Gandhi made the demand during her brief conversation with the prime minister in the Lok Sabha on the first day of the Monsoon session Just before the House met for the day, Modi took a round to greet various leaders.
They were charged with dereliction of duty.
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday sought details from the Haryana government about how disgraced former top police official S P S Rathore was promoted to the rank of director general of police when a complaint of molestation was pending against him.The direction came while hearing a PIL filed by a local advocate seeking a fresh case against Rathore for abetment to teenager Ruchika Girhotra's suicide.
Initial investigation revealed that the woman was in a relationship with another man, Dhariyawad SHO Peshawar Khan said, adding that the incident took place on Thursday.
Sharat Pradhan in Lucknow
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.
Thousands of men mobbed the revellers, and groped and trash talked the women in the streets on Saturday night even as a large number of policemen were deployed in the area.
A United States jury on Wednesday sentenced an elderly Hindu religious leader to 14 years in prison and fined a $ 10,000 on each of 20 counts of molesting two girls who grew up on the ashram he founded and led in Central Texas.
Sachdev's wife Divya said that before deboarding, her husband had "apologised" to the teenager to which she said it was "okay".
Two women were allegedly molested by a group of men during New Year revelry outside a five-star hotel in Mumbai.
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.
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.
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.
Classmates said that most would not mingle with her if she returns as she "suppressed reality."
The girl, from Jiribam, had complained to her mother that army personnel of the 12th Grenadier Rifles had molested her during frisking.
Manipur Police have so far arrested five persons in connection with the May 4 parading of two tribal women in Kangpokpi district of the state, officials said on Saturday.
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.
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.
"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
A teenage girl died while her mother sustained serious injuries after they were allegedly molested and thrown off a moving bus near Moga in Punjab.
'Any flight I take, the crew write personal notes to me, saying how good I was as Soudamini or Seema or Bulbul.'
A woman, who was injured when security forces opened fire in Handwara town of north Kashmir to quell a stone-pelting mob, succumbed at a hospital in Srinagar on Wednesday.
Mika ruled out any compromise between him and Sawant, saying he would not apologise as 'he had not done anything wrong.'
A women's rally outside the Imphal residence of Union minister R K Ranjan Singh turned ugly when the protestors threw stones at it demanding that he speak in Parliament about the situation in the ethnic strife-affected state.
'Being alert is the most important weapon in one's armoury when one is on her own or is venturing out in unknown territory.'
The HRD ministry on Friday asked St Stephen's college to expedite its probe into the sexual harassment complaint filed by a PhD student.
Thematically riveting, but inept execution lets Kafas down, complains Mayur Sanap.
They said keeping in mind the situation arising out of ethnic clashes that broke out in the state on May 4, a team of women officials and personnel from Manipur police was formed to probe the case.
She also demanded that Chief Minister N Biren Singh admit his failure and apologise to the people of Manipur.
The issue of the teen molested and thrown off a bus in Punjab and the demand for a HC in Telangana created a storm in Parliament
TMC MP Mahua Moitra also attributed the former sportswoman's stand to her Rajya Sabha seat.
In a joint presser with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, Blinken vowed his support to Tel Aviv and also lauded the bravery of Israeli citizens amid the ongoing conflict that has claimed the lives of over 1,300 Israelis.
Efforts are underway to nab the alleged mastermind Pulsar Suni and another accused V P Vigeesh.
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.
A 23-year-old woman was attacked in the ladies compartment of a local train on Saturday morning by a man who tried to strangulate her when she resisted a rape attempt.
Joint Commissioner of Police (law and order) K L Prasad said the police have registered a case and the investigation has begun.
Facing fresh charges in the Ruchika molestation case, former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore on Wednesday mocked at the media, saying, "The day you can satisfy me you are a constitutional power on judicial matters, I will speak (to you)".During the proceedings before District and Sessions Judge S P Singh on Rathore's bail plea, Abha alleged, "It is a case of media hype". She added that she had come to know about the fresh FIRs through media reports.
Amid a growing tussle between the two sides, Kejriwal claimed the LG had called a series of meetings with government officials despite having no powers to do so.
Almost 1200-1500 students have been questioned till now in connection with the incident, police said.
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