Citizens for Justice and Peace
Minor rape victim raped again in Jamshedpur hospital, one held
02-Feb-2016
Written by Prashant Pandey | Jamshedpur | Updated: February 2, 2016 3:07 am The minor was allegedly raped by a private security guard on duty in the hospital on Sunday, police said. Five days after she was raped near her home in Parsudih area of Jamshedpur and hospitalised, a 14-year-old was raped again on Sunday…
Couple tortures girl, held
02-Feb-2016
Feb 02, 2016 – Ashita Dadheech | • mumbai They allegedly forced 8-year-old minor to do housework The Kurar police has nabbed a man and his wife for allegedly torturing an eight-year-old girl, who is the man’s niece, who was staying with them since her mother’s death. Prahlad Vishwakarma (39) and his wife Laxmidevi (35)…
Thousands from city demand justice for Rohith
02-Feb-2016
• 2 Feb 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • HT Correspondent htmetro@hindustantimes.com Activists, students, social workers want action against those responsible for Dalit scholar’s suicide MUMBAI: Thousands of students, political activists and social workers came out on the streets to protest against the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad. Sporting caps that read…
Woman IPS alleges harassment
02-Feb-2016
Feb 02, 2016 | • PTI | • Thiruvananthapuram Two senior IPS officers in Kerala were Monday at the centre of a bitter row with a woman officer accusing her male colleague of harassing her for nearly three decades and also being behind a vigilance probe against her. Additional director-general of police R. Sreelekha in…
Acid attack on Mehsana girl
02-Feb-2016
The Mehsana SP said that the girl seems to have lost her right eye whereas, 95 per cent of her face has sustained burn injuries along with other body parts like chest, shoulder and legs. By: Express News Service | Ahmedabad | Updated: February 2, 2016 3:36 am The girl had refused the accused’s proposal…
ASI allows Hindus to do puja, Muslims to offer namaz at Bhojshala on Basant Panchmi
02-Feb-2016
PTI Dhar, February 2, 2016 Hindus can perform puja and Muslims can offer namaz at the disputed Bhojshala monument in the district on Basant Panchmi on February 12, the Archaeological Survey of India said in an order. Tension has been brewing up in the district since last one month in the run-up to the festival…
Muslims perform last rites of 84-yr old Kashmiri Pandit
02-Feb-2016
Srinagar, Feb 2, 2016, (PTI): In a heart warming example of Kashmiriyat, Muslims of a village in Kulgam district of south Kashmir performed the last rites of a Kashmiri Pandit, who clung his roots and refused to leave the valley when all others in his family fled under threat from militants. Janki Nath (84), a…
Vemula protests: Video shows cops’ brutal face
02-Feb-2016
Woman pulled by her hair, agitating students beaten up Aradhna Wal @aradhnaw New Delhi: A video of extreme police brutality did the rounds on Monday, forcing people to take note of the lathicharge on university students carrying out a protest for justice of Rohith Vemula, the Dalit student from Hyderabad who had committed suicide earlier…
60 Dalit students in Bihar threaten suicide
02-Feb-2016
Amarnath Tewary Patna, February 2, 2016 Sixty Dalit students from Bihar, who are studying engineering in Orissa, have threatened to commit suicide after the Bihar government allegedly stopped paying their stipends to the college, and the students were forced to leave the institution. All the 60 students had secured their admission in Rajdhani Engineering College,…
There is no intolerance, says Najma Heptullah
02-Feb-2016
I took it up before the Cabinet and within a minute, the Cabinet increased it to Rs 3,000 crore. By: Express News Service | Jaipur | Published:February 2, 2016 12:57 am Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptullah Monday said there was “no intolerance” in the country and that the decisions taken by the Narendra Modi government…