The Manipur Police personnel allegedly drove the two women from the Kuki-Zomi community, who had sought refuge in their official Gypsy, to a mob of around 1,000 Meiti rioters in Kangpokpi district, the Central Bureau of Investigation chargesheet has said.
Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump is relying on support from billionaires and big corporations, while hers is a people powered campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris said on Tuesday addressing her first election rally, a day after she became the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
The girl's mother alleged that her daughter was "inappropriately touched" by a classmate.
'It is natural for parents to want to keep their children safe.' 'But there's a difference between putting up firewalls to protect them and snooping on them 24X7,' says Shuma Raha.
When one of them apparently tried to speak to a girl child, the villagers, who had gathered for the weekly Sunday market, pounced on them.
'If she manages to throw out people, go for surgical operations, clean up her image, she will be victorious.'
While we sensitise our children about good touch and bad touch and tell them to watch for signals outside the house, how can one prepare them for keeping a watch for the same at home? asks Aarti David.
"Is being part of Modi's 'political family' a 'guarantee of protection' for criminals?" Rahul Gandhi asked.
Amidst police security and confusion, classes resumed on Monday at the private school in Bangalore where a three-and-a-half-year-old girl student was sexually abused last week.
Police said they registered a case on Saturday under provisions of the POCSO Act and the IPC, and arrested the accused.
Most of the child victims of sexual assault in India face humiliation while undergoing medical tests apart from the police who often do not believe their account, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
The sexual assault on a 3-and-half-year-old girl student at a school has been confirmed by doctors, as police on Wednesday intensified the probe into the horrific incident which evoked protest from parents.
Shocked and anguished at the rape of a five-year-old girl here, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday called for urgent introspection to identify causes behind repeated failure of society to ensure security of women and children.
The district and sessions court also convicted three others in the case, including a driver of the Women and Child Development Minister, and awarded them three months rigorous imprisonment. They were also fined Rs 15,500 each by the court of district and sessions judge Urmila Joshi.
The top court was hearing a plea filed by Tushar Gandhi, the great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, seeking speedy investigation in the case.
After meeting party leaders in the area, Majumdar went straight to Sandeshkhali police station and later started a sit-in outside it.
The Delhi high court on Thursday asked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to take down his social media post which revealed the identity of a minor Dalit girl, raped and murdered in 2021, so that the child's identity is protected worldwide.
"Initial reading of the post-mortem report does not suggest any sexual assault. The death was due to drowning," says Bassi.
The child after returning home on Thursday from her school - G D Birla Centre for Education - kept on crying and complained of severe pain. Her mother spotted blood stains on her clothes, he said. The girl told her mother that the physical training teacher had taken her to the washroom but could not narrate what happened thereafter.
The apex court also asked the the high courts to instruct the trial courts not to grant unnecessary adjournments during trial of cases.
The man was caught from near the Aluva bridge on Thursday evening where he was drinking alcohol. The suspect attempted to escape from the police by jumping into the nearby river and swimming away, but was caught with the help of local residents and pulled out of the water.
Delhi Water Minister Atishi ended her indefinite fast over the water scarcity in the national capital after she was hospitalised early Tuesday, Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said.
Usman Australia's Usman Khawaja was reprimanded by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday for sporting a black armband after the global body's rules prevented him from wearing shoes with messages of support for Gaza in a Test against Pakistan.
Brinda examines some alarming aspects of religious fanaticism through the narrative engine of a well-oiled serial killer mystery, observes Arjun Menon.
The Governor of the US state of Alabama has apologised for the "unfortunate" use of excessive force by police against an Indian grandfather early this month that left him partially paralysed.
Words like eve-teasing, prostitute, and housewife may soon be out of the legal lexicon and will be replaced by terms like street sexual harassment, sex worker and homemaker.
Murray Denis Ward, 54, allegedly inappropriately touched the three NAB inmates on September 2, the police said.
Twenty-three-year-old Joginder Singh has been charged with sexual penetration and indecent acts with a child under 16, ABC reported, adding Magistrate Richard Pithouse remanded him in custody.
In yet another incident that raises question about safety of minor girls in schools, a woman teacher was detained in Bengaluru for questioning for an alleged "assault" of a 5-year-old girl by her.
Doctor who conducted the post-mortem says the child died of excessive bleeding.
Under the stewardship of the then TMC national general secretary Mukul Roy and North 24 Parganas TMC district president Jyotipriyo Mullick, he joined the party and quickly ascended in power, becoming a close associate of Mullick.
The government has asked Twitter and other social media platforms to take down a video of two Manipur women paraded naked, since the matter is being probed.
Shah said the new laws would give priority to providing justice, unlike the colonial-era laws that gave primacy to penal action, and made reporting of crimes even easier by recognising e-FIR, Zero FIR and electronic or digital evidence.
Slamming Hamas, the IDF further said the terror group "embraces the ideology of Hitler", the one responsible for the "annihilation" of the Jewish people.
Images from the T20 World Cup Super Eight Group 2 match between the West Indies and South Africa, in Antigua.
A paternal aunt of the teenager allegedly involved in the Pune Porsche car crash that killed two IT professionals last month has moved the Bombay high court claiming the boy was in 'illegal' detention and sought his immediate release.
An Indian-origin Sikh man, described as a 'higher-level figure' in the organised crime scene in Canada, and his 11-year-old son were shot and killed in what police have called a 'sick and twisted' escalation of gang violence in the city of Edmonton.
'When a BJP MP was accused of harassment and molestation by our champion wrestlers, we did not hear one word out of the women and child development minister'
While many reports suggest it was an honour killing, the police have refused to accept that angle.
'You want to create a law to give the death penalty to those who kill cows.' 'But you don't want to give the death penalty to the man who rapes an 8-month-old baby.'
