LUCKNOW, Nov. 10 -- In a major operation carried out in the early hours of Monday, police in Hapur district shot dead notorious cow slaughterer, Haseen, who had a bounty of Rs.50,000.

Haseen was wanted in around 25 cases across several districts, including charges of cow slaughter, attempted murder, and violations of the Gangster Act.

With more than a month still remaining in 2025, the Uttar Pradesh Police have shot dead 43 criminals so far-including the latest Hapur encounter-during the first ten and a half months of the year. This surpasses the previous record of 41 such killings reported in 2018. Notably, 10 of these encounters involved notorious criminals killed in just the past 36 days.

In the early hours of Monday, Hapur's Kapurp...