Two brothers arrested in connection with a recent incident of sacrilege in Faridkot were released on Monday, with police now saying there was not enough evidence against them.
The Union health ministry said West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh reported a casualty each on Monday, taking the total number of deaths to nine in the country due to COVID-19.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday appealed to self-styled godman Sant Rampal to present himself before the court in a "peaceful manner", saying one must give utmost priority to uphold the dignity of the judicial system.
Veteran BJP leader Kaptan Singh Solanki was sworn-in as the new Governor of Haryana on Sunday.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
Hurriyat Conference leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Bilal Lone were on Thursday manhandled allegedly by a group of Kashmiri Pandit activists who stormed a seminar being attended by them in Chandigarh.
"Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency imparted the training to Gurpreet Singh," said Punjab Director-General of Police N P S Aulakh. Gurpreet Singh and two other suspected Babbar Khalsa militants were arrested near the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar on December 25. Aulakh said that Gurpreet went to Pakistan with a jatha of Sikh pilgrims and he was trained with another terrorist Harminder Singh. Gurpreet returned in mid-2007 to revive the terrorist module in the state.
Justice Jagdeep Singh read out the verdict as soon as the special CBI Court began the hearing on the case on Friday.
Security forces in Amritsar and other areas of the state have been asked to remain on alert ahead of the 31st anniversary of Operation Bluestar on Saurday.
Moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq faced protests from members of BJP's student wing who hurled eggs at his vehicle in Kolkata and diplayed banners, prompting police to arrest 25 of them, three days after he was heckled by right-wing activists in Chandigarh.
In a shocking incident, a 40-year-old woman was allegedly raped by two Haryana Armed Police personnel and a civilian near Governor A R Kidwai's official residence in Chandigarh in the wee hours of Thursday.
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to former Haryana director general of police SPS Rathore who was sentenced to an 18-month jail term in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.Ruchika, 14, a budding tennis player, had committed suicide three years after being molested by Rathore on August 12, 1990. A sessions court had on May 25 enhanced Rathore's jail term from six months to one-and-a-half years while allowing the plea of Central Bureau of Investigation.
A tweet by the Press Information Bureau said the states which have imposed lockdown in all districts include Chandigarh, Delhi, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir and Nagaland. The other states are: Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Ladakh, Tripura, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Jharkhand, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Haryana, Daman Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Karnataka and Assam.
Harinder Singh Bains, the Sikh-American, who helped police capture the man wanted for the weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey, said he feared he might have been mistaken as the perpetrator because of the misconceptions about his faith.
A senior police officer said that DNA mapping would take 35 to 45 days.
'The main reason people go to other countries is unemployment in Punjab'
SPS Rathore's counsel on Wednesday told a court in Chandigarh hearing his plea challenging his conviction in the Ruchika molestation case that Aradhana, the prime witness in the case, was planted against the former Haryana director general of police due to rivalry between two lawn tennis associations of Panchkula.
Former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore would have to undergo his 18-month prison term with the Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday dismissing his plea challenging the sentence awarded to him for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra about 20 years back.
North India was shaken by an earthquake of 5.7 magnitude on Richter Scale this evening but there was no immediate report of any loss of life or property. The quake occurred at 5:02 pm, the Indian Meteorological Department said.
The deadline given by the Haryana police to controversial 'godman' Rampal to surrender and his followers to vacate his ashram has ended. Police said that water and electricity connection to the ashram have been cut off.
After being stripped of his police medal, SPS Rathore's pension has been witheld completely in another blow to the disgraced ex-DGP of Haryana jailed for molesting minor girl Ruchika Girhotra.
Army was on Friday called in for deployment in eight districts of Haryana after one person was killed and 21 were injured in police action as Jat stir for quota turned violent and the rampaging mobs set ablaze the house of state's Finance Minister besides several government and private properties.
The two, identified as Huzaifa of Abhinandan Bag Centre and the shop manager Poonam Singh Thakur, were taken to Panipat or Chandigarh after seeking permission of the court for further probe.
Incidents of arson, firing and vandalism were reported from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Punjab as protesters agitated against the dilution of the SC/ST Act.
As stalwart midfielder Sardar Singh called time on his illustrious International career, Hockey India on Friday congratulated the 32-year-old Khel Ratna awardee on his long-serving career that spanned over 12 years.
The private bus (bearing registration number HP 66-7065) fell into the over 300-metre-deep nullah near the Dhoth Morh in Banjar tehsil of the district, Kullu Superintendent of Police Shalini Agnihotri said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation that has begun its investigation into all fresh cases filed against former Director General of Police SPS Rathore relating to the molestation of Ruchika Girhotra, will meet with Ruchika's father Subhash Chander Girhotra along with her friend Aradhana's father Anand Prakash at their Chandigarh camp office on Friday.
A court in Chandigarh on Thursday will pronounce its verdict on former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore''s plea challenging his conviction in Ruchika molestation case.
Sub-Divisional Magistrate Prerna Puri on Thursday submitted her report of the inquiry into the alleged expulsion of Ruchika Girhotra from the Sacred Heart School in Chandigarh to the Union Territory Administration.
The Chandigarh Administration has ordered a probe against the school which had expelled Ruchika Girhotra after her molestation by former Haryana Director General of Police S P S Rathore. The probe, ordered by Education Secretary Ram Niwas, has been initiated to ascertain the causes which led to the expulsion of then 14-year old Ruchika, official sources said in Chandigarh on Monday.
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A local court in Chandigarh will hear the petitions of disgraced former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore on a day-to-day basis from May 3 challenging his conviction for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra and of Central Bureau of Investigation and the victim's family seeking enhancement of his six months sentence.
Disgraced former Haryana director general of police SPS Rathore, who was sentenced to 18-months in prison by a Chandigarh court in the Ruchika molestation case, on Wednesday filed a review petition in the Punjab and Haryana high court and sought bail. Rathore's lawyer-wife Abha Rathore filed the review petition on his behalf in the court of Justice S S Saron. She alleged that the appellate court had on Tuesday passed the order 'under media pressure'.
A sessions court in Chandigarh on Thursday deferred the pronouncement of the verdict on the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case to May 25. Former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore has been accused of molesting the teenager 20 years ago. Faced with constant harassment by the state police and authorities, Ruchika had committed suicide three years later. Rathore was convicted of molesting Ruchika on December 21, 2009.
The central government had also sent a team of doctors to Kashmir Valley to treat youths injured due to firing by pellet guns.
'I am happy that at least the UIDAI has taken some action on my report'
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda indicated on Saturday that a first information report under abetment to suicide complaint filed two days ago by Ruchika's brother might be registered once investigations are completed.
Sixteen years after Ruchika Girhotra, a promising young tennis star who was led to commit suicide 16 years ago after she was molested by former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, her friends and acquaintances remembered her.
A public interest litigation (PIL) will be filed against the Chandigarh-based Sacred Heart School, where Ruchika Girhotra studied. The school had expelled her under pressure from former Haryana Director General of Police (DGP) SPS Rathore, the man who molested her.
The move came after the Uttar Pradesh government on July 3 gave the green signal for filing of the chargesheet.
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