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…
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New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Cricket has long been celebrated as a gentleman’s game, but in the age of social media, the line between passionate fandom and online mob fury has increasingly blurred. Too often, it is the families of cricketers who pay the heaviest price.Over the past decade, several incidents involving communal abuse, rape threats, relentless trolling, and mental-health trauma have exposed the darker side of modern cricket fandom.From India to Australia, prominent cricketers and the…
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) All India Football Federation (AIFF) President Kalyan Chaubey has broken his silence regarding allegations of harassment and “heckling” levelled by woman Executive Committee member Valanka Alemao, saying, “I want to know the meaning of ‘heckle’. Alemao, who is also a member of the FIFA Women’s Development Committee, wrote a letter to FIFA Ethics Committee chair Martin Ngoga and FIFA Women’s Football Committee chair Laura Georges, seeking an inquiry into the matter …
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court has quashed criminal proceedings against a Gujarat-based man accused of abetting suicide over alleged harassment for repayment of loans, holding that mere demand for repayment of debt cannot constitute abetment.Allowing the appeal filed by Dhirubhai Nanjibhai Patel Lotwala, a bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Manmohan set aside the Gujarat High Court’s order, which had refused to quash the FIR and subsequent proceedings under Sections 306 and 506(2)…
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) While Pakistan has enacted important legal protections for women in the workplace, the real challenge is enforcing those laws, with many organisations failing to establish functional inquiry committees or treating them as formalities, a new report has said.At an event organised by the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) on occasion of International Women’s Day, participants highlighted that fear of retaliation, social stigma and lack of trust …
Hyderabad, Jan 30 (IANS) Unable to bear constant harassment by two men, including a distant relative, a young woman police Constable died by suicide in Telangana’s Warangal district.Anita, who was working as a Constable in the Warangal Police Commissionerate’s Armed Reserve division, consumed pesticides at her house in Seethya thanda in Parvathagiri mandal of Warangal district on January 27. The family members rushed her to a hospital where she later succumbed.Police took up the investigatio…