Number of cases in UP is highly unreliable, as the current State government is known to be obsessed with maintaining its image and for causing problems for anyone who raises voice against it. It didn't even spare people asking for SOS on twitter -
https://scroll.in/latest/993484/up-fir-filed-against-man-who...
It is also the state, where the police recently took an oxygen cylinder from a patient for someone who was politically connected [Police wouldn't have done anything this severe, unless they were forced to do the same] (https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/twitter-furious-over-c...)