About 3,500 jurists, academics, actors, artistes, writers and people from other walks of life called the registration of the FIR against The Wire's founding editor an attack on press freedom.
More than 80 women have accused the movie mogul, once the most powerful man in the American film industry of sexual misconduct, including rape, with some allegations dating back to decades.
Six army troopers were injured in an accidental blast inside a heavily guarded camp of the Rashtriya Rifles in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Thursday morning. A senior police officer said a powerful grenade went off accidentally while a clean-up operation was going on in the camp.
A 20-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by two sacked jawans of the Rajasthan Police Constabulary in Kota.
Protesters had vandalised a police station and torched vehicles in Mau. Internet services have been suspended in the district.
In an another instance of police high-handedness, a man was allegedly forced to strip before his children in a police station in Sri Ganganagar and his minor daughter was put in a lock-up after he was detained in a land dispute case, prompting police to order a probe.
Mahila Thana station house officer Arti Kumari Jaiswal arrived at the spot and told reporters, "The girl seems to be in a state of shock and hence we are taking her along to the police station and wait for the time till she is able to record her statement coherently. An FIR will be lodged based on her testimony and investigations and further action will follow."
A court in Delhi on Tuesday asked the Delhi police to investigate the defamation complaint filed against Congress Member of Parliament Naveen Jindal and 16 others by Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary, who had alleged that false allegations were levelled against him to tarnish his image.
The 23-year-old has not surfaced after he and his friend were arrested by a police patrol team and let off on bail on Saturday.
Less than a fortnight after the alleged suicide by a woman Squadron Leader of the Indian Air Force in Jodhpur, another IAF officer was found hanging in his room on Sunday.
A written complaint was on Wednesday filed against Bollywood singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya for his controversial comments regarding the court's verdict which held Salman Khan guilty in the 2002 hit-and-run case.
The body of Umar Khan, hailing from Ghatmika village in Bharatpur district, was recovered near Ramgarh on Saturday.
A Station House Officer was killed by militants in Chadoora town in Kashmir's Budgam district on Monday afternoon.
The students of the Sri Pratap College were protesting against the alleged "high handedness" of security forces.
Bishada youth Jay Prakash, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Tuesday leading to allegations of police harassment, may have consumed poison following a fight with his wife.
Police has asked Team Anna to provide the schedule and nature of the programme on day-to-day basis besides expected gathering on the function at Ramlila Ground from December 27, 2011 to January 5, 2012.
Nitin Sharma, deputy general manager of the company, was sprayed with a hail of bullets by two youths in their 20s riding a motorcycle in front of his house at Shaktikhand-4 at around 8 am, city SP Shivshankar Yadav said
The police in Noida has prohibited any religious activity, including offering of Friday prayers by Muslims, in a public park.
Pehlu Khan, the man who died after gau rakshaks beat him and four others for allegedly smuggling cows, was a dairy farmer and had the receipts of the cow purchase.
It is also suspected that Ravi was suffering from dengue, though hospital authorities said, 'medical report is still awaited'.
A suicide bomber targeted a police van in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing two policemen, including an officer, and injuring several others. The attacker struck the vehicle of Station House Officer Syed Ajmer Shah at Nowshera in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Shah and his driver were killed in the attack, police officials told the media. Shah had received threats from the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, the officials said.
Initial probe suggests that it is a case of money dispute between the two.
Aazad may visit Delhi for medical reasons and election purposes. The court had earlier restrained him from visiting Delhi for four weeks and directed him to not hold any 'dharna' till the elections in the national capital.
The Delhi police was directed on Monday by a local court to file a report on a complaint of a key prosecution witness in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam case that Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Amar Singh and others had threatened and kidnapped him ahead of his deposition before a Parliamentary committee.
Three days after dacoits gang raped two women in Veergaon village of Akole district in Maharashtra, Home Minister R R Patil, who visited the place on Tuesday, announced the suspension of two policemen for dereliction of duty.
The district police on Wednesday filed a charge sheet in the Chief Medical Officer B P Singh murder case, holding Deputy CMO YS Sachan responsible for hiring shooters to kill him. The charge sheet was filed by Gomti Nagar police station Station House Officer Abhimanyu Dhar Dwivedi in Chief Judicial Magistrate Rajesh Upadhyay's court.
A 22-year-old woman was allegedly kidnapped and raped by four men in a moving car in Ghaziabad, the police said on Wednesday.
A MiG-21 'Bison' fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Tuesday crashed near Shambu in Punjab's Patiala district even as the pilot bailed out safely.
"Twenty one persons have died so far in the liquor tragedy," District Magistrate Ajay Yadav said. The incident happened late on Friday, when several people from Luhari Darwaja and adjacent Laukhera village consumed spurious liquor and were taken ill.
'In normal procedure, policemen wear helmets to protect ourselves from lathi, sticks, poles, bamboos of a rampaging mob - but how do we protect ourselves from bullets?'
Maliwal dismissed the charge, saying she had not released the victim's name and that she was not scared of the FIR.
The city police on Tuesday told a Delhi court that it was still probing the sedition case against hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy and four others for making alleged anti-India speeches last year.
Security forces seize solar missiles in Valley. A squad of Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmir Police spotted these solar missiles, positioned for an offensive action in Gujjarpati forest area of Kupwara district.
The Karni Sena had alleged distortion of historical facts in the period drama starring Padukone, Shahid Kapur and Ranveer Singh.
'The censer board members should take a decision after taking into account people's views. They should be apprised about it'
A station house officer and his bodyguard were shot at and injured by terrorists in the Batmaloo area of Srinagar on Tuesday evening.
A Delhi court took serious note of the sensational claim by two undertrials that they were provided with a pistol and a knife allegedly by Tihar jail officials to kill two Commonwealth Games officials lodged in the high security prison on corruption charges.
Violence and arson once again returned to Karachi with 11 persons being killed and 16 others injured following the murder of Awami National Party office bearer Ubaidullah Yousufzai.
In the wake of protests over the rape and murder of a woman constable in Rajasthan's Kota district, authorities have suspended two policemen, including a station house officer, besides transferring the rest of the staff of Chechat police station. Constable Maya Yadav was raped inside her quarter behind the police station allegedly by police driver Deshraj and later stabbed to death on Wednesday night with the help of Tulsi Ram, who was working as a cook in the police station.
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