The ambulance was used to ferry mafia don Mukhtar Ansari from the Ropar jail to Mohali court in Punjab earlier this month.
The victim, Meenakshi Singh, 28, was seven months pregnant and was staying with her parents.
In a letter sent to the Chief Minister on Monday evening, the Congress leader drew his attention to the fast-deteriorating Covid-19 situation in districts of UP, particularly Lucknow.
The lockdown will remain in force till April 26 as of now.
The infected police officers and other staff have been placed under home quarantine and the Hayat Nagar police station has been sealed for the next 48 hours for sanitisation and disinfection.
The police had arrested Prashant and two others, including Mohan Soni and Haryana resident Sachin Kumar, on charges of black marketing of Remdesivir vials.
Similarly, the government has also ramped up surveillance at airports, railway stations and bus stops. Those with symptoms are being tested while others are being asked to quarantine at home.
Voting will be held from 7 am to 6 pm with over 3.23 crore voters eligible to exercise their franchise. The second phase assumes significance as state capital Lucknow and Varanasi will go to polls in this round.
According to police, the accused, identified as Kamlesh, informed the police on Friday that the village pradhan candidate Braj Mohan and his aides came to his house and thrashed him.
According to doctors, the brothers had pneumonia and their condition deteriorated fast. They died after complaining of breathlessness. While the eldest one died at home, the two others died during treatment at a hospital.
The holy city has also witnessed a surge in COVID-19 cases like other major urban centres of Uttar Pradesh.
Of the new fatalities linked to the virus, 36 were reported from state capital Lucknow, followed by 15 from Kanpur, eight from Varanasi, four each from Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar and Jaunpur among other districts.
Sugarcane Development Minister Suresh Rana and Additional Chief Secretary of the Information Department, Navneet Sehgal, have also tested positive for Covid-19. Lucknow District Magistrate Abhishek Prakash has also been infected with the virus.
Aptly named ”Kisan Balidan Smarak”, the memorial will be spread across one acre of land in Meerut.
The state had on Thursday reported 104 deaths and 22,439 fresh cases, pushing the fatality count to 9,480 and the total infection number to 7,66,360.
Yashwant Singh, 56, was reported positive for coronavirus on April 2, following which he was admitted to a private hospital in Lucknow where he died on Thursday, Manish Singh, Divisional Forest Officer, Bahraich, said.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Avinash Pandey said that forensic and dog squad teams have visited the crime spot for collecting evidence.
In an order passed by District Magistrate Jasjit Kaur on Wednesday, the community health centre’s incharge, Rambir Singh, was transferred in connection with the case.
The victim, a former village head, was contesting the elections and his rival was the outgoing village head, who is again contesting the elections.
Aminabad, which is one of the biggest wholesale and retail markets in the state capital, will remain closed till April 22 while Hazratganj will remain closed till April 18.
The fate of over 56 lakh UP students, slated to undertake the state education board examinations for classes 10 and 12 from May 8, now hangs in balance.
Half an hour before the curfew deadline began, people stopped by to ask the crowds about the ‘fire show’ and when told, they stopped in their tracks.
Adityanath, who received the first dose of vaccine earlier this month, has been campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party in poll-bound West Bengal.
Apart from this, private labs and hospitals are also expected to be acquired in order to increase the medical infrastructure in the state to cope with increasing Covid cases.
Yadav had recently visited Haridwar where the Kumbh Mela is underway and met various religious leaders, including Akhara Parishad chairman Mahant Narendra Giri who had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier.