Mumbai, March 25 (IANS) The Maharashtra Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed the Bill presented by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to amend the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), effectively integrating the stringent provisions of the Shakti Act into the new national criminal code and incorporating two provisions in it. The two provisions that are being introduced via amendment include non-disclosure of names of victims of acid attack and penalising harassment via phone, social media, lewd digi…
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New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report which highlighted an alleged illegal racket involving the extraction and sale of eggs from financially vulnerable women in Maharashtra’s Badlapur area.Describing the report as “disturbing”, the Commission said the revelations point to an organised network that exploited women through repeated commercial egg donations, in clear violation of the provisions of the Assisted Reproductiv…