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Kolkata film school prof held for `rape’ Priyanka Dasgupta

20-Jan-2016

Jan 20 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Kolkata: Picked Up From Thane After He Had Gone Missing Neeraj Sahay , a professor at Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute SRFTI), was arrested in Thane, Maharashtra, on Tuesday evening, around seven weeks after a student accused him of forcing her into sex. The Panchasayer…

Riots rape clip triggers tension in Muzzaffarnagar

20-Jan-2016

Jan 20 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Meerut: TIMES NEWS NETWORK One of UP’s most restive districts is on the boil again after a rape clip, of a woman getting violated during the riots of 2013 in Muzaffarnagar, went public earlier last week. BJP leaders, some of them accused in the riots, have…

Dalit’s suicide snowballs into political storm

20-Jan-2016

Wednesday, January 20, 2016 The suicide by a dalit student of Hyderabad University has snowballed into a major issue with BJP’s rivals wading into it and demanding the removal of Union Ministers Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya, accusing them of being responsible for the death. As Congress mounted the demand for the sacking of the…

HYDERABAD STUDENT SUICIDE – Dalit students stage silent protest

20-Jan-2016

Jan 20 2016 : Mirror (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad Mirror Bureau amfeedback@timesgroup in TWEETS @ahmedabadmirror (WITH AGENCY INPUTS) Fifty students of Central University of Gujarat (CUG) gathered to condemn actions of University of Hyderabad that allegedly led to Rohith’s suicide Protesting the suicide of 26-year-old Dalit student Rohith Vemula in Hydera bad on Sunday, around 50 Dalit…

In Tamil Nadu’s Vazhavur, another story of Dalit death and prejudice

20-Jan-2016

Written by Arun Janardhanan | Madurai | Updated: January 20, 2016 8:08 am Policemen carry the body of Chellamuthu through the forest path for burial at Vazhavur, Nagapattinam. WITH A straight face, M Karthikeyan says his grandparents, who died recently, received “the distinction of a state burial”. “They were buried by police, only the 21-gun…

Four-year-old allegedly raped by conductor in school bus in Ujjain

20-Jan-2016

Jan 20, 2016 | • Agencies | • Ujjain The alleged rapist tried to escape but has been arrested. Ujjain: A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a moving school bus by the conductor in Ujjain on Tuesday. According to latest reports, the alleged rapist tried to escape but has been arrested. A case has…

Shakti Mills gangrape case: Minor accused’s treatment may come to haunt cops

20-Jan-2016

Jan 20, 2016 – Shahab Ansari | mumbai The trials in the 2013 gang rape cases in Central Mumbai’s deserted Shakti Mills compound could be one of the most successful as the prosecution not only managed to prove guilt of all the arrested accused, but also secured death sentence under a newly-amended law for three…

Four suicide bids by rape victim in Muzaffarnagar after her video surfaced, says family

20-Jan-2016

He father, a 50-year-old farmer, said, Every time I speak to her, she tells me that she does not want to live. Why did she not tell us what she was undergoing all these years? Written by Aditi Vatsa | Muzaffarnagar | Updated: January 20, 2016 9:21 am Two days ago, the family shifted her…

Pandit couple returns to Muslim neighbourhood in Kashmir

20-Jan-2016

Peerzada Ashiq Srinagar, January 20, 2016 One reason I stayed in Muslim colony is relate with my youthful days, says Omkar Razdan. A Kashmiri Pandit couple is back in the Kashmir Valley. What makes the return of Omkar Razdan (70) and Vijay Bazaz Razdan (65) unique is they refused to take the Prime Minister’s package.…