The Centre on Tuesday promised to take action on the report of a fact-finding team which claimed that there were 15,000 incidents of post-poll violence in West Bengal in which 25 people were killed and 7,000 women were molested.
While posting the matter for hearing on April 18, a bench of Justices K M Joseph and B V Nagarathna said there is a gamut of issues involved and it needs to hear the matter in detail.
High Court on Thursday directed the state government to submit a report on the action taken against the bus staff in Moga molestation case.
The accused named in the FIR included son of a Bollywood producer, a talent manager and a producer, he said.
Another controversy rocked the IPL. An Australian player with the Royal Challengers Bangalore was arrested, on Friday, on charges of molesting an Indian American woman and severely attacking her fiancee leaving him in hospital.
The airline also decided to set up a committee to probe the molestation complaint lodged by airhostess Komal Singh against Arora and co-pilot Aditya Chopra, an Air India spokesperson said.
In the second such incident within a week, a female student of Jawaharlal Nehru University was attacked and molested inside the campus allegedly by a former student.
The video, which drew widespread condemnation, shows the men constantly molesting the two helpless women, who cry and plead with their captors to spare them the horror.
The movie legend accused the media of vilifying the pop star.
The JD-S supremo reiterated that his grandson should be given the harshest punishment under the law "if found guilty".
Lal was serving as the 3 Infantry Division General Officer Commanding in Leh last year when the woman officer Capt Neha Rawat made a written complaint against the two-star General alleging sexual misconduct under the pretext of conducting meditation classes at his residence.
United States-based cab service provider Uber has landed in another controversy with one of its drivers being accused of molesting a female passenger during a ride to Gurgaon.
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Consul General of Bahrain Mohammed Abdulaziz Al Khaja, who was facing charges of molesting and threatening the manager of a housing society in Mumbai, has left the country, police said on Saturday.
A seven-member special investigation team has been constituted by the Haryana police to investigate two fresh FIRs registered against former director general of police SPS Rathore in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. The two complaints were lodged by Ruchika's father Subhash Chander Girhotra and brother Aashu, seeking filing of cases against Rathore and other police officials, for slapping false cases against the boy and for 'doctoring' Ruchika's post-mortem report.
The CCTV footage of the video shows the accosted woman getting off an auto rickshaw and walking towards her home, when one of the two men suddenly appears in her way and begins to molest her.
Kumaraswamy alleged that 25,000 pen drives were distributed in the entire state, and cited a report in a regional daily to support his claim.
Ruchika Girhotra's father S C Girhotra said on Thursday that their fight for justice will continue even after Sessions court verdict on former Haryana police chief SPS Rathore on enhancing his sentence in the molesation case of the budding tennis player.
The charges were framed after Pachauri, who was present in the courtroom, pleaded not guilty and claimed trial.
Tell him that even broken hearts can be mended but he cannot break a woman's dignity at any cost. Tell him that raping is a sin for which man will have to pay a heavy price. A very heavy price.
The judge also observed that as per the complaint, advances were made towards the complainant.
Congress leader Alka Lamba was on Monday removed from a fact-finding team of National Women's Commission, which looked into the case of molestation of a 17-year-old girl in Guwahati, for making public the victim's identity.
Vishwas strongly rejected the allegations, saying she had come back targeting him with "another script".
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.
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A Bahrainian envoy has been booked in Mumbai for allegedly molesting the woman manager of his housing society but not arrested due to the diplomatic immunity he enjoys, police said on Wednesday.
A 24-year-old paraplegic girl has been arrested in Jaipur e on charges of conspiracy in connection with abduction and rape of her friend and denied bail by a local court.
On July 29, he called her for a birthday party, tried to disrobe her and even offered to get her the gifts she wanted, she alleged.
Former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, wants an attempt to murder case registered against Utsav Sharma, the "physically imbalanced" youth who was charged with inflicting knife injuries on the former top cop outside the district court here a month back.
The Delhi high court on Friday quashed an FIR against Australian cricketer Luke Pomersbach after he and the complainant, a US national, reached an out-of-court settlement in a molestation case.
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday extended the two anticipatory bail applications and a petition demanding cancellation of abetment to suicide charges against former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore, in connection with the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, till January 25.The high court had earlier on January 12 rejected the interim bail plea of Rathore, and asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to file its reply in the case by January 18.
The statement issued by Raj Bhavan late Saturday night highlighted that the governor, upon receiving a complaint in the Peace Room, instructed the police chief to arrest the culprit promptly.
Former Haryana director general of police SPS Rathore, who has been keeping a low profile following an uproar after he got away lightly in the Ruchika case, on Wednesday stepped out of his residence to meet his lawyer in the wake of fresh FIRs being filed against him.
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After stepping out of the cab near South East Delhi's C R Park area, she informed the police about the incident at around 10 pm, the police said.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court adjourned till September 29 the hearing on two fresh FIRs filed against former Director General of Police SPS Rathore in Ruchika molestation case charging him with serious offences like attempt to murder after the Central Bureau of Investigation again sought more time to file its reply.
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday adjourned till July 19 the hearing on two FIRs filed against former Director General Police SPS Rathore in the Ruchika molestation case after the Central Bureau of Investigation sought more time to conduct the probe.
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.
Taking serious note of the spate of rape and molestation cases, the Bombay high court on Friday said the Maharashtra government should not wait for Parliament to amend laws and asked it to bring about changes in its own statute to tackle the menace.
A local court in Chandigarh on Wednesday adjourned till March 10 the hearing on the appeal of SPS Rathore against the six-month sentence in the Ruchika molestation case, taking into cognizance that the former Haryana director general of police was still recovering from the assault on him two days back.
Disappointed at the grant of interim bail to SPS Rathore in the two first investigation reports registered against him this week in the Ruchika molestation case, her friend Aradhana on Friday wished that there would be speedy trial in the two cases and the former DGP would soon be behind bars.
