The shortcomings of India’s criminal justice system extend far beyond Uttar Pradesh. Just last month, the 69 defendants accused of perpetrating the 2002 Naroda Gam massacre in Ahmedabad were all acquitted.

India's Supreme Court has appointed an arbitration panel to mediate in a decades-long dispute over a religious site in northern Uttar Pradesh state's Ayodhya city.

At least 33 people have tested positive for HIV in Bangarmau town of Uttar Pradesh after an unqualified medical practitioner injected some of them with an infected syringe, a government official says.

At least 21 people, including two policemen, are killed in clashes between police and around 3,000 encroachers at a park of Mathura in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Over 5,000 joined in the celebration of two dogs tying the knot according to traditional Hindu rituals, in the Pawara village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Police in India arrest a woman for beating her mother-in-the law after CCTV footage of the assault goes viral.

An Indian court has rejected a federal police report which had ruled that two teenage girls found hanging from a tree in India last year took their own lives and were not gang-raped and murdered.

A senior leader of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that Muslims living in the country should give up consuming beef.

Police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are left red-faced after charging a toddler with theft.

A 50-year-old man in northern India is killed in a mob lynching allegedly over rumours that his family had been storing and consuming beef at home.

Video of a teenage girl thrashing a youth inside a police station and making him apologise for allegedly eve-teasing her goes viral on social networking sites.

A woman in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh dies after alleging that she was set on fire by two policemen inside a police station after she refused to pay a bribe.

Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit finds herself in legal trouble with the Haridwar Food and Drug Administration for endorsing Maggi noodles.

At least 500 people are reported to have died in a heatwave sweeping India, with temperatures reaching 48C (118F) in some areas.

Indian food inspectors have ordered Nestle India to recall a batch of Maggi noodles from shops across the country, saying the product contained dangerous levels of lead.

10-year-old Shiva Rawat died after being allegedly beaten up by his principal Lalit Kumar Verma on suspicion of stealing pencils.

A passenger train has derailed in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing at least 30 people

A building in northern India has collapsed, killing 13 people believed to be from the same family