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New Delhi: UP Legislative Council chairman Ramesh Yadav’s wife Meera alleged that her confession was made under “police pressure”. She was arrested after reportedly admitting to murdering her son Abhijit Yadav. Appearing before chief judicial magistrate Anand Prakash Singh, she denied any involvement in her son’s murder. The court sent her to 14 days judicial custody.

After coming out of the court, Meera claimed that she had earlier given a confession statement under pressure from the police. “There is a big conspiracy in Abhijit’s murder,” she alleged.

Police arrested her early on Monday morning for allegedly murdering Abhijit (22) after a late night argument on Saturday. According to police, preliminary investigation has revealed that alleged physical and mental harassment by Abhijit led forced Meera to kill him.

New Delhi: Congress leaders have accused the Bharatiya Janata Party for appropriating its legacy as top leaders of Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other parties were present to pay homage to the mortal remains of former chief minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari but senior Congress leaders were largely absent from the final journey of the veteran politician who was the last from the party to rule the crucial state.

A three-time UP chief minister, Tiwari’s body, escorted from Delhi to Lucknow by deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma, was received at the airport Saturday by chief minister Yogi Adityanath and the BJP top brass along with those of Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) with Congress representation largely left to state leaders Ammar Rizvi, Pramod Tiwari and Sanjay Sinh.

New Delhi: The Congress has refused to defend or protect anybody and the law should take its due course after a case has been registered against former Kerala chief minister Oomen Chandy and Congress MP K C Venugopal. The complain of sexual misconduct has been filed by Solar scam accused Saritha S Nair.

Congress spokesperson and Mahila Congress chief Sushmita Dev said an FIR has been filed and the women have every right to file it and the police has every right to investigate.

“The law must take its due course. We are not here to defend or protect anybody against whom there is an allegation. She has every right to file an FIR. Police has every right to investigate. It does not matter whether it is Oomen Chandy or anybody else,” she told reporters here when asked about the charges against Chandy.

New Delhi: In an oblique reference to Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress that has invoked sharp reactions from the principal Opposition party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that architects of Indian systems continued to see the country through the ‘prisms of England’.

At an event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the establishment of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’ Azad Hind government at the historic Red Fort, the PM also sent across a sharp message of India’s strength in security, announcing that any challenge will be met with twice as much reply.