criminal intimidation

Pithoragarh, April 11 A court here has ordered the registration of an FIR against former IPS officer Lokeshwar Singh for allegedly stripping and beating an RTI activist who had raised a grievance regarding a sewage overflow from the family quarters of the Police Lines.Laxmi Datt Joshi, a...

Palghar, April 8 A 48-year-old real estate agent has been arrested for allegedly grabbing and illegally selling another person's land in Palghar district, Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday.The accused, Surendra Pratap Singh, alias Randha, is alleged to have taken possession of 210...

Kolkata, April 5 – The Election Commission has suspended the Officer-in-Charge (OC) of the Kasba police station over the omission of Sona Pappu alias Biswajit Poddar’s name from the list of active criminals, a Commission insider said on Sunday.Ahead of the Assembly polls, the Commission had...

Chandigarh, April 4 The Punjab BJP staged a protest in Amritsar on Saturday against the AAP government over the recent suicide of an official of a warehousing corporation, demanding justice for his family.The entire state leadership, including Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar, national...

New Delhi, April 3 A Delhi court has acquitted the owner of a health club here of charges of sexual harassment and criminal intimidation filed by a former client, holding that the allegations were too "general" and lacked specific details necessary for conviction.Additional Sessions Judge...

New Delhi, April 3 A Delhi court has convicted a former sub-inspector for forging the signatures of senior police officers on charge sheets and submitting them in court, and found her guilty of sending a threatening message to a senior officer.Judicial Magistrate Saurabh Goyal said the police...

Kanpur (UP), April 1 A 25-year-old woman has accused her husband and in-laws of forcing her to participate in naked occult rituals, sexually abusing her, and subjecting her to prolonged physical and mental torture, police said on Wednesday.According to the FIR, the woman, a resident of...

Kanpur, March 31 A 21-year-old Bachelor of Medical Lab Technology (BMLT) student has accused three of her college classmates of attempting to rape her a fortnight ago on campus, police said on Tuesday.According to a complaint lodged on Monday, the incident took place on March 16 in a classroom...

New Delhi, March 31 The Delhi High Court has awarded a 10-year prison sentence to a woman for aiding her minor brother in committing the crime of rape in 2013.Justice Chandrasekharan Sudha said that the convict played an "active and deliberate" role in luring the victim and was not only...

New Delhi, March 30 A Delhi court has acquitted a man charged with sexually harassing and criminally intimidating his neighbor, stating that the complainant's testimony suffered from multiple inconsistencies.In her recent ruling, Judicial Magistrate Anamika also stated that the testimony...

Patiala, March 29 A court here on Sunday extended the police remand of AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra by seven days. Pathanmajra, who was arrested by the Punjab Police from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, on Tuesday night, had escaped police custody in a rape case more than six months ago.The MLA...

Bareilly (UP), March 28 The son of a petrol pump owner and his three associates have been arrested for allegedly illegally entering a Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) depot in Aonla in the Bareilly district and threatening its official after he refused their demand for more fuel...

Bhadohi (UP), March 28 Three people, including the brother of a former BSP district president, have been booked for allegedly cheating a man here by promising him a government job for his relative and later threatening and assaulting him, police said on Saturday.According to Gopiganj Station...

Prayagraj, March 26 The Allahabad High Court has expressed serious concern over the lapses in the registration of a police case, noting that while the complaint mentioned rape, the FIR did not invoke the relevant sections related to it.The high court directed senior Uttar Pradesh Police and...

New Delhi, March 26 A Delhi court has convicted two men for attempting to commit culpable homicide, and for criminally intimidating and insulting the modesty of a woman, after it found the testimony of the defense witnesses to be lacking critical details and likely manipulated.Additional...

New Delhi, March 26 Delhi Police have arrested a 44-year-old woman and her associate for allegedly running a honey-trap and extortion racket by filing multiple criminal cases to pressure victims into monetary settlements, an official said on Thursday.The accused woman, a resident of Daryaganj...

Patiala, March 25 AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra was arrested by the Punjab Police from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, more than six months after he escaped police custody in a rape case.Officials said on Wednesday that Pathanmajra, the first-time MLA from Sanour in Patiala, was apprehended from...

Patiala, March 25 AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, who had been on the run in a rape case since last September, was arrested by the Punjab Police from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, officials said on Wednesday.Pathanmajra, the first-time MLA from Sanour, was apprehended in Gwalior and is being...

Patiala, March 25 AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, who had been on the run in a rape case since last September, was arrested in Patiala, Punjab, officials said on Wednesday.Pathanmajra, the first-time MLA from Sanour, was wanted in connection with the rape case, which was registered last...

Chandigarh, March 23 The wife of a state employee who allegedly committed suicide due to harassment by former minister Laljit Singh Bhullar demanded a CBI investigation into his death on Monday.Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, the district manager of the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation in...