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Saurabh Chauhan

Saurabh Chauhan is a correspondent reporting from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, covering Social Welfare, Women and Child Development, Agriculture. Previously reported from Mohali (Punjab), Shimla (HP) and covered Political, Civil Admin, Finance beats.

Articles by Saurabh Chauhan

Missing UP law student who accused BJP leader found in Rajasthan: Cops

The UP law student has been recovered by a police team along with a young man, Additional Director General of Police Bareilly Avinash Chandra told HT.

The woman, a student of the SS Law College in UP’s Shahjahanpur, had gone missing. Her parents blamed Swarmi Chinmayanand for her disappearance(ANI / Twitter)
Updated on Aug 30, 2019 12:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By

Case against Chinmayanand: Missing woman ‘spotted’ in Delhi hotel, CCTV footage recovered

The woman is a student of SS Law College in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur. Chinmayanand is chairman of the college. His lawyer has alleged a conspiracy to blackmail the politician to extort money.

UP Director General of Police (DGP) OP Singh has said, “We are investigating both cases (disappearance of the woman and extortion). We have some clues and the case will be solved very soon.”(File photo: PTI)
Updated on Aug 29, 2019 07:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

SC intervention sought in case against ex-MP

Chinmayanand’s lawyer has alleged that there was a conspiracy to blackmail the politician to extort money.

The advocates urged Gogoi to take cognizance of the case even as the CJI asked them to move the appropriate court, the Allahabad high court(HT FILE)
Updated on Aug 29, 2019 12:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

Ex-BJP MP Swami Chinmayanand booked for allegedly kidnapping UP law student

The woman, a student of SS Law College in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur, has been missing since she posted the video on her Facebook page on August 24. Three-time MP Chinmayanand is chairman of the college.

Three-time MP Chinmayanand is chairman of SS Law College in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur.(Photo Courtesy: Livehindustan)
Updated on Aug 28, 2019 08:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

Childhood photo helps reunite trafficked girl

HT Image
Published on Aug 24, 2019 09:33 PM IST
BySaurabh Chauhan (English Content Management- Mohali - Chandigarh)

Bhojpuri songs talk about marrying Kashmiri women, buying land in Valley

A song by popular Bhojpuri artiste OP Raj imagines a scene where a Kashmiri bride is brought to UP in a palanquin. The song has attracted over 300,000 viewers.

A poster of a bhojpuri song that talks about marrying a Kashmiri woman.(Sourced)
Updated on Aug 23, 2019 11:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By, Lucknow

AIIMS asks Meerut woman suffering from heart condition to wait until 2025 for surgery

A resident of Ahmadnagar (Meerut), Nasreen suffers from mitral valve prolapse.

A building of private ward at campus of AIIMS, in New Delhi.(SANJEEV VERMA/Hindustan Times)
Updated on Aug 22, 2019 11:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

Lucknow man booked for rape of daughters, wife held for abetting abuse

Station house officer Sachin Kumar Singh said they are interrogating the mother about the whereabouts of her husband.

In her police complaint, the 21-year-old survivor has alleged that her father had been sexually abusing her for 15 years. She said her father also wrote a sexually explicit letter to her around a year ago.(HT image)
Updated on Aug 20, 2019 08:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

21-year-old Lucknow woman accuses father of sexually abusing her and minor sister

The 21-year-old woman had complained to the local Asha Jyoti Kendra in-charge that her father had impregnated her, given her pills for abortion and also molested her younger sister.

In her complaint, the woman said that while she had silently suffered her own abuse for years, she decided to speak up when she saw her father molesting her sister.(AP)
Updated on Aug 19, 2019 10:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By, Lucknow

UP plans to check sale,use of sub-standard helmets

State makes BIS-approved helmet compulsory, manufacturers to be asked to uniquely number products.

The government plans to ask manufacturers to allot a unique identity number to the helmets.(HT photo (Representational image))
Updated on Aug 18, 2019 12:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times,Lucknow | By

‘Kranti’ against child marriage in a village in UP’s Bahraich

Eldest among four siblings, Kranti became a part of NGO Dehat’s ‘Child Parliament’ initiative in Bahraich.

The Class 10 student of Acharya Ramesh Chandra Inter College said she came to know about her family’s plans for her marriage earlier this month.(HT image)
Updated on Aug 14, 2019 10:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

Umbha children stop going to school located in village of accused in Sonbhadra

Yagya Dutt is among the 28 people named in the FIR in connection with the incident. Murtiya village is the only option for these schoolchildren as Umbha has no upper primary school.

Villagers gather at the site where atleast 9 people were gunned down over a property dispute on July 18, 2019.(PTI)
Updated on Aug 09, 2019 07:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

Rights panel asks education dept to enrol shelter home children in UP schools

So far, only informal education is imparted to children in shelter homes and they do not get any certificate or educational proof for this.

The rights panel on August 5 directed the department to identify children in each shelter home and enrol them in local schools.(HT Photo)
Updated on Aug 09, 2019 11:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By, Lucknow

MP, MLAs among 10,000 who visited Sengar in Sitapur jail, reveals CBI probe

A Delhi court on Monday directed that Kuldeep Singh Sengar be shifted to Tihar jail from Sitapur jail.

In the last 14 months, expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who is accused of raping an Unnao girl and attempting to kill her, had more than 10, 000 visitors in Sitapur jail, where he was lodged till now.(Subhankar Chakraborty/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Aug 05, 2019 08:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

Unnao case: Truck owner reiterates number plates blackened to avoid seizure

The non-banking finance company-- Orix Leasing and Financial Services Limited -- on Saturday had, however, denied having threatened to seize the truck or issued any seizure notice in the past.

Raebareli: People stand near the site of accident in which the Unnao rape survivor was seroiusly injured after the car in which she was travelling collided with a truck, near Raebareli.(PTI)
Updated on Aug 04, 2019 07:53 PM IST
Lucknow | By

Unnao case: Truck was not on seizure notice as claimed by owner

During interrogation on Monday the owner had told the police that he had smeared its number plate with black paint to dodge the finance company.

The truck involved in the Rae Bareli mishap, in which Unnao rape survivor and her lawyer got critically injured and two of her aunts died on Sunday(PTI)
Updated on Aug 03, 2019 11:42 PM IST
Lucknow | By

Lawyer wrote to authorities about threats: Unnao rape survivor’s relative

The lawyer, who was driving the car, has been listed as a witness by the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI), which is probing the case.

In the letter, the lawyer said that he was an advocate as well as a witness in the Unnao rape case and his application for a gun licence was s stuck because of alleged influence and pressure from the people in power.(HT Photo)
Updated on Aug 02, 2019 01:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

Injured Unnao case lawyer too faced threats; had sought arms licence

Both the rape survivor and the lawyer sustained critical injuries, while two of her aunts died, in a car-truck collision in Rae Bareli on Sunday.

The truck that rammed into a car carrying Unnao rape victim, her relatives and her lawyer.(HT Photo)
Updated on Aug 01, 2019 07:28 PM IST
Lucknow | By

Unnao survivor still on ventilator, accident case goes to CBI

Sengar is alleged to have raped the woman at his residence in 2017. The woman’s father died last year in a jail where he was lodged in an alleged false case.

Uttar Pradesh police have booked Sengar, currently in jail in the rape case, his brother and around two dozen others for murder, attempted murder and conspiracy.(HT FILE)
Updated on Jul 31, 2019 06:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

‘Mother informed Unnao police about threats on July 13’

She has now demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the matter and alleged a conspiracy behind the road accident in which her daughter was critically injured while their two relatives were killed.

Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav along with supporters gathered for a silent protest in solidarity with the Unnao rape case victim.(Burhaan Kinu/ Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jul 30, 2019 08:45 AM IST
ByHaidar Naqvi and Saurabh Chauhan

Murder case against jailed BJP legislator Kuldeep Sengar after rape survivor’s accident

Unnao rape survivor’s two aunts died in the crash. She and her lawyer are on life support. The family has alleged the car accident was a “conspiracy”.

Unnao rape case: Murder case has been filed against accused BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Sengar after the rape survivor met with a car crash on Sunday.(Twitter image)
Updated on Jul 29, 2019 08:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

UP ‘forgets’ about its kids sent for training

The official concerned in the directorate of Women and Child Development department here could not be reached.

Twenty shelter home kids (14-18 years old), including 4 girls, were sent to the special shelter home cum institute set by Empowerment of Children and Human Rights Organisation (ECHO) in Karnataka’s Bengaluru in June last year.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Updated on Jul 27, 2019 02:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times,Lucknow | By

20th Kargil Vijay Diwas - ‘Today, his name is my identity’: Rifleman Sunil Jung Mahat’s mother

20th Kargil Vijay Diwas: “Had this war not happened, we would have been in Dharamshala and Sunil would have promoted to the rank of Subedar,” Sunil Jung Mahat’s mother Beena said.

Shortly before the Kargil war broke out, rifleman Sunil Jung Mahat’s family was excitedly planning its relocation to its ancestral home in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh.(MANISH SWARUP/HT (Representative image))
Updated on Jul 26, 2019 07:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

UP Roadways bus accident: Unfavourable work conditions make it difficult for drivers

The UP Roadways has more than twice the number of contract drivers compared to the regular drivers – 14,700 contract drivers and 6039 regular drivers.

Mangled remains of a UP Roadways bus after it fell into a drain off the Yamuna Expressway near Agra, killing 29 passengers, July 8, 2019.(PTI)
Published on Jul 10, 2019 02:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

‘Papa, you have grown old’

Reunited with father after 14 years of caged life as a bonded labourer, the Jharkhand girl rescued on Friday told her father that he had grown old. She also asked whether or not her mother was alive and choked with emotion.

“I do not remember the month or date. We were brought and asked to work in different houses. I was told that I would get Rs. 3000 to Rs. 4000 in the beginning and later the wages would increase. But I was not paid anything.”(Dheeraj Dhawan/ HT Photo)
Updated on Jul 08, 2019 03:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By, Lucknow

UP: Higher gender budget a breather but missing old data a big challenge

The fund flow is to be increased since the centre has increased the gender budget from R1.25lakh cr to R1.37lakh cr.

No state is achiever (top category) in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) - 5 that is gender equality, but Uttar Pradesh is third last in the tally prepared by the NITI aayog earlier this year.(Representative image)
Published on Jul 08, 2019 03:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By, Lucknow

‘UP will have to create more jobs to check migration’

With the size of working population is expected to decline in 11 out of the 22 major states during 2031-41 and working population is likely to rise in Uttar Pradesh (UP) in the same period, the state will have to create more jobs and enhance the productivity of youths to check migration.

“If employment is not generated, the migration trend will rise in UP as people will migrate to those states where the working age population is declining.”(Representative image/Shutterstock)
Published on Jul 08, 2019 03:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By, Lucknow

Abandoned on train, 9-year-old gets Spanish parents

The process for adoption has been on for last six months.

An adoption centre in Maharashtra, India.(Satish Bate /HT Photo)
Published on Jun 30, 2019 02:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

UP’s malnutrition fight needs more steam

Challenge: State has 2100 non-functional Anganwadi Centres with 46% stunted and 40% underweight children

Uttar Pradesh failed to spend almost half of the allocated funds for setting up AWCs in 2017-18 while Rs. 90cr remained unspent in 2016-17.(Representative image)
Updated on Jun 27, 2019 01:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By, Lucknow
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