Chandigarh, July 27 (IANS) A Punjab BJP delegation led by the party’s National President of the Central Valmiki Sabha India, Gejja Ram Valmiki, on Monday met the Governor of Punjab and submitted a memorandum seeking justice for sanitation workers who were cane-charged by police during a protest in Barnala town.In the memorandum, Valmiki, a former Chairman of the Punjab Safai Karamchari Commission, said the peaceful protest by ‘safai karamcharis’, demanding legitimate rights, was met with a…
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Chikkamagaluru (Karnataka), July 26 (IANS) High drama unfolded outside the residence of BJP MLC C.T. Ravi in Chikkamagaluru on Sunday after Karnataka Police arrived to serve a notice directing him to appear for questioning in connection with a hate speech case registered over his remarks during a protest against the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET). The police action triggered heated exchanges between officers, BJP workers and advocates gathered at Ravi’s residence, with party suppo…
Kolkata, July 26 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of Congress has registered an FIR against Manish Gupta, a former West Bengal minister in the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress regime and also a former bureaucrat in the Left Front regime in the state, over the infamous police firing in which 13 youth Congress workers died during a protest rally on July 21, 1993.Late Jyoti Basu was the Chief Minister of the state in 1993, and Gupta was the state Home Secretary when the police firing happ…
Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) The West Bengal Government will be placing the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India on the income and expenditures from the state exchequer on the floor of the Assembly on July 25, which will be the last day of the ongoing extended Budget Session of the House.Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari made an announcement on this count while addressing the floor of the House on Wednesday afternoon while giving his reply on discussions on the budgetary alloc…
Lalitpur (Uttar Pradesh), July 16 (IANS) In a shocking incident of betrayal and sexual assault reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Lalitpur district, a 19-year-old woman was abducted by a man who she was allegedly in a relationship for the last four years and gangraped by him and his friends in a moving car, police said on Thursday.Speaking on the case, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Kalu Singh said: “The victim had been in a relationship with the accused, Badal Raja, for the past four year…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Monday strongly condemned the alleged brutal assault on advocate Pankaj Sharma, terming it an attack on the institution of justice and expressing serious concern over the manner in which the investigation has been conducted.In a resolution passed by its Executive Committee, the SCBA said it was “deeply concerned” and “unequivocally condemns the brutal physical assault” on Sharma, a senior member of the Bar, who was allegedly a…
Ranchi, July 13 (IANS) A horrifying case has come to light from Jharkhand’s Gumla district, where officials on Monday said a three-year-old girl was raped, following which a village panchayat attempted to stifle the case by imposing a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the accused instead of reporting the crime to police. The incident took place in Palma village of the Gumla district. According to the officials, the accused, identified as Sunil Lohra, was directed by the panchayat to pay Rs 20,000 — which wa…
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday declined to initiate any action against a litigant appearing in person who allegedly hurled abuses, threw papers in open court and disrupted proceedings during the hearing of his plea challenging an order of the Allahabad High Court. A Bench of Justices K.V. Viswanathan and Alok Aradhe, while dismissing the Special Leave Petition (SLP), recorded that the petitioner, Prabal Pratap, “instead of presenting the case, made incoherent and unparliam…
Ayodhya, July 7 (IANS) Mahant Kamal Nayan Das, the designated successor to Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, on Tuesday said that no one wanted Champat Rai to step down as the General Secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, even as the Trust accepted his resignation following the controversy surrounding the alleged Ram Temple donation irregularities. The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust on Monday accepted the resignations of General Secretary Champat Rai and trustee Anil Mish…
Patna, July 7 (IANS) Bihar’s Munger Police will produce a suspected anti-national operative before a local court on Tuesday and seek judicial remand for further interrogation in connection with an alleged terror conspiracy and suspected cross-border links.Police claimed that the suspected anti-national operative was arrested on Monday and was in contact with a cross-border network. Police said he was planning a major terror incident along with two associates.However, officials have emphasized th…