The Supreme Court has stayed the Bombay High Court’s Nagpur Bench order which said that a person groping a girl child’s breast without skin-to-skin contact cannot be held guilty of sexual assault under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act. The Bombay High Court’s verdict by Justice Pushpa Ganediwala has been challenged by Youth Bar Association of India.
After denying entry to a Dalit family, two upper-caste Hindus issued an apology after the police intervention. A complaint was registered earlier in Coimbatore’s Thudiyalur police station by R Kamatchi of NGGO Colony alleging caste discrimination.
The woman stated that she was not allowed to enter the temple in Balaji Nagar along with her son and his family on January 25. As per the complaint, she was refused entry by a man and woman because she was a Dalit. Kamatchi informed that her family had to offer prayer while standing outside the temple.
A lady expresses gratitude to farmers for feeding the country.
The Supreme Court has stated that the press (print and electronic media) has to follow the provisions of Section 228A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which prohibits the media from revealing the identity of victims of certain crimes.
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, India in a case of disappearance of a woman and subsequent recovery of her body in District Mahendergarh, Haryana has found that the police did not act professionally to pursue the FIR in the matter and interrogate the alleged accused. Accordingly, it has issued a notice to the Government of Haryana, through its Chief Secretary, to show cause why Rs. 3 lakh should not be recommended to be paid to the next of kin of the victim woman.