Gwalior, June 17 (IANS) A 17-year-old girl was allegedly attacked with an axe in her house in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district by a youth, who had been stalking and harassing her, and then thrown off the roof, leaving her battling for her life at a hospital in Gwalior.Police have reportedly arrested the accused.According to the victim’s mother, the girl was alone at their house on Friday. “As soon as the boy entered the house and started harassing her, she went to the terrace. The boy followed…
Latest Assault News & Updates
Kolkata, June 1 (IANS) After winning the recently concluded West Bengal elections through various unfair means, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is using the state police to break the Trinamool Congress from inside, alleged Mamata Banerjee on Monday. She claimed that many MLAs were first receiving threat calls from the police, warning them to refrain from party-related activities or face cases under the Arms Act and the Narcotics Act.“After that, the same MLAs are receiving calls from differen…
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) In a major breakthrough under the ongoing special drive against proclaimed offenders and externees, a team of Hauz Qazi Police Station in the national capital on Saturday apprehended a notorious proclaimed offender involved in 69 criminal cases, who had been absconding, to evade judicial proceedings in a theft case. The accused, identified as Babloo alias Narendra alias Prem, a resident of Multani Dhanda in Delhi’s Paharganj, was arrested following sustained technical sur…
Bengaluru, May 2 (IANS) In a road rage case reported on Saturday from Bettadasanapura near Electronics City in Bengaluru, a couple from West Bengal was allegedly assaulted by a group of miscreants in broad daylight. The group had not only assaulted the couple in the middle of the road but also damaged the vehicle.The incident of assault has been captured by the dashboard camera of the car and raised concerns. The visuals have gone viral on social media. The police have launched a hunt for the ac…
Jaipur, April 30 (IANS) The police have detained three persons for allegedly assaulting a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA during a meeting in Sri Ganganagar in Rajasthan on Thursday, triggering political outrage and prompting police action.According to reports, the incident took place in the afternoon at the ‘MLA Seva Kendra’ located within the Bihani College campus, where MLA Jaideep Bihani was holding a meeting with officials to discuss the ongoing drinking water crisis in the city.During…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday declined to interfere with the Delhi High Court’s refusal to suspend the sentence of expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the custodial death case of the Unnao rape survivor’s father. Taking note that Sengar’s criminal appeal against his conviction and 10-year sentence is already listed before the Delhi High Court on February 11, a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant observed that the High Court may be requested…
Minnesota, Jan 28 (IANS) Somali-origin US lawmaker Ilhan Omar was sprayed with an unknown substance during a town hall meeting she was hosting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, triggering security concerns.A purported video of the incident surfaced on social media shortly after the attack on Tuesday (local time) and began circulating widely online.The footage shows a man approaching Omar as she was addressing the gathering from the dais.Moments later, he is seen spraying a thin stream of an unidentifie…
Hubballi (Karnataka), Jan 7 (IANS) The Karnataka Police on Wednesday rejected a female BJP worker’s claims that she was assaulted and stripped by cops during a dispute related to the voter revision exercise in Hubballi.Responding to the assault and stripping of a BJP worker by male and female police personnel, Hubballi-Dharwad Police Commissioner N. Shashikumar rejected the allegations, stating that she “had stripped herself”.Meanwhile, the State Women’s Commission, reacting to the development…