Amid a raging controversy over the alleged molestation at Stephen's College, the human resource development ministry on Saturday asked the University Grants Commission to take "appropriate measure" to ensure the institute's internal complaints committee completes the inquiry "expeditiously" and "impartially".
Dismissing molestation charges against his wards as a publicity stunt, Churchill Brothers coach Carlos Pereira on Wednesday insisted that his wards are innocent.
The Manipur government declared as 'wanted' the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-IM militant, who had allegedly molested a Manipuri film actress, as protests against it grew on the third day of the indefinite bandh and curfew was clamped in the entire valley area to defuse the situation on Monday.
Curfew was imposed on Saturday night in two districts in Manipur as violence escalated on the first day of an indefinite bandh called to protest alleged molestation of a film actress by a Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah militant.
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.
Her family members had gone to the youth's house to complain against him for uploading the girl's photos online, but they were abused by them, police said.
A senior IAS officer in the Uttar Pradesh government, who was arrested on charges of attempt to rape and molesting a Delhi-based woman in a train, was on Wednesday granted interim bail by a Lucknow court. Sessions Judge K K Sharma granted interim bail to IAS officer Shashi Bhushan Sushil up to October 10 on an application moved on his behalf, court sources said.
Right to Information activist Akhil Gogoi on Saturday alleged that a journalist -- who filmed the molestation of a girl in Guwahati on Monday night on his mobile -- had 'instigated' it, but the news channel he belonged to denied the accusation as 'baseless'.
A teenage girl was allegedly molested by a policeman leading to mob violence and police firing in Assam's Kamrup district on Friday.
An Air India employee was arrested and another detained early on Tuesday for allegedly molesting a nine-year-old girl at NSC Bose International airport in Kolkata.
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.
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.
Amar Jyoti Kalita, the prime accused in the molestation of a girl on the streets of Guwahati on July 9, was on Wednesday brought back to the city from Varanasi, where he was caught by a Special Investigation Team of the Assam police.
Father of Ruchika Girihotra, who was molested by former Haryana Director General of Police S P S Rathore in 1990 and later committed suicide, on Thursday accused former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala of providing wholehearted support to the convict during his tenure. "We have been moving here and there for the last 19 years. He (Rathore) has been following us and harassing us. He was the DGP. Whom do we complain to? Chief minister was backing him wholeheartedly," he said.
A team of the National Commission for Women arrived in Guwahati on Saturday to investigate the shocking molestation of a girl, who was groped and beaten up on the streets of the city by a mob of over 20 men earlier this week.
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Vishwas strongly rejected the allegations, saying she had come back targeting him with "another script".
Hilal Ahmed Bandey, one of the two accused identified, was arrested from Handwara by Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday night.
While the girls are seen pleading with them to let them go, the boys are seen laughing and a few of them shooting the incident.
The duo -- Sukhi and Manjeet Singh alias Jolly -- surrendered before Chief Judicial Magistrate Kanchan Mahi. Police had on Tuesday arrested a youth, Harpreet Singh alias Dalli, from Ambala who is suspected to have played a key role in the incident on Saturday night.
The Delhi high court on Friday stayed the arrest of St Stephen's college professor Satish Kumar, accused of molesting a PhD student, till August 17.
A woman home guard was allegedly molested in a DTC bus in east Delhi on Wednesday, police said.
Action under the stringent National Security Act, which allows for detention without trial for one year, was also initiated against the accused, he added.
"The violent mob vandalised all the houses and burnt them to the ground after looting all the moveable properties," the FIR lodged at Saikul police station claimed.
Post the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of cases of thefts swelled three-fold to 14,818 the previous year as compared to 4,534 such cases registered in 2021.
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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.
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.
Tamil actress Shriya Shreya was allegedly molested in Tirumala temple, Andhra Pradesh by a man identified as a cleaner.
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.
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.
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.
'Those who feared that I would have run one hell of a campaign targeting the most powerful people in India snatched away my democratic right from me.' 'I will expose these democracy-killers.'
Women TV journalists alleged that some policemen deputed at actor Amitabh Bachchan's residence on the occasion of his 65th birthday on Thursday molested them as they were waiting to interview the megastar.
A 25-year-old was shot dead by two youths on a motorbike on the Ring Road in the Capital on Sunday evening, allegedly when she resisted their attempt to molest her.
The Uber cab driver accused of raping a 27-year-old executive has been a serial sexual offender and was out on bail in a rape case in 2013 besides being involved in similar case in 2011, police said on Tuesday calling him a 'big time rogue'.
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