72-700: The Uttar Pradesh Police ( UP Police ) ( IAST : Uttara Pradeśha Pulisa ), is the primary law enforcement agency within the Uttar Pradesh state of India. Established in 1863 as the Office of the Inspector General of Police, United Provinces under the Police Act, 1861 . Uttar Pradesh Police is one of the oldest police departments in the Republic of India, and is the largest police force in
144-568: A macron ). Vocalic (syllabic) consonants, retroflexes and ṣ ( / ʂ ~ ɕ ~ʃ/ ) have an underdot . One letter has an overdot: ṅ ( /ŋ/ ). One has an acute accent : ś ( /ʃ/ ). One letter has a line below: ḻ ( / ɭ / ) (Vedic). Unlike ASCII -only romanisations such as ITRANS or Harvard-Kyoto , the diacritics used for IAST allow capitalisation of proper names. The capital variants of letters never occurring word-initially ( Ṇ Ṅ Ñ Ṝ Ḹ ) are useful only when writing in all-caps and in Pāṇini contexts for which
216-565: A 1992 fake encounter and later they branded the victim as a terrorist. On 10 July 2020, Uttar Pradesh police personnel were involved in the encounter of gangster and former BSP leader Vikas Dubey . Dubey was apprehended a day before near the Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga temple in Ujjain , Madhya Pradesh. The police vehicle taking him back to Uttar Pradesh was involved in a crash; seeing the opportunity, Dubey allegedly snatched
288-529: A centre for trade with the northern mountain regions. In the late 1600s, Gorakhpur was officially renamed Mu'azzamabad in honour of Prince Mu'azzam (the later Bahadur Shah I ), and this name was used in official documents until the British takeover in 1801. Gorakhpur is situated about 100 km from the Nepal border, 193 km from Varanasi , 260 km from Patna and 270 km from Lucknow . It
360-509: A century of scholarly usage in books and journals on classical Indian studies. By contrast, the ISO 15919 standard for transliterating Indic scripts emerged in 2001 from the standards and library worlds. For the most part, ISO 15919 follows the IAST scheme, departing from it only in minor ways (e.g., ṃ/ṁ and ṛ/r̥)—see comparison below. The Indian National Library at Kolkata romanization , intended for
432-602: A community and was falsely attributed to Azam Khan by the boy. He was charged under Section 66A of the IT Act, and Sections 153A (promoting enmity between different religions), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 505 (public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code . After Section 66A was struck down by the Supreme Court on 24 March 2015, the state government said that they would continue
504-566: A fine of Rs 25 lakhs. In the 2020 Hathras gang rape and murder , the Uttar Pradesh Police came under fire, after some officials forcibly cremated the body of the victim girl without the consent of her family. DK Verma, the station house officer of Chandpa Police Station, was transferred for his "failure to promptly act" in the case, as well as humiliating the victim, refusal to file a report, and failure to follow procedures laid down for investigation of rape. A CBI team, appointed by
576-433: A font, etc. It can be enabled in the input menu in the menu bar under System Preferences → International → Input Menu (or System Preferences → Language and Text → Input Sources) or can be viewed under Edit → Emoji & Symbols in many programs. Equivalent tools – such as gucharmap ( GNOME ) or kcharselect ( KDE ) – exist on most Linux desktop environments. Users of SCIM on Linux based platforms can also have
648-694: A girl, whose father was a liquor baron in Agra , eloped with a man and sought shelter with the Love Commandos in nearby New Delhi. The girl's father used his influence to ask the Uttar Pradesh police in Agra to search for the girl. Agra police allegedly managed to find the girl's location in a suburban area in New Delhi by using her cellphone signal. They began combing area while being armed. Ultimately,
720-815: A metropolis on 22 November 2021. Apart from Gorakhpur Municipal Corporation, the government has declared three nagar panchayats and eight development blocks as a metropolitan area. For this, the urban Development Department has issued a notification to the city. According to the order issued by the Additional Chief Secretary, Urban Development, now in Gorakhpur Metropolitan Region, Municipal Corporation, Nagar Panchayat Pipraich , Nagar Panchayat PPganj, Nagar Panchayat Mundera Bazar, Chargawa, Khorabar, Pipraich, Sardar Nagar, Piprauli, Jungle Kaudiya, Campierganj and The entire area of Bhathat development block has been covered. After this
792-556: A pistol from a policeman trying to fix a flat tire and tried to run away, before being killed by the Uttar Pradesh police. An earlier attempt to arrest Dubey resulted in the death of 8 policemen, including a DSP rank officer. Through an investigation, call records showed that Dubey was in contact with multiple police personnel, who were acting as moles and leaked information to him. The Uttar Pradesh Police has been extensively involved in incidents of moral policing. These incidents have earned ire from general public and media personnel, besides
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#1732787320635864-451: A total of 68 District police units (headed by SP/SSP) and 7 Police Commissionerate (headed by CP) in the state. In each district (except all current 7 commissionerates), the head of the police is the SP or SSP . In the discharge of his duties, he is assisted by Superintendent of Police (SP), Deputy Superintendent of Police (Deputy SP) or Assistant Superintendent of Police who may either be
936-409: A total population of 673,446, of which 353,907 were males and 319,539 were females. It has a sex ratio of 903 females per 1000 males. The population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 69,596. Gorakhpur had a literacy rate of 75.2%, of which male literacy was 79.4% and female literacy was 70.6%. The effective literacy rate of the 7+ population of Gorakhpur was 83.9%, of which the male literacy rate
1008-671: Is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh , along the banks of the Rapti river in the Purvanchal region . It is situated 272 kilometres east of the state capital, Lucknow . It is the administrative headquarters of Gorakhpur district , North Eastern Railway Zone and Gorakhpur division . The city is home to the Gorakhnath Math , a Gorakhnath temple. The city also has had an Indian Air Force station since 1963. Gita Press ,
1080-649: Is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It is based on a scheme that emerged during the 19th century from suggestions by Charles Trevelyan , William Jones , Monier Monier-Williams and other scholars, and formalised by the Transliteration Committee of the Geneva Oriental Congress , in September 1894. IAST makes it possible for
1152-415: Is assisted by various sub-inspectors, head-constables, constables. There are also a number of police chowkis that come under the police station. A police chowki is under the charge of a sub-inspector of police. The regular constabulary carries the bulk of normal beat policing and patrolling. Basti There are currently 7 police commissionerates under UP Police - In the police commissionerate system,
1224-653: Is attributed to the husband, the prince Man Sen, while Kauladah is attributed to the wife, Kaulavati. Sometime after that, the area is said to have been ruled by a group known as the Domkatars, who built the Domingarh fort at the confluence of the Rapti and Rohin rivers. Still later, Gorakhpur is said to have been ruled by the Sarnet rajas of Satasi . Sometime around 1400, a family dispute is said to have prompted one branch of
1296-782: Is by setting up an alternative keyboard layout . This allows one to hold a modifier key to type letters with diacritical marks. For example, alt + a = ā. How this is set up varies by operating system. Linux/Unix and BSD desktop environments allow one to set up custom keyboard layouts and switch them by clicking a flag icon in the menu bar. macOS One can use the pre-installed US International keyboard, or install Toshiya Unebe's Easy Unicode keyboard layout. Microsoft Windows Windows also allows one to change keyboard layouts and set up additional custom keyboard mappings for IAST. This Pali keyboard installer made by Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) supports IAST (works on Microsoft Windows up to at least version 10, can use Alt button on
1368-590: Is designated as the Circle Officer (C.O.) in the state of Uttar Pradesh. A police circle is usually constituted by 2 to 4 police stations . Each police station is headed by a police inspector . Throughout the state of Uttar Pradesh and other states, especially in North India , there is the main police station in the older/ main part of the city known as the Kotwali. The Kotwali covers the main or usually
1440-622: Is headed by the Director General of Police (DGP) for the state of Uttar Pradesh , who is the highest-ranking ( DG ) IPS officer of the state cadre. UP Police is the first Indian state police agency to have a highway patrol Unit, the UP-Highway Police (UPHP). The present police system in the country was created following the recommendation of the Police Commission headed by Mr. H.M. Court in 1860, which led to
1512-536: Is one of the flood vulnerable districts in Eastern Uttar Pradesh . Data over the past 100 years show a considerable increase in the intensity and frequency of floods, with extreme events occurring every three to four years. Roughly 20% of the population is affected by floods, which are an annual occurrence in some areas, causing huge loss of life, health, and livelihoods for the poor inhabitants, as well as damage to public and private property. Gorakhpur
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#17327873206351584-480: Is protected on the south and west by the Rapti and Rohin rivers, and in the past there were dense forests on the north and east, offering protection on those sides as well. The earliest event described in local tradition is the legendary construction of the Mansarowar and Kauladah tanks, in the area now called Purana Gorakhpur, in the 10th century. They are said to have been built by a married couple — Mansarowar
1656-497: Is situated on the bank's of Rapti river which is a tributary of Ghagra river. A fairly large lake Ramgarh Tal Lake is also situated in the eastern part of the city. The Köppen climate classification subtype for this climate is Cwa (dry-winter humid subtropical climate ). Gorakhpur has been ranked 4th best “National Clean Air City” under (Category 2 3-10L Population cities) in India. As of 2011 Indian Census , Gorakhpur had
1728-492: Is the headquarters of North Eastern Railways . An Air Force station of Indian Air Force was established in Gorakhpur in 1963 named Mahayogi Gorakhnath Airport and extended for public air transport. Gorakhpur Metro is a light metro project with 2 line and 27 stations is light rail transit (LRT) system approved to be built in Gorakhpur. It consist two corridors covering a distance of 27.84 km. On 1 December 2021
1800-644: The Delhi Police had to intervene and stop the illegal search. These law enforcement officers have been depicted in Indian cinema through various films. The Dabangg series of films starring Salman Khan are an example of depiction of the UP Police. Bhaukaal (web series) is based on Senior IPS Officer Navniet Sekera of U.P. Police. International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration ( IAST )
1872-564: The SC/ST Act , the prosecution and defense appealed the trial in the Allahabad High Court. On 20 September 2023, eight police personnel across the state were arrested and charged for different crimes against women. On 18 March 2015, the Uttar Pradesh police arrested a minor teenager from Bareilly , Uttar Pradesh , for making a post on Facebook insulting politician Azam Khan . The post allegedly contained hate speech against
1944-528: The 1.22 lakh (122,000) rifles available to the state police are of point-303 bore category, which was rendered obsolete by the Ministry of Home Affairs in 1995. Weapons of the UP Police also include: The Uttar Pradesh Police has an extensive history of police brutality , misconduct , and corruption , as well as discrimination on the basis of caste and religion . In 2007, 18,000 police officers were fired as they were hired despite being unqualified for
2016-720: The Commissioner of Police (CP) in the rank of Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) or Inspector General of Police (IGP) heads the district police department or commissionerate. In Lucknow Police , the CP is assisted by 2 Joint Commissioners of Police (JCPs) with the ranks of IG and DIG, in Kanpur Police the commissioner is assisted by 2 Additional Commissioners (Addl. CPs) in the ranks of IG and DIG who look after Law and order while other looks into Crime & Headquarters respectively, whereas in all other commissionerates
2088-525: The Satasi dynasty to leave the old stronghold, on the shore of Ramgarh Tal, and move to a new location in what is now Purana Gorakhpur, near the shrine of the renowned ascetic Gorakhnath . In any case, Gorakhpur had become a large town by the time of Akbar , in the late 1500s. The earliest contemporary reference to a Mughal garrison at Gorakhpur is in 1572, when it was governed by Payanda Khan on behalf of Munim Khan , then subahdar of Jaunpur . Gorakhpur
2160-549: The State Government in the aftermath, heavily condemned the Uttar Pradesh Police for cover-up through inaction and delay in collecting samples as well as other evidence, eventually botching up the investigation, along with misconduct against the victim's family and failure to provide timely medical aid to the victim. The botched investigation led to the acquittal of 3 of the 4 accused, as with lack of crucial evidence, neither of them charged with rape and murder; furthermore,
2232-585: The Supreme Court. On 19 December 2005, police personnel raided a public park in Meerut , accompanied by cameras crews from TV channels. They attacked couples sitting in the park in front of cameras. The raid was termed "Operation Majnu" (named after the folklore ) and it was claimed by the police that the purpose was to check sexual harassment. On 29 November 2011, the Ghaziabad police launched its own "Operation Majnu". The police caught couples in parks and made
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2304-477: The U.P. police have since come into existence for combating organized crimes, economic offences, terrorism, etc. A Director General of Police (DGP) heads the state police. He is assisted by many police officers. State police headquarters is situated in Lucknow . For the purpose of maintaining law and order in the state, the state of Uttar Pradesh is divided into 8 police zones. Each zone is headed by an officer of
2376-535: The area of Sanskrit studies make use of free OpenType fonts such as FreeSerif or Gentium , both of which have complete support for the full repertoire of conjoined diacritics in the IAST character set. Released under the GNU FreeFont or SIL Open Font License , respectively, such fonts may be freely shared and do not require the person reading or editing a document to purchase proprietary software to make use of its associated fonts. Gorakhpur Gorakhpur
2448-525: The attitude of Uttar Pradesh Police officials has often been lackluster, which has worsened crime rate and safety of women, especially in the rural areas and with most victims belonging to minority and backward castes. There have also been police officers accused of crimes against women, especially rape, molestation, and sexual harassment. In several cases, lower ranked police personnel have faced suspension and dismissal for inaction, ignorance, and insensitivity by indulging in victim blaming instead of investigating
2520-458: The central government has also approved the DPR of Gorakhpur light metro project. Gorakhpur has 4 universities, namely, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University , Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology , Maha Yogi Guru Gorakhnath Ayush University , Mahayogi Gorakhnath University , a private university. One medical college named Baba Raghav Das Medical College and AIIMS Gorakhpur and
2592-460: The commissioner is assisted by Addl.CP(s) of DIG rank. Under them, there is a team of IPS & PPS officers who are posted as DCPs and ACPs. Three DCPs are posted in a zone. One DCP's insignia is the state emblem above one star, who is senior to the other two DCPs, whose insignia is one state emblem only. Under the DCPs work ACPs, who are the chiefs of various circles. They are vested with the powers of
2664-744: The complaint lodged by his wife Nutan against the state minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati for illegal mining activities. In retaliation, Thakur was charged with false cases of rape and disproportionate assets, both of which were proven to be baseless and he was cleared by the Economic Offenses Wing and the Vigilance Department. The Uttar Pradesh Police has received widespread condemnation for filing charges against victims of cow vigilantism. The victims, who have been accused of cow slaughter or smuggling of cattle, belong to either Muslim or lower caste Hindu communities. Following
2736-536: The consumer edition since XP. This is limited to characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Characters are searchable by Unicode character name, and the table can be limited to a particular code block. More advanced third-party tools of the same type are also available (a notable freeware example is BabelMap ). macOS provides a "character palette" with much the same functionality, along with searching by related characters, glyph tables in
2808-631: The convention is to typeset the IT sounds as capital letters. For the most part, IAST is a subset of ISO 15919 that merges the retroflex (underdotted) liquids with the vocalic ones ( ringed below ) and the short close-mid vowels with the long ones. The following seven exceptions are from the ISO standard accommodating an extended repertoire of symbols to allow transliteration of Devanāgarī and other Indic scripts , as used for languages other than Sanskrit. The most convenient method of inputting romanized Sanskrit
2880-419: The crimes and apprehending the culprits. In February 2017, on the orders of Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav , the Uttar Pradesh Police refused to file a rape case against Gayatri Prasad Prajapati , then minister of State for mining. Following the refusal, the victim approached Supreme Court, which ordered the department to have the report filed and conduct an investigation. Gayatri Prasad Prajapati
2952-483: The department was also condemned for failure to stop protests led by expelled BJP MLA Rajveer Singh Pehelwan, with activists and members of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal , who held a rally in support for the accused as they belonged to the upper castes. Additionally, the Provincial Armed Constabulary, tasked to protect the victim's family, was slammed for allowing kin of accused and
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3024-402: The enactment of the Police Act of 1861 that is in force even today. The same Mr. Court became the first Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the then North West Province and Avadh which comprised the territory of the present state of Uttar Pradesh. The Police structure was erected in the form of the following eight organizations: The Civil Police too continued to grow and Mr. B.N. Lahiri was
3096-647: The executive magistrate for criminal cases. Police Commissionerates are independent of zonal & range police chiefs' supervision. They are also vested with powers of an executive magistrate under various acts. UP police uses a database of 500,000+ criminals with facial recognition technology in its "Trinetra" face identification system. A social media command and research center has been established in Meerut. The center monitors trends in social media that can have an impact on law & order situation and advise concerned district and range police chiefs. Most of
3168-496: The first Indian Inspector General of Police of Uttar Pradesh after independence. The performance of the state police in the spheres of Crime control and maintenance of law and order was highly appreciated, due to which it had the proud privilege of being the first police force in the country to receive the President's Color on 23 November 1952 by the then Prime Minister of India , Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru . Various specialized wings of
3240-610: The hotel and told the police. In 2017, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath started the anti-romeo squads in the department for safety of women and young girls from sexual harassment and eve-teasing. However, the squads were found to be involved in acts of moral policing, harassment of couples, as well as extortion. Due to such incidents, the Police force and the Government came under fire from media for such incidents of moral policing, as well as misuse of authority, eventually demanding that
3312-594: The introduction of Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020 in Uttar Pradesh to curb Love Jihad , the Uttar Pradesh Police, collaborating with Bajrang Dal , have attempted to stop interfaith marriages. In certain cases, misconduct of Uttar Pradesh Police officials have resulted in backlash, especially against women thought to be victims of Love Jihad. The police personnel have also targeted couples involved in inter-caste marriages, while apparently using this law against Muslim and Dalit community, along with stopping consensual inter-faith marriages. In 2014,
3384-801: The job. These new recruits were illiterates who bribed between ₹100,000 and ₹500,000 to cheat in the UP police entrance tests. In 2020, Uttar Pradesh government started an operation to screen allegedly corrupt police officials who will be forced to take retirement. In 2018, India Today carried out an investigative piece reporting incidents of UP police framing innocent people and killing them in staged encounters for money and promotions. A sub-inspector had allegedly offered to gun down an innocent civilian for around Rs 8 lakh. Between 2015–2018, 211 complaints of fake encounters were filed in India out of which 39 were on UP police. In 2012, 17 UP police personnel were given life term for killing an incontinent 24-year-old man in
3456-486: The law and order in the district lies with the district magistrate who is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service . The police district is further subdivided into police sub-divisions or police circles. A police circle is usually headed by an officer of the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police or Assistant Superintendent of Police . The officer heading the police circle/sub-division
3528-431: The men do sit-ups in front of TV cameras. The head of the operation an officer called Alka Pandey said it was to prevent "innocent girls being trapped by boys with evil motives". On 10 August 2013, Ghaziabad police raided a hotel on a tip-off and detained 56 adult couples. It was later found out of them, 52 couples were married or consenting friends. The police had carried out the raid after locals noticed usual traffic to
3600-593: The number of the PPS officers is relatively lesser. Typically, a police district in the state corresponds with the administrative district. Though, the head of the police force in the district is the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP)/ Superintendent of police (SP), who is always an officer of the Indian Police Service , the ultimate/final responsibility with regard to the maintenance of
3672-498: The officers of the Provincial Police Service or Indian Police Service . The number of SPs and Deputy SPs varies with the size, population, police work, or nature of police work in different districts. The number of SPs and Dy.SPs in districts like Gorakhpur , Bareilly , Meerut , Moradabad is considerably more than other districts. Whereas in smaller districts like Baghpat , Kannauj , Mahoba , Chandauli
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#17327873206353744-461: The older part of the town/city under its jurisdiction. Earlier, when the cities and towns were smaller and had a lesser population than at present and they hadn't grown in size so much, Kotwali covered the main town area of the cities or the districts. A police station is also called as a thana in the local language. The officer in charge of a police station is designated as or called as the station officer (S.O.) or station house officer (S.H.O). He
3816-700: The opportunity to install and use the sa-itrans-iast input handler which provides complete support for the ISO 15919 standard for the romanization of Indic languages as part of the m17n library. Or user can use some Unicode characters in Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended Additional and Combining Diarcritical Marks block to write IAST. Only certain fonts support all the Latin Unicode characters essential for
3888-445: The population of Gorakhpur metropolis will be around 25 lakhs. Languages in Gorakhpur (2011) Hindi is the most spoken language in the city, although many of those recorded as speaking 'Hindi' actually speak Bhojpuri . Urdu is also spoken here. Gorakhpur is connected through a rail network and Gorakhpur railway station . Until March 2021, it had world's longest platform of 1366 meters. In February 2020, 100 flowering pots with
3960-512: The present town" because the course of the Rapti was then more to the north and east than it is today; it would have flowed through the present-day city and gone through what is now the Ramgarh Tal. Farmers digging wells in the 1800s/early 1900s would sometimes encounter pieces of old boats, which is indicative of the river's shift in course. The site of Gorakhpur would have been desirable for a human settlement because of its secure location — it
4032-412: The prosecution under the remaining charges. On 10 July 2015, IPS Officer Amitabh Thakur, who was posted as an IG, alleged that former Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, had threatened him on a phone call. He released the audio of the phone call, in which Yadav is allegedly heard saying certain sentences of threatening nature: Thakur alleged that Mulayam Singh was unhappy about
4104-428: The rank of additional director general of police who is an officer of the Indian police Service . Each police zone is constituted by 2 to 3 police ranges. There are a total of 18 police ranges in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Each range is headed by an officer of the rank of either inspector general of police or deputy inspector general of police . Each police range is constituted by around 2 to 4 districts. There are
4176-599: The reader to read the Indic text unambiguously, exactly as if it were in the original Indic script. It is this faithfulness to the original scripts that accounts for its continuing popularity amongst scholars. Scholars commonly use IAST in publications that cite textual material in Sanskrit, Pāḷi and other classical Indian languages. IAST is also used for major e-text repositories such as SARIT, Muktabodha, GRETIL, and sanskritdocuments.org. The IAST scheme represents more than
4248-532: The report. However, in the aftermath, 6 officers were suspended for arresting the victim's father and subsequent custodial death, who was also assaulted by the accused's brother Atul Sengar. Following outrage and protests, the CBI took over the investigation and the case was handed to Allahabad High Court . Kuldeep Sengar was convicted in December 2019 and sentenced to life imprisonment for rape and kidnapping, along with
4320-471: The right side of the keyboard instead of Ctrl+Alt combination). Many systems provide a way to select Unicode characters visually. ISO/IEC 14755 refers to this as a screen-selection entry method . Microsoft Windows has provided a Unicode version of the Character Map program (find it by hitting ⊞ Win + R then type charmap then hit ↵ Enter ) since version NT 4.0 – appearing in
4392-486: The romanisation of all Indic scripts , is an extension of IAST. The IAST letters are listed with their Devanagari equivalents and phonetic values in IPA , valid for Sanskrit , Hindi and other modern languages that use Devanagari script, but some phonological changes have occurred: * H is actually glottal , not velar . Some letters are modified with diacritics : Long vowels are marked with an overline (often called
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#17327873206354464-450: The squads be disbanded. The Uttar Pradesh Police has an infamous history of refusing to file reports and investigate crimes against women, notably rape cases, especially when high profile individuals like political leaders are involved, or caste bias. This has led to botched investigations, or cases being assigned to the CBI . Despite the changes mandated by Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 ,
4536-445: The support structures were made and installed on the hydrant pipe at platform No.2 to increase the plantation and natural cover, using local resources of the Gorakhpur coaching depot. The station offers Class A-1 railway station facilities. From 6 October 2013, Gorakhpur had the world's longest railway platform , after inauguration of the remodelled Gorakhpur Yard, with a stretch of around 1,355.40 metres (0.84 mi). Gorakhpur
4608-487: The transliteration of Indic scripts according to the IAST and ISO 15919 standards. For example, the Arial , Tahoma and Times New Roman font packages that come with Microsoft Office 2007 and later versions also support precomposed Unicode characters like ī . Many other text fonts commonly used for book production may be lacking in support for one or more characters from this block. Accordingly, many academics working in
4680-571: The upper caste villagers to enter the premises of the victim's family and threaten them to take back their case; following media allegations, the CRPF took over the security of the family. Following the trial in March 2023 at the Hathras district court, which led to acquittal of 3 suspects of 4 with the last one only charged for culpable homicide not amounting to murder (IPC Section 304) and provisions under
4752-583: The weapons in service with the Uttar Pradesh Police are locally produced by the Indian ordnance factories controlled by the Ordnance Factories Board , the police also induct various weapons imported by the Ministry of Home Affairs as part of modernization plans. As per the 2017 audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India , Uttar Pradesh Police has a shortage of 45,047 handguns and an excess of 56,298 rifles. 48%, 58,853, of
4824-549: The world's largest publisher of Hindu religious texts like Ramayana and Mahabharata , has been established here since 1926. The name "Gorakhpur" comes from the Sanskrit Gorakshapuram , which means abode of Gorakshanatha , a renowned ascetic who was a prominent saint of the Nath Sampradaya . The earliest forerunners of the settlement at Gorakhpur were probably "considerably to the north of
4896-536: The world, having about 68 district police department (excluding 7 commissionerates ) in it. The Uttar Pradesh Police is headquartered at Signature Building, Gomti Nagar Extension in Lucknow which was earlier located in city of Prayagraj . The Uttar Pradesh Police employ around 1,368 gazetted officers, and 231,443 non gazetted uniformed officers. Uttar Pradesh Police is governed by the Department of Home and Confidential of Uttar Pradesh. The Uttar Pradesh Police
4968-464: Was 88.7% and the female literacy rate was 78.6%. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population was 62,728 and 2,929, respectively. Gorakhpur had 112,237 households in 2011. According to a 2020 report, 31 villages have been incorporated in the municipal corporation limits increasing the population to over 1 million. The city area has also increased from 145.5 km in 2011 to 226.6 km . The state government has also declared Gorakhpur,as
5040-406: Was arrested in March 2017 after absconding for long. On 12 November 2021, he was sentenced to life on the charges of rape. The Uttar Pradesh Police was criticized for mishandling the 2017 Unnao rape case , which involved expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar. The victim's father went to file report earlier, but after initial refusal by the department, the Supreme Court took action and ordered filing
5112-573: Was for a long time the main Muslim garrison north of the Ghaghra, which may explain why it has such a prominent Muslim presence compared to other parts of the district. In the Ain-i-Akbari ( c. 1595), Gorakhpur is listed as the capital of a sarkar in the subah of Awadh . Sarkar Gorakhpur was divided into 24 mahal s, and Gorakhpur itself was one of them. The mahal of Gorakhpur
5184-513: Was listed with an assessed revenue of 567,385 dam s and was expected to supply 200 infantry and 40 cavalry to the Mughal army. It was described as having a brick fort on the Rapti. Gorakhpur also had a mint under Akbar, issuing copper coins only. By the time of Aurangzeb , the Gorakhpur mint was also issuing silver coins. During the 1600s, based on Jean-Baptiste Tavernier 's account of his travels in India, Gorakhpur played an important role as
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