{"id":4659,"date":"2026-01-27T02:43:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=4659"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:43:31","slug":"black-law-bareilly-city-magistrate-resigns-over-ugc-rules-makes-big-hostage-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=4659","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Black law\u2019: Bareilly city magistrate resigns over UGC rules; makes big &#8216;hostage&#8217; charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alankar Agnihotri, a 2019-batch Provincial Civil Service officer, sent his resignation by e-mail to Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel and Bareilly District Magistrate Avinash Singh, the officials told news agency PTI. The new rules notified by the UGC on January 13 &#8212; the Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions Regulations, 2026 &#8212; have sparked widespread criticism from general category students who argue that the framework could lead to discrimination against them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alankar Agnihotri, a 2019-batch Provincial Civil Service officer, sent his resignation by e-mail to Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel and Bareilly District Magistrate Avinash Singh, the officials told news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=4659\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}