Former Union Minister Balyan accuses UP Police of withdrawing security over corruption allegations
New Delhi: Former Union Minister and two-time MP Sanjeev Balyan has accused the Uttar Pradesh police of withdrawing his security cover in retaliation for his stance against corruption. In a letter to Chief Minister Adityanath, Balyan alleged that his protest against the "illegal" occupation of temple land by a distillery led to this action, which he claims puts his safety at risk.
Balyan, who represented Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh until his defeat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, expressed concerns about his personal security. Referring to a previous attack during the elections, he warned, “The state government and its officials will be responsible if I am attacked in the future.”
The former minister has also been named in a case related to the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, where he and other BJP leaders face charges of making provocative speeches. Last week, an MP-MLA court in Uttar Pradesh framed charges against him and others involved in the case.
In his letter, Balyan criticized the state government’s treatment of him, stating, “If a former Union Minister is being treated like this, imagine the situation faced by ordinary BJP workers.”
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Over 17,000 people went missing in Delhi in 2024: NCRB
New Delhi (PTI): A total of 23,058 people, comprising 9,482 men and 13,576 women, were reported missing in Delhi in 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Of the total, 5,491 were children below the age of 18 — 1,571 boys, 3,920 girls.
The city recorded 17,567 fresh adult missing persons cases in 2024, comprising 7,911 men and 9,656 women.
According to the NCRB data, released on Wednesday, 14,637 men, 18,238 women and six transgender persons were still missing from previous years.
At the latest count, in 2024, Delhi had a total of 55,939 missing persons cases — 24,119 men, 31,814 women and six transgender persons.
In 2024, police traced or collected 28,392 missing persons, including 12,182 men, 16,208 women and two transgender persons.
Only half of the men and half of the women who went missing could be traced.
A total of 27,547 missing persons – 11,937 men, 15,606 women, four transgender persons — were yet to be untraced by the end of the year, the data showed.
The data also revealed that 5,352 children from previous years remained untraced at the beginning of 2024.
The number of still missing boys was 1,621, and the number of missing girls was 3,729. Two transgender children were yet to be found.
After adding the pending cases from previous years, the total number of missing children cases handled in 2024 rose to 10,843.
The police traced or recovered 6,762 missing children — 2,030 boys, 4,732 girls.
The recovery rate stood at 63.6 per cent for boys and 61.9 per cent for girls, while no transgender child was traced.
By the end of 2024, a total of 4,081 children remained untraced, 1,162 of them boys, 2,917 girls, and two transgender children.
