Shock defeat of BJP in Cantonment Board polls in Varanasi, Lucknow

In Varanasi, the Lok Sabha seat of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, all the seven seats were bagged by Independents.
  
BJP had for the first time fielded or supported candidates in Cantonment Board polls. In Lucknow, the home turf of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP lost on all eight seats to Independents.
  
Asked to comment on the party's poor performance in these elections, BJP state chief Laxmikant Bajpai said most of the candidates lost as they were not given official party symbol.
  
In Varanasi, the seven seats were won by Sangita, Shailendra Singh, Rajkumar Das, Masood Hussain, Chandra Keshav, Shahnawaz Ali and Shailja Srivastava – all Independents.
  
In Lucknow, Jagdish Prasad, Pramod Sharma, Rupa Devi, Swati Yadav, Amit Kumar Shukla, Anjum Aara, Sanjay Kumar Vaish and Reena Singhania -- all Independents -- bagged the eight seats.
  
In Agra too, the performance of BJP was not good as it won just one ward, with Independents romping home at seven seats. BJP had contested these seats on party symbol.
  
Polling was held on Sunday and results of Varanasi and Lucknow were declared on Monday. Commenting on BJP's rout, UP Cabinet Minister and Samajwadi Party leader Ambika Chowdhury said the results had proved BJP's tall claims hollow.

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15-year-old's decomposed body found near Vasai fort

A 15-year-old student was found murdered near Vasai fort on Sunday. Locals found the body in a highly decomposed state in the afternoon, after which they called the local Valiv police. Cops suspect the boy was killed after he got a girl to elope with him to Mumbai from Uttar Pradesh.

According to the police, a local watchman discovered the dead boy. Since the body was in an advanced state of decomposition, police performed an on-the-spot autopsy and buried the body at the spot, after taking requisite permissions from the local municipal corporation.

After this, the Valiv police received an alert from the Kurla Government Railway Police (GRP) that a teenager named Abhishek Yadav had been missing for more than a week. Valiv police asked the family to come and identify the belongings of their identified body, and their parents immediately recognised their boy’s belongings. Police then exhumed the boy’s corpse and handed it over to the family yesterday.

“After we showed the deceased’s belongings to his parents, they identified him, following which the case was transferred to the Kurla GRP where the missing complaint was initially registered,” said Arun Phegade, assistant police inspector at Valiv police station.

Honour killing?
Preliminary investigations revealed that Yadav was killed with a sharp weapon, as there were marks on his chest. The Valiv police then registered a murder case and suspect that it may be a case of parents objecting to a relationship.

An officer from the police station said, “Abhishek was in Std X and used to love a girl name Rani (name changed). His parents didn’t agree to the relationship.

Two weeks ago, Abhishek and Rani ran away and came to Mumbai. A friend last saw him with Rani at Kurla station. Since then, he has been missing and his family complained to the Kurla railway police.”

Source: Hindi News

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