Panaji: A Pocso court has acquitted a 38-year-old man of assaulting and attempting to rape his 16-year-old daughter after she did not support the prosecution’s case.The girl, living with her father, stepmother, and siblings, had sent her headmistress a Whatsapp message that she was being beaten badly by her father, and sent her photos, following…
Jaipur: Allegations that men in civilian clothes joined baton charges during protests at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar have revived scrutiny of how far police personnel without uniforms can go in restraining or detaining protesters.The debate also intensified in Jaipur after an older Instagram video dating back to June this year resurfaced, purportedly showing a man in…
Ghaziabad: Though she was merely seven years old, the survivor was articulate enough in explaining her ordeal.Over three years after she was sexually assaulted, the minor’s statements to the police, the magistrate and sessions court — having remained consistent all through — resulted in the conviction of her tormentor. A special POCSO court awarded the…
She said she came to Noida for a job interview at a real estate company for the position of a personal assistant on July 6 Noida: A 25-year-old woman has accused the manager of a private company in Sector 49 of sexually harassing her at the workplace and throwing her out of a moving car.A…
Bengaluru: A routine cab ride home allegedly turned into a frightening ordeal for a 30-year-old woman after the driver reportedly mistook her kombucha, a fermented beverage, for beer and got into an argument with her, leading to a dramatic escape from the moving vehicle.According to a complaint filed by Sangeetha (name changed), a resident of…
Varanasi: Named FIR was registered against nine persons, including former MLA and district president of Samajwadi Party Manoj Singh Dablu, along with 250 unidentified workers, in Chandauli district, on charges of pushing policemen in a bid to enter the collectorate campus, recently.The SP organised a protest near Vikas Bhawan on Friday in support of their…
Hyderabad: A criminal case has been registered against an international passenger for allegedly misbehaving with a cabin crew member aboard a Lufthansa flight on Friday.The incident occurred on board the LH752 Frankfurt-Hyderabad flight which took off from Frankfurt at 1.32 pm (Central European time; 5.02 pm in Indian time) and landed in Hyderabad at 1.15…
