The disrobed body of a 75-year-old woman inmate of an ashram was found on Wednesday at Katwa, in West Bengal, fuelling allegations of a second rape of a senior citizen in West Bengal in a week.
The inmates at the relief camp said the rioters were all locals and not outsiders. They also said they will only return when authorities assure them of safety.
22 bodies, 13 from Kottayam district and 9 from Idukki were recovered from various rain-hit areas while National Disaster Response Force teams continued their rescue operations.
The arrests were made on the basis of a complaint filed by Rupa Verma on Wednesday, the chairperson of Child Welfare Committee of Ranchi district, they said.
The court extended the judicial custody of Chidambaram after the Central Bureua of Investigation sought extension of the veteran Congress leader's judicial remand.
The deadline to vacate the hostel is Sunday night, or students have to face eviction.
'Mumbai is at a peak, from here it can only be a downward trend.'
'I can't help it if people don't love the minorities, the Dalits and Adivasis; they are as much of this country as any other Indian.' 'If I love them, it does not mean I do not love my country.' 'It is ironic and funny that they have laid such severe anti-national charges against me.'
According to a recent RTI query, UP tops the list for most jailbreaks.
Some people distributed sweets after the convicts were hanged.
Entry of journalists, non-government activists and filmmakers into jails for writing articles or taking interviews of inmates has been banned by the government, except under special requests.
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They are behind bars for heinous crimes but instead of sulking in their cells, some high-profile prisoners are using their 'expertise' to contribute towards bettering facilities in the Tihar jail and for its inmates.
Twenty beggars, housed in a government-run relief centre in Bengaluru, have died in the last two days due to various ailments, including gastroenteritis, officials said on Thursday. Six of the 15 inmates, who were admitted to the isolation hospital with severe gastroenteritis on Thursday, succumbed in the morning while three others developed complications at the centre itself and died on way to the hospital in the evening, sources told PTI.
Alert students and a cook saved their hostel inmates from consuming poisonous food by facilitating its disposal after they saw a suspended panchayat official allegedly mixing some harmful substance in it.
In the Nagpur Central Jail, a COVID-19 patient who has been complaining since the last 10 days of high fever, breathlessness, joint pain, cold and sore throat, is being treated in jail quarantine. The prisoner is Professor G N Saibaba, 90% handicapped, wheelchair-bound, with a damaged heart and pancreas; dependent on others even for his essential bodily functions.
The ministry of home affairs gave in detail the steps taken by the Delhi Police which is making all efforts to complete the investigation within the time frame to submit the charge sheet in the trial court.
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal is in a "habit of filing false complaints", the Tihar jail authority today told a Delhi court while responding to his plea in which he had alleged that he was being treated "worse than an animal" in the high security prison.
The apex court also said CBI officers probing the shelter home cases in Bihar shall not be transferred without its prior permission.
Terming the incident "deplorable", the decision to handover the case to the CBI was taken to prevent rumour-mongering in the state.
After a long hiatus of more than 20 months, the government had on November 26 announced the resumption of scheduled international commercial flights from December 15.
According to Muzaffarpur District Registration Officer Sanjay Kumar, the orders to freeze the bank accounts and ban the sale or purchase of any movable or immovable assets of the Seva Sankalp Evam Vikas Samiti were passed by District Magistrate Mohammad Sohail on August 7 and 8.
In the 66th year of the Indian Republic, eight people died of cold every night in the nation's capital.
The FIR against him was re-registered in January 2020, and Navlakha had surrendered before the NIA on April 14, last year. According to the prosecution, some activists allegedly made inflammatory speeches and provocative statements at the Elgar Parishad meet in Pune on December 31, 2017, which triggered violence at Koregaon Bhima in the district the next day.
The diamond merchant wanted in India on charges of fraud and money laundering in the estimated $2-billion Punjab National Bank scam case, lost his legal battle against extradition as a UK judge ruled that he does have a case to answer before the Indian courts.
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Trouble is brewing in Sabarmati jail in Gujarat, where over 70 per cent of the inmates have gone on a hunger strike, to protest the alleged atrocities by the jail authorities.A public interest litigation, filed by the Jan Sangharsh Manch at the Gujarat high court, has sought the removal of Jail Superintendent V Chandrashekhar.The PIL, filed on behalf of several prisoners, alleges that Chandrashekhar committed several atrocities.
Alert to the looming threat from the 'Omicron' variant, states began to re-tighten curbs and urgently trace people who arrived from abroad in the last one month while a demand to not allow flights from the affected countries was made by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.
On January 5 last year, a mob of masked men stormed the campus and targeted students in three hostels, unleashing mayhem with sticks, stones and iron rods, hitting inmates and breaking windows, furniture and personal belongings.
'He wrote a letter to his parents every night, and read the Gita every morning before going about his work.'
Ponzi king Bernard Madoff, who has been convicted of committing a fraud of $60 billion, is in danger of being beaten up by fellow inmates at a North Carolina federal prison, where he is currently imprisoned.
To mark International Day of Yoga, Maharashtra government has decided to initiate from June 21 physical, mental and spiritual training for prisoners across the state to help inmates come out of depression.
Most of the legal cases in the UK are switching to videolink and telephonic options where possible, with all new jury trials suspended amid the social distancing rules in place to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Father of the Nation said he had not hesitated to count many of the merits of Kasturba in his autobiography, but "she has got weaknesses too which mar these virtues."
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The court also observed that working for Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh does not make a person communal and anti-social.
The five-member panel will recommend measures to ensure safety of students and will probe lapses in security, if any. The students and civil society members, meanwhile, took out a protest march demanding resignation of the V-C.
Seven members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India have escaped from a prison in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district. While jail authorities managed to nab one SIMI member, the rest are still on the run.
'I worry that the suffering of these people might be as invisible as the people themselves,' observes Geetanjali Krishna.
The top court asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, whether protesting farmers are protected from COVID-19.
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