Members of a Congress delegation slated to visit families who lost children and women to attacks by a man-eating leopard in Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh, were put under house arrest by the police on Tuesday (September 23, 2025).
The incident set off an uproar, with State U.P. Congress president Ajay Rai alleging that the police action showed the “insensitivity and dictatorship” of the State government, which wanted to silent the Opposition and other democratic voices.






