'Tamil Nadu is a state of temples, it's a holy land. People don't seem to realise that.'
The case against Ahlawat was registered at Yamunanagar police station on June 8 on the charges of sexual harassment of the woman lawyer in 2002 when he was the then Superintendent of Police (SP) of Yamunanagar.
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A poll update from a village in Maharashtra.
The prime minister touched upon many issues including scrapping of Article 370, triple talaq and many more.
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Cases of crimes against women, including rape and dowry deaths, are on the rise in Assam, where women have traditionally been held in high esteem by the society.Official sources informed that as many as 20,134 cases of crime against women were registered in Assam between 2005 and 2008, out of which 6133 cases were in 2005-06, 6724 cases in 2006-07 and 7297 cases in 2007-08.There has been a discernible rise in registered cases of rape and abduction of women in the state.
A selfie clicked by the member of Rajasthan State Commission for Women with a rape victim courted controversy prompting the chairperson of the commission to seek a written explanation.
'I feel like I came to the industry just day before yesterday, even though it's more than 30 years now.'
A selfie clicked by a member of the Rajasthan State Commission for Women with a rape victim has created a major controversy prompting the chairperson of the commission to seek a written explanation.
The application has been filed to oppose a batch of petitions on which the apex court had in 2018 issued notices to the Centre and other stakeholders while referring the matter to a 5-judge Constitution bench.
In view of rising incidence of crime against women, Assam chief minister Tarun Kumar Gogoi has set one-month deadline for the State's Home and Political Department to prepare a detail action plan to prevent and control such incidents.
Justices Imtiyaz Murtaza and V K Verma also asked the Uttar Pradesh government and the complainant Madhvendra Singh to file their counter-affidavits.
What is a migrant going through today on the walk home? What is it like to be a Muslim and watch the news on television every night in India? Is there a bureaucrat who is noting down the absurdity of what is announced and what is actually happening in her domain? A medical resident who has gone through three weeks of 12-hour shifts while her seniors abstain from coming to the Covid hospital? They may be our everyday experiences, but they are how history will understand what happened to us all in this strange and surreal time, points out Aakar Patel.
Rediff Labs analysed Kerala state's number of crime against women under different crime heads such as rape, kidnapping, assault to outrage her modesty, dowry deaths, immoral traffic for the last 10 years.
The incident comes against the backdrop of a raging debate on lack of scrutiny of the curriculum and content taught in schools.
''Laws are made for every citizen to get justice.' 'If there is abuse of law, then the law will have its own course correction mechanism also.'
Laws for the protection of women are being misused to harass men of late, T Murugaiyan, the president of the association told a press conference.
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to entrust the anti-dowry case registered against Arjun Singh and his family members to the CBI.
Amendment to the Juvenile Justice Act has been cleared by the Lok Sabha and is awaiting clearance from the Upper House.
Delhi high court on Thursday protected controversial Aam Aadmi Party MLA Somnath Bharti from arrest by directing the police not to take any coercive steps till pronouncement of judgement on his plea for anticipatory bail in a case of domestic violence lodged by his wife.
Jahida reported the matter to police in Malerkotla but they expressed their inability to intervene to prevent Yaseen's remarriage.
With the increase in Indian Diaspora and consequently overseas marriages, the number of such failed marriage cases is on the rise.
'We will talk to Muslim, Christian organisations and form a broad alliance so that every temple, church and mosque will have freedom to manage their affairs and not to be intervened upon.'
The most strident criticism of UP's anti-conversion ordinance has come from the judiciary with several retired Supreme Court and high court judges having described it as being violative of Article 14 (Right to Equality), 15 (Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion), 21 (Right to Life) and 25 (Freedom of conscience) of the Constitution, points out Rashme Sehgal.
What needs to be done to make Mumbai even more attractive is to provide more residential accommodation and faster transport to the southern end of the city (Nariman Point), which is the Manhattan of India.
'This Ram Navami -- the birth anniversary of Lord Ram -- presents the majority community an opportunity to shed its minority complex and offer an olive branch and discrimination- free society to the minority,' suggests Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
The FIR was registered on Monday by the suburban Borivali police after TV actress Dolly Bindra accused Radhe Maa of intimidation, sexual harassment and voyeurism.
A new complaint was on Wednesday filed at the suburban Borivali police station in Mumbai against 'godwoman' Radhe Maa alleging her involvement in promoting superstition.
Deepak Pandey was booked by Azad Maidan police station in Mumbai with charges of subjecting his wife Nidhi Pandey, an IAS officer, to cruelty (section 498-A, IPC) and criminal intimidation (section 506, IPC).
"Does the offence of indecency and obscenity under section 110 of the Bombay Police Act stand against her (Radhe Maa) as she (Radhe Maa) claims that it happened inside four walls?" the high court asked.
Honeypreet Insan's former husband also claimed that the self-styled godman used to organise a 'Bigg Boss'-like show in his secret cave involving couples.
In its latest report, "Crime in India", the bureau says a total of 5,531,172 cognisable crimes were registered, of which 1,780,330 were crime covered by the Indian Penal Code.
Seizing on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's poll promise of 'bigger than Rs 50,000-crore' financial package for Bihar, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said.
Dinesh and Mithulal demanded Rs two lakh and a car from Kishan Mehrania, bride Hemlata's father.
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