Citizens for Justice and Peace
Man gets 3-yr prison term for sexually harassing teen
29-Jan-2016
Jan 29 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Rebecca Samervel Mumbai: Testimony Of Victim’s SoBo Employer Nails Accused A special court on Thursday convicted and sentenced a 42-year-old man to three years’ imprisonment for sexually harassing a girl who worked as help in a Malabar Hill flat. Among the witnesses was the flat owner,…
RIGHT TO PRAY – Muslim activists demand entry for women at all religious places
29-Jan-2016
Jan 29 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Mumbai:Backing the activists who are opposing ban on women’s entry to the sanctum sanctorum of Shani Shingnapur temple in Ahmednagar, a group of Muslim women on Thursday demanded entry of women in all shrines and places of worship, including the iconic Haji Ali Dargah. Led by…
28-yr-old nurse kidnapped, gangraped by three in Jaipur
29-Jan-2016
Jan 29 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Jaipur TIMES NEWS NETWORK Three unidentified middle-aged men abducted a 28year-old nurse and gangraped her just 500m from the Rajasthan legislative assembly building in Jaipur. She mustered courage a day later on Wednesday and lodged an FIR against the three. Police said the woman was medically…
6 convicted for Bengal gangrape and murder
29-Jan-2016
Jan 29 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Kolkata: AGENCIES Six persons were on Thursday convicted by a local court in the Kamduni gangrape and murder case in which a 21year-old college girl was brutally assaulted and murdered in June 2013, triggering outrage. Two other accused were acquitted. Additional city and sessions judge Sanchita…
Girl gangraped by three youths, one arrested in Uttar Pradesh
29-Jan-2016
Jan 29, 2016 | • PTI | • Muzaffarnagar The victim in her complaint said that the incident took place when she went out of her house to attend nature’s call. A 22-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and gangraped by three youths who also made a video of the act at Miranpur town in the…
Malwani minor booked for harrassing girl
29-Jan-2016
Jan 29, 2016 | • Age Correspondent | • mumbai Humiliated, the girl had attempted to commit suicide The police has registered a case against a 16-year-old boy in Malwani area for harassing and passing lewd comments to a minor girl from the locality. The girl, also 16-year-old, had allegedly tried to commit suicide by…
Six convicted, two acquitted in Kamduni rape-murder case
29-Jan-2016
Friday, 29 January 2016 | Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata The City Sessions Court on Thursday convicted six persons in the Kamduni gang-rape case in which a poor yet meritorious college student was accosted and dragged inside an abandoned industrial area while she was returning from college raped and murdered with sickening brutality in June 2013.…
Bihar Congress MLA booked for abducting girl
29-Jan-2016
Masaurhi police said the case against the Bikram MLA was lodged on the basis of a local resident’s complaint. By: Express News Service | Patna | Published:January 29, 2016 12:35 am A Congress MLA from Bikram and the son of an RJD MLA have been booked in two separate criminal cases in Bihar. While the…
Now, women seek entry into Haji Ali dargah
28-Jan-2016
Several activists belonging to Muslim women groups held placards demanding entry for females into the sanctum sanctorum of the historic dargah, which receives hundreds of devotees everyday. By: PTI | Mumbai | Updated: January 28, 2016 10:17 pm Muslim women on Thursday staged a protest demanding entry into a restricted area of the Haji Ali…
6 found guilty in Bengal gang-rape case, 2 acquitted
28-Jan-2016
Kolkata, Jan 28, 2016, DHNS: Mamata had accused victim’s family of having Maoist links Nearly three years after a 21-year-old college girl was gang-raped and murdered at Kamduni in North 24 Parganas, a Sessions Court in Kolkata on Thursday pronounced six accused in the case guilty, setting the argument for quantum of punishment on Friday.…