UP: 12 cops booked in case of assaulting woman, looting her house
Pratapgarh (UP), Mar 25: An FIR has been lodged against 12 policemen in a case of assault and looting, an official said on Saturday.
Inspector in-charge (SHO) of Kandhai police station Dhirendra Thakur said, "An FIR was lodged on Friday evening against the police personnel accused of entering the house of women during 2021 panchayat election."
"The accused include the then police station in-charge Inspector Neeraj Walia, sub-inspectors Shailendra Tiwari and Surya Pratap Singh among others," he said.
The FIR was lodged on the direction of the Human Rights Commission and Director General of Police (DGP) after the victim, a resident of Rajapur Mufrid village, sent a letter to them complaining about the incident, Thakur added.
The complaint read, "On April 20, 2021, station in-charge Kandhai Neeraj Walia along with the police raided her house in the night and without asking anything started breaking the household items and after collecting the jewelery kept in the cupboard, snatched the mobile from the women of the house."
After investigating the case, Uttar Pradesh Human Rights Commission sent its report to the Bar Council on September 7, 2021, in which the accused policemen, including Neeraj Walia, were found guilty.
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Hamas accepts cease-fire proposal for Gaza, but Israel's stance still uncertain
Jerusalem, May 6: Hamas announced Monday it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, but there was no immediate word from Israel, leaving it uncertain whether a deal had been sealed to bring a halt to the seven-month-long war in Gaza.
It was the first glimmer of hope that a deal might avert further bloodshed. Hours earlier, Israel ordered some 100,000 Palestinians to begin evacuating the southern Gaza town of Rafah, signalling that an attack was imminent. The United States and other key allies of Israel oppose an offensive on Rafah, where around 1.4 million Palestinians, more than half of Gaza's population, are sheltering.
An official familiar with Israeli thinking said Israeli officials were examining the proposal, but the plan approved by Hamas was not the framework Israel proposed.
An American official also said the US was still waiting to learn more about the Hamas position and whether it reflected an agreement to what had already been signed off on by Israel and international negotiators or something else. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity as a stance was still being formulated.
Details of the proposal have not been released. Touring the region last week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had pressed Hamas to take the deal, and Egyptian officials said it called for a cease-fire of multiple stages starting with a limited hostage release and some Israeli troop pullbacks from Gaza. The two sides would also negotiate a “permanent calm” that would lead to a full hostage release and greater Israeli withdrawal, they said.
