GHAZIABAD - A former chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh was Tuesday held guilty of wrongfully allotting a plot during her tenure as Noida authority chief and sentenced to four years' imprisonment by a court here.

FATEHABAD - Three students of a polytechnic in Haryana have been booked for ragging a junior who consumed poison due to harassment, police said Tuesday. The three accused are absconding.

LUCKNOW - A bandit wanted in several cases including murder and abduction was gunned down by police in a forested area of Uttar Pradesh's Chitrakoot district Tuesday, an official said.

NEW DELHI - In the wake of the gangrape of a BPO employee from Mizoram here, MPs from northeast will meet Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Wednesday to discuss the safety of women from the region in the city.

GHAZIABAD - A former chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh was Tuesday held guilty by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court here of wrongfully allotting a plot during her tenure as Noida authority chief.