MP: BJP Ratlam district functionary held in drug trafficking case; removed from party post
Gwalior/Ratlam (PTI): The Madhya Pradesh Police have arrested a Bharatiya Janata Party functionary from Ratlam district in connection with the seizure of 1,900 kg of poppy husk in Gwalior last year, an official said on Sunday.
Following the arrest of Vivek Porwal on Friday, the Ratlam BJP unit in a statement on Saturday said it removed him as the convenor of the district party cultural cell over his involvement in a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in Gwalior.
The police had seized 1,900 kg of 'doda chura' (poppy husk) from a truck in Ghatigaon area of Gwalior in September last year and arrested two drivers of the vehicle under the NDPS Act, Gwalior Sub-Divisional Officer of Police Santosh Kumar Patel said.
Their interrogation revealed the contraband was being brought from Dimapur (in Nagaland), he said.
The official said the drivers also told the police that they were given air tickets for Dimapur by Porwal, a resident of Jaora in Ratlam district, and taking the truck to Ratlam but it was seized by the police mid-way.
Following an investigation, police arrested Porwal from Jaora on Friday, he said.
The police were interrogating Porwal to know about the network involved in the supply of the narcotic substance, the official said.
Meanwhile, Ratlam BJP district president Rajendra Singh Lunera on Saturday removed Porwal from the post of convenor of the district party unit's cultural cell.
The action was taken over Porwal's involvement in a case of the NDPS Act in Gwalior, Lunera said in a statement.
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19-yr-old woman found hanging from tree in UP village; juvenile held
Lucknow/Pratapgarh (UP) (PTI): Police have apprehended a 16-year-old boy for his alleged involvement in the rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in a village here, officials said on Monday.
Additional Superintendent of Police (West), Brijnandan Rai, said that the body of a 19-year-old woman was found hanging from a tree in an orchard in the Manikpur police station area on Sunday morning. A post-mortem examination subsequently confirmed that she had been raped.
Police registered a case against unidentified persons under sections 103(1) (punishment for murder) and 70(1) (gangrape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and initiated an investigation.
During the course of the investigation, the police found that the deceased was in contact with a juvenile who was also her relative.
Acting on this information, during a joint checking operation, sub-inspector Amit Kumar Singh of Manikpur police station and SOG In-charge Amit Kumar Chaurasia, along with their team, apprehended the 16-year-old near the Lehdari Ganga River bridge.
The search for other accused persons is ongoing, police said.
According to the police, the woman had gone to sleep after dinner on Saturday night but was found hanging in an orchard nearly 400 metres away from her home the following morning.
Additional Superintendent of Police (West), Brijnandan Rai, had earlier said that the circumstances suggest foul play.
"The victim's slippers and undergarments were recovered 50 metres away from the spot where the body was found. There are visible injury marks on her body," Rai said.
While locals have alleged that the woman was murdered after being raped, the ASP said that it is "prima facie a case of murder."
"Based on the complaint filed by the victim's brother, a case of murder has been registered against unidentified persons," the officer added.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, in a post on X in Hindi on Monday, said, "The news of the heinous murder of a Dalit daughter in Pratapgarh is deeply tragic and condemnable."
"The question remains: why does the spate of murders of 'PDA daughters' continue unabated in Uttar Pradesh? Are the BJP government's claims regarding women's safety merely hollow rhetoric, or is there, in fact, discrimination even in the provision of security for women?" he said.
"Whenever the 'wandering Honourable (ghumantu maananiye)' finds a moment of respite from election campaigning, he should cast a glance at the plight of the daughters of his own Uttar Pradesh. In any case, apart from injustice and oppression, no sister, daughter, or mother of this state holds any hope from you," Yadav added.
