In Pic :Prisoned for life? A sequence of pictures showing Amarmani Tripathi stepping out of the Gorakpur Jail and getting into his car. Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav had promised a regime without criminals. Three months later, some of the most dreaded ganglords in the state are strolling in and out of prison as they wish. Ashish Khetan exposes a disturbing trend. MY PHOTOGRAPHER and I have been waiting in a taxi […]

A Muslim man was gunned down in broad daylight in Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s hometown Etawah on Sunday. Adnan, 22, was allegedly killed for daring to marry a Hindu girl.   Kirti, 21, who had married Adnan after years of courtship, squarely blamed the registrar of marriages — the local city magistrate Surendra Kumar Sharma — for the incident. “Six months ago, we had applied for a court […]