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BSP leader's son who waved pistol arrested, defends himself
A former BSP MP's son who threatened a man with a pistol at a luxury hotel four days ago surrendered in a court here on Thursday and was arrested. He claimed he was innocent of any wrongdoing.
#MeToo movement: Uncertainty over separate legal committee to look into sexual harassment cases
With a high-level Group of Ministers being set up to look into lacunae in existing laws against sexual harassment, a separate legal committee to look into allegations that have surfaced in the #MeToo campaign might not see light of the day, sources said Friday. Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi had last week proposed a panel of legal experts to look into such allegations. The committee was to look into the legal and institutional framework for handling complaints of sexual harassment and advise the ministry on how to strengthen the rules. However, the government has decided to form a Group of Ministers to look into the lacunae in existing laws against sexual harassment, official sources had said on Wednesday. Earlier, there were indications that the GoM could be headed by a senior women cabinet minister, but it was decided that Home Minister Rajnath Singh would head the panel. The move comes in the backdrop of a raging #MeToo movement, which started with actor ...
Malaysia's ex-Deputy PM arrested by anti-corruption body
Malaysia's former Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was arrested by the country's anti-corruption body on Thursday on charges of misuse of power, breach of trust and money laundering.
Passenger held for molesting female flight attendant
A 28-year-old passenger has been arrested for allegedly molesting a female flight attendant on board a Bengaluru-bound IndiGo plane before its departure from the Mumbai airport, a police official said Thursday. Raju Gangappa, a resident of Bengaluru, allegedly pressed the back of the 20-year-old flight attendant while he was passing by her and when she reprimanded him, he abused her, the official said giving details of incident which occurred on Tuesday. She informed her seniors about the incident following which the person was offloaded along with his baggage, he said. The official said he was handed over to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officials and later taken into custody by the airport police. Gangappa has been booked under IPC section 354 (assault or criminal force on woman with an intent to outrage her modesty), he said. Following his arrest, he was produced in a Mumbai court on Wednesday, which remanded him in police custody for a day, the official said. He ...
Govt vet doctor held for luring girl into conversion, father says 'he offered her Rs 500'
A government veterinary doctor has been arrested in Jharkhand's Pakur district on charges of luring a minor girl "with Rs 500" into converting to Christianity. Acting on a complaint lodged by the girl's father, the police conducted raids at Sawanlapur village on Tuesday and rescued the 13-year-old girl after arresting the doctor, Dalu Soren, said Pakur Superintendent of Police Shailendra Prasad Burnwal on Wednesday. He said a religious meeting was going on during that time. The veterinary doctor-cum-flying animal husbandry officer is currently posted at Chatarpur in Palamu district. The case was registered against the senior veterinary doctor under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Jharkhand Anti-Conversion Act, 2017, on the basis of the statement of the girl's father on Monday, the SP said. Burnwal said the accused has previous record of converting children and villagers to Christianity. In the FIR lodged at the Littipara Police Station, the girl's father, a ...
Man attacks estranged wife, kin near police station, held
: A 35-year-old man allegedly attacked and injured his estranged wife and four of her kin near a police station here Thursday when they went to lodge a complaint on their matrimonial dispute. The assailant, a painter by profession, and his wife have been separated for some months now. This morning, he went to her workplace and allegedly harassed her for money, police said. Following this, the woman, her mother and sisters decided to approach the police. The man attacked them with a knife in the vicinity of the police station. A sentry at the station informed his colleagues, who rushed to the spot and arrested the man. The injured women were treated at a hospital and were stated to be out of danger, police said.
Malaysia opposition leader arrested for corruption
Malaysia's opposition leader was arrested Thursday on suspicion of corruption, a fresh blow to his party which was ousted at elections this year after six decades in power. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, a former deputy premier and ally of scandal-mired ex-leader Najib Razak, was detained after being questioned by anti-corruption authorities. He will be charged Friday. He is head of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the lynchpin in a coalition of parties that ruled Malaysia from independence in 1957 until their shock defeat in May polls. The UMNO has been on the ropes since, with many coalition partners abandoning a party that had become synonymous with widespread graft, divisive racial politics and a rotten ruling elite. Najib has also been arrested and charged over allegations he oversaw the plundering of state fund 1MDB, a scandal that played a major part in the election defeat. Ahmad Zahid was arrested in "relation to an investigation into abuse of power, criminal breach of ...
Grandma kills 4-year-old girl
A woman killed her four-year-old granddaughter in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh town because she was irked with the girl's stubborn and demanding nature, police said on Thursday.
Editors Guild hopes Akbar will withdraw criminal defamation case
The Editors Guild of India on Thursday hoped that former Union Minister M.J. Akbar will withdraw his criminal defamation case against Priya Ramani, the first female journalist to accuse him of sexual harassment.
Delhi court to hear Akbar's defamation suit on Oct 31
A court here on Thursday admitted a criminal defamation suit filed by former Minister M.J. Akbar against journalist Priya Ramani, the first in a long list of female journalists to have accused him of sexual harassment.
TTE accused of molesting passenger on Kerala Express
A 22-year-old woman was allegedly molested by a travelling ticket examiner (TTE) in a sleeper coach of the Trivandrum-bound Kerala Express, police said Thursday. The incident happened Wednesday when the woman was going to Agra from New Delhi, they said. Government Railway Police Inspector Shiv Kumar Ponia said the victim registered an FIR accusing TTE Arun Kumar Rai of forcibly hugging her, Ponia added. Asked about the incident, Divisional Commercial Manager (Jhansi) Neeraj Bhatnagar said, "A departmental probe has been initiated to look into the allegation.
Koregaon-Bhima case: Activist Navlakha moves Bombay HC, seeks to quash FIR against him
Civil liberties activist Gautam Navlakha, arrested in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima case and his alleged links with Maoists, has moved the Bombay High Court seeking to quash the case lodged against him by Pune Police. In his petition filed earlier this month, Navlakha urged the high court to quash the First Information Report (FIR) lodged against him, claiming there was no evidence against him and that he was being falsely implicated. His petition will be heard Friday by the high court's division bench of Justices Ranjit More and Bharti Dangre. Navlakha, prominent Telugu poet Varavara Rao, activists Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves and trade union activist Sudha Bharadwaj were arrested in August this year by the Pune police. However, the Supreme Court had later ordered for the activists to be kept in house arrest. The apex court had last month refused to interfere in the case and said the Pune Police could go ahead with its probe. Earlier this month, the Delhi High Court had
Sabarimala stir: 6 BJP youth activists held at Nilackal for violating sec 144
Six BJP youth wing activists were arrested at Nilackal Thursday for staging a protest in violation of section 144 of the CrPC, which has been clamped in the area in view of violent demonstrations against allowing women in the menstruating age group inside the Sabarimala temple. Police removed the slogan-shouting Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha members who launched a sit-in protest at Nilackal, the gateway to Sabarimala, soon after the BJP state President P S Sreedharan Pillai announced in Thiruvananthapuram BJYM activists would violate section 144 in areas including Nilackal. While being forcibly bundled into a police vehicle, state BJYM president Prakash Babu said not a single woman in the age group of 10 and 50 would be allowed to climb the hills which houses the temple. Police said strong action would be taken against those disrupting the law and order. Police had on Wednesday also promulgated section 144 of CrPc in four places including Pamba, Sannidhanam to check any kind of protest
Malaysia's former deputy PM detained for alleged graft
Malaysia's anti-graft agency says it has detained former Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi in a case linked to misappropriation of funds in his family-run welfare group. Zahid, who now heads the opposition Malay party, is the latest notable person after former Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife to face graft charges following the shocking ouster of their coalition in May elections. The anti-graft agency said Zahid was detained after being summoned to its office on Thursday as part of its probe into abuse of power, criminal breach of trust and money laundering by his welfare group. It said in a statement that Zahid will be taken to court on Friday to face several charges under anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws.
Raj: Man arrested for abducting, raping minor girl in Kota
A 19-year-old man was arrested for allegedly abducting and raping a minor girl here, police said Thursday. Kalu Harijan had on October 13 abducted the girl from her village and brought her to Kota, where he raped her, said SHO Vijay Shankar Sharma. He was arrested from the Sindhi Camp area in Jaipur on Wednesday after the girl's family filed a missing compliant at Udyog Nagar police station, Sharma said. Harijan was booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for abducting and raping the girl, the SHO said. He was produced before a POCSO court here on Wednesday, which sent him to one-day police remand, Sharma said, adding that he will be produced before the court again after the remand period is over.
Man gives 'triple talaq' to wife via WhatsApp, booked
A 26-year-old Muslim man in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra allegedly gave triple talaq to his wife through WhatsApp, and was booked following a complaint lodged by her, police said Thursday. The man, Javed Saber Pathan, a resident of Khandala village in Vaijapur taluka in the district, was booked on Wednesday under section 4 of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Ordinance, 2018, a police officer said. "Javed had married Shabana Nisar Shaikh alias Sabha in December 2016. Things were fine between them for about a year. However, after that they regularly started arguing over small issues," police inspector Anant Kulkarni said. "On September 9 (2018), Javed dropped Shabana at her maternal aunt's house in Kannad tehsil (in the district), but did not return to take her back. Shabana's parents visited his house to request him to patch up with her. But on September 23, Javed sent a triple talaq message on her WhatsApp," he added. Shabana lodged a complaint ..
Ex-BSP MP's son surrenders, arrested for waving pistol at hotel
The son of a former BSP MP who had threatened a man with a pistol at a luxury hotel here was arrested on Thursday soon after he surrendered in a city court.
Court commences hearing on Akbar's defamation complaint
A Delhi court Thursday commenced hearing on M J Akbar's criminal defamation complaint against journalist Priya Ramani, who has accused him of sexual misconduct around 20 years ago. Senior advocate Geeta Luthra, representing former minister of state for external affairs, started referring to alleged controversial tweets of Ramani before additional chief metropolitan magistrate Samar Vishal. Akbar tendered his resignation on Wednesday.
Vikas Bahl files defamation suit against Anurag, Vikramaditya
Director Vikas Bahl, who was caught at the center of controversy following allegations of sexual harassment against him, has filed a defamation case against Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane and others on Thursday.Bahl filed the suit in the Bombay High Court, and has also sought compensation of Rs 10 crores from the respondents.In his application submitted to the court, Bahl has alleged that Kashyap and Motwane, among others, took advantage of the ongoing #MeToo movement in the country and have published "false, malicious, unsubstantiated imputations, allegations and statements" against him through their social media platforms."They did so with an intent to settle personal scores, exact vendetta and due to professional jealousy with an intent to defame him and destroy his career," the 'Queen' filmmaker told the court.In his application, Bahl pleaded the court to direct Kashyap and Motwane to delete the "defamatory" posts.The director has also named a few media publications and ...
Ashish Pandey sent to 1-day police remand
A Delhi court on Thursday sent Ashish Pandey, son of former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Member of Parliament (MP) Rakesh Pandey to one-day police remand, in connection with the hotel brawl case.Ashish was formally arrested by the Delhi police following his surrender before Patiala House Court earlier today. The police was seeking a four-day custodial remand for him.While arguing in the court, the public prosecutor asserted that a 4-day remand was needed by the police as Ashish was to be taken to Lucknow for recovering his pistol.Arguing in opposition to the remand application, Ashish's legal counsel said that while his client is ready to cooperate and deposit the pistol, the hype created by the media owing to his father's political stature has become a cause of concern for him."This matter is politically motivated," Ashish's lawyer stated in the court.Ashish had earlier claimed that he did not brandish his gun in premises of Hyatt Hotel and carried it for safety purposes."I took the gun