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Peeyush Khandelwal

Peeyush Khandelwal writes on a range of issues in western Uttar Pradesh – from crime, to development authorities and from infrastructure to transport. Based in Ghaziabad, he has been a journalist for almost a decade.

Articles by Peeyush Khandelwal

Now, Kanwariyas ransack liquor shops, beat up transgenders

The incident occurred on Monday when a group of Kanwariyas attacked an open model shop (a term used for liquor stores) in Sahibabad, breaking glasses and damaging the counter

This is the fourth such incident in six days when pilgrims returning from Haridwar with Ganga water have resorted to violence in Ghaziabad district in full of view of the police, who have so far failed to act against the culprits. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 31, 2024 08:00 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: Kanwariyas damage ‘police’ vehicle on Delhi Meerut Road, third incident in five days

The incident occurred near Duhai on Delhi Meerut Road in the morning when a Bolero car bearing a ‘police’ sticker allegedly brushed passed past several Kanwariyas

The Delhi Meerut Road sees heavy movement of Kanwariyas from Haridwar and the Meerut-Ghaziabad lane is reserved exclusively for them. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 30, 2024 06:14 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: Kanwariyas vandalise car after it hits pilgrim, police book driver

The incident occurred around 2.30pm on Saturday when a Honda City, allegedly hit one of the kanwariyas walking on the Meerut-Ghaziabad carriageway

A video of the incident also went viral over the social media. It shows many of the kanwariyas atop the car and damaging it with sticks, rods and baseball bats while hundreds of others look on. (HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 28, 2024 09:00 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad: Environment ministry seeks ATR about degradation at city forest

The land of city forest that belongs to the Ghaziabad municipal corporation (GMC), is located adjacent to the GT Road near Hindon river.

The issue was raised by Rajendra Tyagi, a former councillor, who approached the Allahabad high court with a public interest litigation in 2012 highlighting the alleged destruction of hundreds of green trees due to an overflowing city drain passing through the city forest. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 28, 2024 08:56 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad: Three arrested for beating up college accountant

The three suspects told police that they were hired by some staff of MMH College through a class IV employee, Dharmendra (single name)

The three suspects were identified with the help of CCTV footage and arrested by the Kotwali police. (Representative image)

Noida

Updated on Jul 27, 2024 09:54 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad: 50-year-old shot dead, son injured over rivalry

On late Friday evening, the DCP said that three suspects, Amit, Rahul and Ashu (single names) have been arrested in connection with the murder

The incident happened when Saurabh Kumar and his father Ram Kumar were going home on a bike from their dairy farm at Krishna Nagar to Kalcheena around 7.30pm, and a group of people opened fire at them. (Representative image)

Noida

Updated on Jul 27, 2024 09:38 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: Facing shortage, GDA to hire retired government officers

Officials said that two posts of joint secretary and other posts of officers on special duty, were also lying vacant and no postings have been made for years

Officials have prepared a proposal that states that retired government employees will be roped in for engineering works and will be paid between <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>35,000-67,000 per month as remuneration while accountants will also be hired for <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>35,000 per month. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 27, 2024 08:16 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad: Two years on, woman helps cops arrest father for mother’s murder

Police said Firdaus had a plot worth about ₹15 lakh in Mirzapur, Vijay Nagar, and Intezar wanted it sold, but Firdaus resisted his attempts to sell it

The crime branch on Thursday arrested three people and identified them as the woman’s husband Mohammad Intezar, 49, Mohammad Parvez, 29, and Intezar’s nephew Shadab Khan, 26. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 26, 2024 06:46 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Woman exec suicide: Non-bailable warrants against three bank employees

In all, her note names six colleagues, three of whom are women, police said. So far, three of them have been arrested

Police are on the lookout for two other male colleagues and one woman colleague who allegedly had a fight with the deceased in the cafeteria on July 9 and also bullied her for her rural background and her way of dressing. (Representational image)

Noida

Updated on Jul 25, 2024 07:16 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: Boy dies of ‘suspected rabies’ a month after stray dog attack

Health officials said they cannot confirm whether the boy had the disease as a day after he died on July 19, his family cremated the body

The boy’s uncle Shivam Kumar said the three-year-old was bitten by a dog on June 25, and was later taken to a private hospital, where he was administered doses of anti-rabies vaccine (ARV). (Representational image)

Noida

Updated on Jul 25, 2024 06:32 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

GDA to adopt amended by-laws with relaxed norms for hotels

Hotels, however, cannot be set up on residential plots available in a planned and developed colony, the amended bylaws add

Residents said there is hardly any scope for tourism in Ghaziabad and the new amended rules should have been restricted to cities such as Agra, Varanasi, Ayodhya etc., where there is ample scope for tourism promotion. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 23, 2024 06:46 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Two killed as wrong-side car collides with two-wheeler on Delhi-Meerut highway

Both vehicles were violating traffic rules – the car was being driven on the wrong side of the road, while entry of two-wheelers is banned on DME

The video shows a scooter moving towards Ghaziabad in the extreme right lane while a white car is seen approaching it from the wrong side, crashing into the scooter head-on within seconds. (HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 23, 2024 06:23 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Kanwar Yatra: Unaware of SC stay, eatery owners rush to display names

The court held that food vendors and hawkers must not be forced to disclose their names but they may be asked to show the kind of food being served

The Delhi-Meerut Road passes through Ghaziabad up to Meerut and also serves as a lifeline for commuters travelling to western Uttar Pradesh, Haridwar and other cities in Uttarakhand. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 23, 2024 06:25 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Modinagar-Meerut RRTS link not open despite approval

In a statement on Saturday, a National Capital Region transport corporation (NCRTC) spokesperson said that the section will be open “soon”

NCRTC is developing the 82km RRTS project, at a cost of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>30,274 crore, to connect Delhi, Ghaziabad and Meerut. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 21, 2024 06:20 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad gets ready to plant 1.1 million trees today; but no increase in forest cover since 2017

Ghaziabad district aims to plant 1.1 million trees in annual drive. Despite past efforts, forest cover stagnant since 2017. Government plans 365 million trees in UP.

Despite undertaking plantation drives on such a large scale every year, the district’s forest cover has shown no increase since 2017, said officials quoting Forest Survey of India data. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 20, 2024 06:58 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Senior manager of Noida bank arrested for abetting suicide of woman executive

Manager of multinational bank arrested for abetting suicide of woman executive in Ghaziabad. Colleagues named in FIR. Victim faced harassment, ended life.

Police registered an FIR under BNS section 108 (for abetting suicide) at Nandgram police station and the FIR named several of the deceased woman’s colleagues, including a woman executive (Representational image)

Noida

Updated on Jul 19, 2024 05:34 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad cop kills self after making video accusing woman friend, 2 others of extortion

The constable in the video said the trio extorted about ₹6 lakh from him in the past two years and his woman friend issued threats to implicate him in a false rape case if he did not pay them more money

The FIR was registered under Section 108 (abetting suicide) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Muradnagar police station. The two women have been arrested and charges for extortion and provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act added to the FIR. (Representational image only)

Noida

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 05:52 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: 320 UPSRTC buses to ferry Kanwariyas to Haridwar

The move is likely to create bus availability issues for commuters as the Ghaziabad region has an estimated daily ridership of about 125,000 passengers

About 200 buses from Ghaziabad and another 120 from Hapur, Bulandshahr and Khurja, will be deployed for ferrying Kanwariyas. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:30 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: Woman bank executive ends life alleging harassment by colleagues; FIR lodged

Family members of the woman said she was upset by repeated instances of harassment at her workplace and she had told them about these incidents about three-four days before her death on July 12

One of her woman colleagues made disparaging comments about her appearance after seeing the photo and that hurt her. They would also casually hit her on her shoulder or rudely brush past her while going by her seat, the woman’s brother said. (Image for representation purposes only)

Noida

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:10 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad commuters to use NH-9, Eastern Peripheral Expressway during Kanwar Yatra

The major impact of Kanwariyas will be on the Delhi-Meerut Road, used by commuters from Delhi, Ghaziabad to Meerut to move between the three cities and towards Uttarakhand

Officers said the diversion routes will be finalised and rolled out soon and they will be policed by a contingent of civil police and 650 traffic police personnel, of all ranks. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 06:00 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: 7 arrested over running obscene chat centre in Sahibabad

The gang was operating for last one month in Sector-3, Rajendra Nagar and police got a tip off after a woman from Raj Nagar Extension complained

The complainant woman reported that she was called for an interview at a flat on July 4, and on visiting the place, she was asked to take the job that involved undressing herself before cameras and indulge in chats with customers. (Representative image)

Noida

Updated on Jul 14, 2024 06:48 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad: City forest all set for revival after 16 years with Hindon biodiversity park

The proposed land was home to fully grown trees in 2008. But hundreds of them were destroyed due to overflowing sewage water from a city drain

The 63-acre patch is one of only two “city forests” earmarked under Master Plan 2021, the other one is about 100-acre land at Karhera, behind the Hindon airbase. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 14, 2024 06:36 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Ghaziabad: 14-yr-old girl raped, police file suo motu FIR

Police registered the FIR suo motu as neither the victim nor her family came forward to file a complaint

Police suspect that the family has knowledge about the suspect, and it is either due to fear or maybe the suspect is connected to the family, they are not revealing details. (Representative image)

Noida

Updated on Jul 14, 2024 06:32 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

No sarus crane sighted in Ghaziabad in summer census

As per the UP information department data, the census was conducted on June 20-21 and the count revealed presence of 19,918 sarus cranes in total -- a rise of 396 from 2023

In Ghaziabad, the forest department over the years has reported sighting of a pair of sarus crane in agricultural fields near Rawli-Surana Road in Muradnagar. However, the pair was not sighted during the recently concluded survey. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 13, 2024 06:04 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Two cousins shot dead by relative in Ghaziabad after verbal spat, 3 arrested

The relationship between Anuj and Naveen was strained, they had a telephonic conversation before the incident and there was a heated exchange of words

Prime suspect Anuj’s father was also present at the scene of crime and he had bloodstains on his clothes. All three were arrested for murder. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 13, 2024 06:02 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

UGC road project: NGT seeks satellite imaging, directs UP to stop illegal tree felling

The ₹658-crore proposed road project is to be taken up by the UP public works department (PWD), and will be funded by the state government

The green tribunal has also directed the UP government to ensure that no “illegal felling of trees” takes place along the proposed stretch. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 12, 2024 06:06 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

GDA plans ‘Naya Ghaziabad’ township near RRTS corridor

The new township, ”Naya Ghaziabad (new Ghaziabad)”, will extend the spread of Ghaziabad city and will accommodate about 5,000 residences

The new township will be provided with RRTS connectivity so that residents can commute easily to various cities in the National Capital Region (NCR), including Delhi. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 12, 2024 05:58 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Old bus stand slated for redevelopment, UPSRTC to relocate buses to Sahibabad

The Sahibabad terminal is about 10 kilometres from the old bus stand. Daily passengers say it will become cumbersome for them to go to Sahibabad and then proceed to their respective destinations

The old bus stand (above) in Ghaziabad, which is spread over 10,000 square metres, is set to be redeveloped at a cost of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>125 crore, UPSRTC officials said on Wednesday. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 11, 2024 05:08 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: Four major routes identified for movement of Kanwariyas

Besides the 55 km DME route from Partapur toll plaza in Meerut, the other three major routes are: a 30km route from Chhajarsi toll plaza on NH-9 to Sector 62, Noida; 35km route from Jani border (Meerut-Ghaziabad border) towards Tila Morh near Loni; and a 45km route from Kadrababad (Ghaziabad-Meerut) border towards Delhi via Delhi-Meerut Road

Among the four routes identified in Ghaziabad is a 55km stretch of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway (above). (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

Noida

Updated on Jul 10, 2024 05:44 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad: Woman held for conducting prenatal sex-determination tests in car

Once the decoy got out of the Santro after the test result was told to her, she signalled the health department teams. The team rushed towards the spot and nabbed the suspect woman with the help of women constables

The suspect used to conduct the tests in a mobile van/car, which she used to station in isolated locations to evade detection, said police. (Representational image)

Noida

Updated on Jul 10, 2024 05:38 AM IST

ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

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