New Delhi, July 10 -- Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday slammed the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh over alleged police action against party leaders and protestors demanding justice for the Dalit woman student Lalita Gautam's murder in Meerut.

Lalita Gautam, a BA final-year student, went missing from the TP Nagar area in Meerut on May 15, and the matter was reported on May 16, police said, adding that her body was recovered from a sugarcane field in the Rohta area of the district on May 17. They said that the main accused has been arrested.

Kharge, in an X post, alleged that UP Police placed Congress leaders under house arrest and "crushed the voice of those demanding justice." He flagged a rise in crime against S...