injury and alleged that her husband has been harassing her "mentally and physically" for dowry since 2014 when they got married. The couple have a five-year-old son.The accused Major is posted with the Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers at 510 Army Base in Meerut, Chandrakant Meena,&nbsp;Meerut Additional Superintendent of Police, said that orders have been issued to book the accused for domestic abuse and press dowry harassment charges as well.D.S. Rawat, Station House Officer at Sadar Bazaar police station, Meerut, said that an FIR has already been lodged in the matter.&nbsp;He, however, refused to divulge the IPC sections under which the accused has been booked. Further probe is underway, he added.The accused Army Major could not be contacted despite several attempts.The complainant, whose father is a retired Indian Navy officer, has shared video clips of her ordeal with people in the hospital where she went after the injury.The woman's father has written a letter to the President demanding strict action against the accused."The police initially advised me not to file a case in the matter. Instead of lodging an FIR, cops persuaded us to reach a compromise with the accused," he told reporters.—IANS

 An Army Major has been accused of cutting his wife's finger demanding dowry from her in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district.

Army Officer Cuts Wife's Finger Over Dowry In UP's Meerut

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Meerut: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait has alleged that the government “wants to get him killed” and that the attacks on him in Karnataka and Delhi are proof enough. He was addressing the farmers and union members at “Kisan Panchayat” in Meerut’s Kanker Khera on Friday.Terming the recent black paint attack on him in Karnataka a “well-planned” conspiracy, he alleged that there was also a plot to kill him when he visited General Bipin Rawat’s residence in Delhi to pay homage to him after he passed away in a helicopter accident last December. It is a crucial time which cannot be wasted in infighting as the government is playing “sabotage” politics to disband the farmers’ union, he stated. “The Tikait family has always raised the farmers’ voice strongly and will continue doing it. After Baba Mahendra Singh Tikait, Naresh Tikait has now dedicated himself to the cause. The Tikait family will not succumb to the pressure,” he asserted.Before the elections, he said that the Uttar Pradesh government had promised free electricity for irrigation but now farmers are being “harassed by installing meters on tube wells”, which will not be tolerated. Tractors more than 10 years are being stopped. BKU is fighting against such harassments. Tikait added. Appealing to farmers to get maximum number of people under the union’s fold, the farmer leader said that only a strong and united fight against the government will fetch results. “The fight is on will continue until the government comes to the negotiating table. Till then, there will be no solution,” he concluded.—IANS

Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait has alleged that the government “wants to get him killed” and that the attacks on him in Karnataka and Delhi are proof enough.

Govt Wants To Have Me Killed: Rakesh Tikait

Meerut: His story is the stuff that Bollywood blockbusters are made up of. A Rs 100 crore scholarship scam that he unearthed when he was a young officer in the Provincial Civil Services (PCS) in March 2009, put him on the firing line of the mafia.Seven bullets were pumped into him — three in the face — that left him disfigured, blind in one eye, and with impaired hearing in an ear. Rinkoo Rahee was deputed as a social welfare officer in Muzaffarnagar in 2008 when he busted the massive racket. Eight men were booked for the attack on him that followed, out of which four were sentenced to 10 years in prison."During my ordeal, I was not fighting the system. The system was fighting me. I was in the hospital for four months but my medical leave is 'pending' for approval to date," said Rahee, now 40. However, Rinkoo Rahee was not one to reconcile with his fate. He decided to strengthen his own hands and crack the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sentinelassam.com/topheadlines/shruti-sharma-tops-upsc-all-three-toppers-are-women-594365" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 100, 0); background-color: transparent;">UPSC exam</a>.He finally has done it, securing 683rd rank. (UPSC has an age relaxation for some special categories of candidates which helped Rahee.)Rahee said that though he was attacked during the Mayawati regime, he was sent to a psychiatric ward during the Samajwadi Party regime for protesting corruption too much'. Rahee said, "My grandfather died when my father was 10 years old. My grandmother was thrown out of her in-laws' house.She had to do every menial job, including cleaning toilets of other people's homes, to survive. My father was good at studies but had to drop out to take care of the family. I grew up listening to these stories of exploitation and thought that had government officials been honest, we could have benefitted from several schemes. This is what drove me all along." Rahee is now the father of an eight-year-old. "It's not that temptation didn't knock on my doors. But I knew that if I ever indulged in nefarious activities, someone else and their child may suffer too," he said.He said he has insured himself in case there are any more attacks on him in future."Now I make my observations very transparent and post them on social media because my death will remove all proof of scams," he said.—IANS

 His story is the stuff that Bollywood blockbusters are made up of. A Rs 100 crore scholarship scam that he unearthed when he was a young officer in the Provincial Civil Services (PCS) in March 2009, put him on the firing line of the mafia.

Seven bullets only strengthened his resolve

Meerut: The students wing of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress have asked Sangeeta Shukla, Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Chaudhary Charan Singh University (CCSU) in Meerut, to withdraw her circular asking students to purchase a book on Ayodhya.Anshu Mallik from the SP’s student union at CCSU said the VC must take back the circular. “Asking students to buy a religious book of one religion or community will do nothing but hurt the sentiments of others,” he said. State president NSUI, Rohit Rana, said: “I don’t have any problem with Lord Ram or Ayodhya, but I have a problem with a figure like the VC, who is sitting on a constitutional post and advertising a religious book. We condemn this move.”The VC had issued a circular asking colleges and institutions affiliated to the university to buy the book titled, “Ayodhya- Parampara, Sanskriti, Virasat”, penned by writer and poet Yatindra Mishra. It is available for around Rs 6,000 on online platforms. In the circular, the VC said she has “received the book on Ayodhya, which is available in Hindi and Sanskrit languages”. “The book has a collection of rare pictures. It will be good for all colleges and institutions, and hence they should think about buying it,” the circular stated. Chaudhary Charan Singh University is the parent university of several colleges and private institutions across eight districts of Uttar Pradesh.—IANS

The students wing of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress have asked Sangeeta Shukla, Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Chaudhary Charan Singh University (CCSU) in Meerut, to withdraw her circular asking students to purchase a book on Ayodhya.

SP, NSUI Ask VC To Withdraw On Ayodhya Book

Meerut (UP): A man was arrested here after a video of him spitting on the bread he was preparing at a wedding function went viral on social media, police said on Tuesday.Firoz, whose video went viral on the social media on Monday, was seen spitting on the bread while making it at a marriage function at one Naresh's family in Atrada village of Kharkhauda area, they said."The accused was arrested on Tuesday after an FIR in this regard was lodged by Naresh on seeing his act in the video," SHO, Kharkhauda, Jitendra Kumar Dubey said.Local BJP leaders here have demanded invoking National Security Act (NSA) against the accused—PTI

 A man was arrested here after a video of him spitting on the bread he was preparing at a wedding function went viral on social media, police said on Tuesday.