Overview
- Vice chancellor Soniya Nityanand briefed chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who backed KGMU and confirmed the STF is handling the investigation.
- KGMU’s Vishakha committee found the allegations prima facie true, and the university has decided to expel the junior resident from the MD course.
- The joint committee of staff deferred an OPD shutdown to January 14 after the VC assured an FIR would be filed over the January 9 ruckus at the VC’s office.
- Lucknow police questioned Pilibhit city qazi Zahid Hasan Rana about an alleged nikah linked to the case as compliance with the state’s conversion law is examined.
- Investigators recovered the accused’s phone with chats deleted and are conducting forensic analysis while arrests and detentions, including of his parents, feed a widening probe that police sources say may involve PFI-linked contacts.