Bulandshahr

Eight people were killed and 43 others injured when a truck rammed into a tractor-trolley carrying pilgrims in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district in the early hours of Monday, police said. The accident took place around 2.10 am on the Bulandshahr-Aligarh border near the Arnia bypass, when the canter truck hit the tractor-trolley from behind, causing it to overturn, Senior Superintendent of Police (Rural) Dinesh Kumar Singh said. "The tractor-trolley was carrying 61 people who were travelling from the Rafatpur village in the Kasganj district to Jaharpeer in Rajasthan for a pilgrimage," Singh said. He said the victims were rushed to hospitals, including a private facility. "Eight people died while 43 of them are undergoing treatment. Three of the injured are on ventilator support," Singh added.

PM Modi's remark came at the BJP event in Bulandshahr, which was meant to kickstart the saffron party's 2024 Lok Sabha campaign from western Uttar Pradesh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched development projects worth more than Rs 19,100 crore in Bulandshahr district in western Uttar Pradesh. Modi inaugurated a 173-km-long double-line electrified section between New Khurja and New Rewari on the dedicated freight corridor (DFC) by flagging off goods trains from the two stations through video conference. The prime minister also inaugurated a rail line connecting the Mathura-Palwal section and the Chipiyana Buzurg-Dadri section. These new lines will improve rail connectivity of the national capital to southern-western and eastern India. Modi unveiled multiple road development projects. He also inaugurated Indian Oil's Tundla-Gawaria pipeline. Built at a cost of about Rs 700 crore, this 255-km-long pipeline project has been completed well ahead of its scheduled time. The prime minister inaugurated the renovated Mathura sewerage scheme including the construction of a sewage treatment plant at a cost of about Rs 460 crore.

Party workers and BJP leaders are actively involved in the preparations, anticipating a significant turnout in the western Uttar Pradesh city

More details are awaited; further probe into the matter is underway

On January 3, the police had arrested local Bajrang Dal leader Yogesh Raj, also a key suspect in the case

The post-mortem revealed that Subodh had six marks of injuries inflicted by stones and also a bullet was stuck inside his skull

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In the villages at the eye of the storm, residents struggle to protect themselves from repercussions of the violence

'The BJP knows that the 2019 elections will not be easy for it. Therefore, has it used its weapon of religious polarisation? 'the Sena asked

It was not clear whether any decision was taken to act against those responsible for killing of Police Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh

'If in Modi-Yogi rule, police is in such a state then how much terror the common man would be feeling', said Rahul Gandhi

Inspector Subodh Singh, who had initially probed the 2015 lynching of Dadri resident Mohammed Akhlaq, and a 20-year-old man were killed on Monday

Demanding firm actions against those who have perpetrated the crime, the party stated that all steps should be taken to ensure no communal incidents in future

The state government has already said sternest action will be initiated, Naqvi said

In Bulandshahr, a police inspector, who had probed the Akhlaq lynching case died of gunshot injuries as a rampaging mob torched a police post

The armed men took turns to rape the women at the gun point in a nearby field

Police were yet to confirm sexual assault and said the women were misbehaved with

The incident comes barely three days after a brutal gang rape of a woman and her daughter in Bulandshahr