BJP leader arrested for flogging Dalit in UP
A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has been arrested, along with two others, for flogging a Dalit in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday.
Minors kill youth for telling them to take precautions while firing crackers
Three minors killed a young man in Mumbai because he told them to take precaution while firing crackers.
BJP Karnataka Minister gifts cash, gold, silver to local body members
Controversies continue to plague Karnataka Ministers belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
BJP Minister in Karnataka denies slapping woman, confirms touching her cheek!
The opposition in Karnataka has demanded the expulsion of State Housing Minister V Somanna from the Bharatiya Janata Party Cabinet led by Basavaraj Bommai, for allegedly slapping a woman at a public event recently.
Youth gets 18 months in jail for calling a girl ‘item’
A young Mumbai resident has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for repeatedly calling minor girl ‘item’.
Jilted lover, lands in jail for blackmailing girl
A girl, being blackmailed by her former boyfriend, got him arrested by reporting to the police that he was blackmailing her.
Patient given fruit juice, instead of platelets; dies
Software engineer gangraped in Wes Singhbhum
A software engineer was gang-raped by a group of eight to ten men, in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand.
Take suo motu action on hate speech: SC to state police chiefs
The Supreme Court has taken a serious view of the proliferation of hate speech in the country.
Gujarat HC notice to police on flogging of Muslim youth
The Gujarat High Court has issued notices to policemen and the state government for the public flogging of Muslim youth in Kheda district for allegedly pelting stones at a Navratri venue.
It was brought to the notice of the court that plainclothes police had flogged half a dozen Muslim men in village Undhela on October 4, to the cheering by people around them.