Ghaziabad Police on Sunday apprehended a person for calling up an individual from a virtual number on a social messaging app and threatening to kill him if he did not pay Rs 20 lakh.

Sahibabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 4 (ANI): Ahead of the Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra held a door-to-door campaign in Sahibabad, Ghaziabad on Friday and said that the party is raising the issues pertaining to the public.

New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI): Congress on Thursday announced the second list of candidates on 41 assembly seats for the upcoming polls in Uttar Pradesh.

Ghaziabad Oct 22 PTI A special court here on Friday sentenced a man to seven years in jail for raping a minor girl eight years ago and leaving her with a six-month pregnancy Special Judge Piyush Tiwari of a court set up under the POCSO Act convicted and sentenced Sahibabad resident Amzad despite the victim claiming that she was 18-year-old at the time of the alleged rape Turning hostile to the prosecution case she also pleaded with the court that she wanted to live with Amzad as she had been living with his family since his arrest in June 2014 Special Public Prosecutor Sanjiv Bakharva said The court however sentenced the man to seven years in jail and also imposed a fine of Rs 50000 ignoring the victims pleas and after ascertaining that she was only 17 years old at the time of her rape he added The court however giving the convict the benefit of section 428 of the Criminal Procedure Code set off Amzads sentence against the period of his detention that he underwent during the trial as he was never granted bail after his arrest in June 2014 The victims father who had lodged the complaint of her daughters rape had died during the trial he said adding the court asked the convict to give Rs 35000 out of the fine to the victim PTI CORR RAX RAX