Citizens for Justice and Peace
Gujarat HC allows another rape victim to abort foetus
25-Feb-2016
On Wednesday, the report was placed before the court which stated that the victim’s pregnancy can be terminated under MTP Act which “may not pose any injury to the mother or the foetus.” Written by Satish Jha | Ahmedabad | Updated: February 25, 2016 11:58 am Pleading for abortion she has cited the section-3 of…
Dalit women paraded nude in Orissa
25-Feb-2016
Feb 25, 2016 | Age Correspondent| Bhubaneswar Arujnagoda village under Pipili block in Orissa’s Puri district, which was in news in 2012 for the alleged gangrape and murder of a dalit girl, has once again hit the headlines for wrong reasons. Two women belonging to the Scheduled Caste community were recently paraded naked and made…
Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya sent to 3-day remand
25-Feb-2016
The court hearing began at 7.15 pm and the proceedings continued for over an hour. The magistrate and the lawyers were escorted to the police station, where elaborate security arrangements had been made. Written by Alok Singh , Abhishek Angad New Delhi Updated: Feb 25, 2016, 10:17 A designated court, set up at R K…
28 dead, 200 injured during Jat agitation: Haryana DGP
25-Feb-2016
The government has decided that applicants can claim up to 25 per cent of their loss, judged on the basis of self-assessment, as interim relief. By: Express News Service | Chandigarh | Published:February 25, 2016 10:27 am The government has decided that applicants can claim up to 25 per cent of their loss, judged on…
I challenge you to tell my caste: Smriti
25-Feb-2016
HRD minister gets emotional in Lok Sabha debate with fiery speech | Oppn demand for discussion on Rohith and JNU issues stirs House Govt says that it has not branded JNU as an anti-national institution and urges all parties to keep aside differences dna correspondent @dna New Delhi: After a face-off with the BSP supremo…
Group demands ban on VD Savarkar book on Jesus Christ
25-Feb-2016
Feb 25, 2016 | AGE CORRESPONDENT With agency inputs| mumbai A Christian organisation has demanded a ban on a controversial book penned by the brother of Hindutva ideologue V.D. Savarkar, claiming Jesus Christ was a Tamil Hindu. The book, written by Ganesh ‘Babarao’ Savarkar in 1946, is being re-launched on February 26. “The present scenario…
20 days later, daughter says father murdered by mother and her lover
25-Feb-2016
Feb 25 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Nishikant Karlikar Thane: Duo Smothered Man, Said It Was Heart Attack: Cops A 37-year-old wife, who conspired with her young lover and killed her husband, a manager with an electronics retailer, was arrested by the Kapurbawdi police on Monday after the couple’s 19-year-old daughter exposed the…
At Kalayat, Jats identified, targeted non-Jat properties as police looked on
25-Feb-2016
Protests left one dead, 17 injured; 25 FIRs registered, three arrested in Kaithal Written by Sanjeev Verma | Kalayat (kaithal) | Updated: February 25, 2016 10:17 am THE KILLING of a man and the widespread looting of shops and businesses have left this town bitterly opposed to the Jat community, and angry that the police…
WOMEN UNDER ATTACK – Ankleshwar school principal booked for rape
24-Feb-2016
Feb 24 2016 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Ankleshwar: TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ankleshwar police on Tuesday booked 50-year-old Shailesh Patel, principal of a municipality-run school, for rape, a day after video clips of he allegedly getting physically intimate with minor girls surfaced. An FIR was lodged against Patel following a complaint lodged by father…
Two acquitted in nun’s gang-rape case
24-Feb-2016
Staff Reporter BERHAMPUR, February 24, 2016 Ganjam district sessions court in Berhampur acquitted two persons due to lack of evidence in a case of gang-rape of a nun in Tikabali police station area on September 19, 2008, during communal riots in Kandhamal district of Odisha. Ganjam District and Sessions Judge Malaya Ranjan Dash on Monday…