bakshi ka talab

Second such drowning incident reported in Lucknow’s rural areas in two days

A 30-year-old doctor has been arrested for allegedly raping a 20-year-old patient in a Lucknow private hospital's operation theatre. The incident occurred after the doctor sedated the woman, who was admitted for epilepsy. Following swift intervention by the deputy chief minister, the hospital was sealed and proceedings to suspend the doctor's license initiated.

Bakshi-ka-Talab near Lucknow has an interesting story. Nawab Nasir-ud-din Haidar tasked Bakshi Tripur Chand with buying an elephant. Bakshi disappeared for a long time. Rumors spread about his intentions. He returned and showed the Nawab a pond. Bakshi used the money to create the pond for the people. The Nawab rewarded him. The pond became known as bakshi ka talab.

The bakshi ka talab police registered a case against the father, brother and sister-in-law of a home guard Ramashankar who was allegedly beaten to death by his family following a dispute over property on December 1.

As many as 53 nominations filed for nine assembly constituencies in Lucknow were rejected by the district election office on Friday on grounds that the papers submitted by the candidates were incomplete.

The rape of a minor which took place inside a police outpost on Sunday not only turned out to be a blot on the UP police but, also on the Samajwadi Party government led by Akhilesh Yadav.

Sulphas tablets and bottle containing poisonous solution had been planted at the scene of crime in the bakshi ka talab incident. As per postmortem report, Madhu Pandey was murdered. To make the gruesome crime against the woman appear as suicide, the main accused and live-in partner of the woman left the sulphas tablets at the scene of crime.

A 20-year-old youngster was feared drown when he fell from a bridge in river Gomti while he along with six friends had gone there on an outing in bakshi ka talab police station area on Sunday afternoon.

Lucknow: Human apathy and the vagaries of nature had dealt a severe blow to a ‘talab’, which was once the cynosure of all eyes and had attracted people from far and wide.