RTI activist and Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi on Tuesday claimed that the recent molestation of a girl in Guwahati, allegedly instigated by the reporter of a local news channel, may have been part of a greater conspiracy to tarnish the image of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and destabilise the state government.
Action under the stringent National Security Act, which allows for detention without trial for one year, was also initiated against the accused, he added.
Sandeshkhali, a village in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, has been at the centre of a political storm for nearly a month and has witnessed unprecedented protests over allegations of sexual abuse by scores of women against a local Trinamool Congress leader.
Several cases relating to car theft and other offences were slapped on Ruchika's brother Ashu Girhotra in 1993 but he was later acquitted of the charges by the courts. The family alleges that false cases were brought at Rathore's behest and that Ashu was harassed and tortured in custody.
A 26-year-old British national, who is a dancer and works in Bollywood movies, was allegedly molested by a salesman when she and her two female compatriots, boarded an auto rickshaw in Mumbai's suburban Oshiwara on Monday.
In yet another incident of violence against northeastern people in national capital New Delhi, a girl and her cousin brother hailing from Manipur were allegedly attacked by two men who thrashed them, hurled racial abuses and molested the girl.
The incident took place on the night of November 1. Following the incident, hundreds of BHU students had held a protest on the campus and demanded that the entry of outsiders be banned.
She alleged the incident occurred when she went to the medical officer on July 4 for a certificate.
The editor-in-chief of the local television news channel, which had videographed the molestation of a girl outside a pub in Guwahati, on Tuesday resigned after expressing doubts over impartial enquiry into the allegations that a journalist had instigated the incident.
It said there is anger among Mizo youths, who are deeply anguished over the "barbaric and atrocious act of Meiteis" against Zo or Kuki ethnic people in Manipur.
In a setback to the West Bengal government, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed its plea challenging a Calcutta high court order transferring to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) the probe into the January 5 attack on an Enforcement Directorate (ED) team in Sandeshkhali, allegedly by supporters of the now suspended TMC local strongman Shahjahan Sheikh.
Protests turned violent in Manipur as police burst tear gas shells to disperse agitated locals during the first day of the indefinite state-wide bandh called by a film body demanding the arrest of an NSCN-IM ultra who allegedly molested a Manipuri film actress at a public function
Meanwhile, ED officers faced resistance again during the arrest of TMC leader and former Bongaon Municipality chairman Shankar Adhya on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.
The special investigation team of Assam police set up to probe the July 9 molestation case in Guwahati will send raw footages of the incident recorded by a private channel for forensic test.
The Allahabad high court on Friday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to apprise it of the details of a case involving alleged molestation of a Dalit woman by a police sub-inspector inside premises of a police station in the state capital.
Mumbai Police on Tuesday recorded the statement of Bollywood actress Preity Zinta in connection with the molestation case she has registered against her former boyfriend and industrialist Ness Wadia.
There have been other several instances where women have stood up and taken on eve teasers and molesters. Rediff.com lists a few such cases where the victims have fiercely fought back.
The Centre on Tuesday sent a fresh reminder to former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika molestation case, asking it to respond to a show-cause notice on why his pension should not be reduced and his police medal not withdrawn for allegedly abusing power. The reminder was sent as Rathore has failed to respond to the notice sent to him on December 26, 2009 by the stipulated January 15 deadline, official sources said.
A section of Delhi University students and teachers along with student bodies including All India Students' Association and Students Federation of India, staged a protest outside the college campus.
The Delhi Commission for Women on Tuesday summoned St Stephen's principal Valson Thampu and college professor Satish Kumar after receiving a complaint from the research scholar, who has accused the latter of sexual harassment.
A 28-year-old man, who tried to prevent some inebriated youth allegedly from molesting a woman co-passenger, was seriously injured after he was thrown out of a moving train at Cheruthurthi near Thrissur, police said on Thursday.
Classmates said that most would not mingle with her if she returns as she "suppressed reality."
They were charged with dereliction of duty.
"My girl is just 16 years old and was alone in the police station when her statement was recorded. She was pressurised by police to give that statement," her mother claimed.
The girl and a man were taken into custody on June 21 in connection with a child marriage case.
Two women were allegedly molested by a group of men during New Year revelry outside a five-star hotel in Mumbai.
A senior Indian Administrative Service officer was on Monday arrested by the Government Railway Police in Lucknow on charges of molesting a girl in a train.
The girl, from Jiribam, had complained to her mother that army personnel of the 12th Grenadier Rifles had molested her during frisking.
The family of the teenage girl, who was killed after being molested and thrown off a moving bus belonging to the ruling Badal family in Punjab, has refused to cremate her till the administration fulfils their demands for compensation and cancellation of the transport firm's permit.
The HRD ministry on Friday asked St Stephen's college to expedite its probe into the sexual harassment complaint filed by a PhD student.
Close on the heels of the gang rape of a Swiss tourist in Madhya Pradesh, a 25-year-old British woman on Tuesday jumped off a hotel room in Agra to save herself from an alleged sexual assault bid and suffered a leg fracture.
St Stephen's professor Satish Kumar, facing allegation of molesting a PhD scholar, on Wednesday found himself in a tight spot as the HRD ministry and Delhi Commission for Women have sought action-taken report from the college about the incident.
Two persons including a coach were booked on the charge of sexual harassment following a complaint lodged by an 18-year old Wushu player in Rohtak, police said on Monday.
"There is no sexual harassment by the commander," NCW member Wansuk Syiem, who was a part of the probe committee, said. "It is just misbehaviour from both sides. I must say some arguments were there, which caused the commander to physically push her," she said
An FIR was lodged at Town Police Station of Jehanabad on Sunday under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the POCSO Act by Additional Sub Inspector S S Singh. The motorcycle, whose owner was absconding, was seized, he said.
Mika ruled out any compromise between him and Sawant, saying he would not apologise as 'he had not done anything wrong.'
A 32-year-old alleged serial molester, who assaulted at least 25 minors in Mumbai's western suburbs since April last year, was arrested on Wednesday from suburban Khar, police said.
The girl in her statement named seven persons, including an Assistant Commissioner of Police, constable, a hotelier, a photographer and a political worker.
Based on her complaint via email to Bengaluru police, the driver has been arrested and a case registered.
Justice S A Bobde, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, along with N V Ramana and Indira Banerjee will conduct an in-house inquiry into the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.
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