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Pakur (Jharkhand), March 30 A lawyer was arrested in Jharkhand's Pakur district on Monday on the charge of sexually assaulting a law student for several months.The police arrested the lawyer after the victim, who was pursuing an LLB degree, filed a complaint with the Pakur town police station...

Nagpur, March 27 A fourth-year BA LLB student at the Maharashtra National Law University (MNLU) has been accused of harassing her younger roommate, according to a Nagpur police official on Friday.The student was booked based on a complaint filed by a professor at the Butibori police station...

Mumbai, March 27 Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sushma Andhare on Friday claimed that former Maharashtra State Commission for Women chairperson Rupali Chakankar cleared music director Anu Malik in a sexual harassment case, and later her son appeared in a film produced by him.While Malik denied the...

New Delhi, March 25 A student from Delhi University and another from Jawaharlal Nehru University have claimed that they have filed complaints at the Vasant Kunj (North) police station against the JNU Vice-Chancellor, alleging that she made remarks directed against the Dalit community in February...

Bengaluru, March 24 Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh will file an affidavit apologizing and also visit Chamundi Hill, the Karnataka High Court was informed on Tuesday during the hearing of his plea to quash a complaint and FIR over alleged remarks on a divine character from the film Kantara Chapter...

Lucknow, March 24 The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday refused to grant relief to MLC Akshay Pratap Singh and others who are accused in a case involving serious allegations of fraud and forgery leveled by the wife of former cabinet minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja...

Lucknow, March 21 A man was arrested here on Saturday for allegedly kidnapping a 17-year-old girl under the guise of a marriage proposal, police said.On March 15, the girl's parents filed a complaint at the local police station under sections 87 (kidnapping, abduction, or forcing a woman into...

Mumbai, March 17 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Tuesday that out of the 136 cases recommended by the state human rights commission over 12 years, action had been taken in only 57 cases.Fadnavis made the statement in the assembly after BJP MLA Atul Bhatkhalkar raised the...

Mumbai, March 17 Actress and politician Kangana Ranaut has strongly reacted to the controversy surrounding actress Nora Fatehi’s song ‘Sarke Chunar Teri Sarke’.The actress spoke to the media outside the Parliament, and criticized the Hindi film industry for “crossing all limits to achieve...

New Delhi, March 17 The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued summons to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami in a defamation case filed by the Congress, which alleged that he had falsely claimed that the Istanbul Congress Centre in Turkey is the office of the political party.Justice Mini...

Mumbai, March 16 – Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis defended the state government's move to introduce the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill on Monday, which aims to curb unlawful religious conversions within the state.He stated that the Bill was presented in response to several...

New Delhi, March 13 A day after three members of a family in Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, allegedly committed suicide due to threats of being falsely implicated in SC/ST cases, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking directions to allow a person or victim to file a...

New Delhi, March 13 – A Delhi court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking the registration of an FIR against Delhi Law and Justice Minister Kapil Mishra in connection with the 2020 North-East Delhi riots.Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Ashwani Panwar of the Rouse Avenue Court rejected...

Chandigarh, March 11 The Haryana Police have registered a case against twelve individuals for allegedly attacking a Meghalaya Police team and attempting to free an accused in an ATM robbery case from their custody, officials said on Wednesday.According to the Nuh police, the case relates to an...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 10 – In a dramatic turn in the controversy surrounding Kerala Transport Minister K. B. Ganesh Kumar, his wife Bindu Menon stated on Tuesday that she would not pursue any complaint against the minister, stating that the issue arose out of an emotional moment and has now...

Mumbai, March 5 – The Mahayuti government in Maharashtra approved the long-awaited anti-conversion Bill, titled the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Act, 2026, during a Cabinet meeting on Thursday.The Bill will be introduced in the Maharashtra Legislature during the ongoing Budget Session...

Thane, March 5 Four individuals have been booked for allegedly assaulting a shopkeeper in Bhiwandi, in the Thane district, a police official said on Thursday.Sunny Dubey (19) was attacked by four individuals on March 3 after he refused to accompany them to a Holi party, according to an...

Budaun (UP), February 28 A revenue officer narrowly avoided injury on Saturday after a group of lawyers allegedly stormed into his office and threw a chair at him here, officials said.The incident occurred after the official allegedly "misbehaved" with the assistant of a female lawyer. The...

Gorakhpur (UP), February 27 A 42-year-old lawyer was allegedly killed after a dispute over land in the Bansgaon Nagar Panchayat area here on Friday morning, police said.The victim, identified as Agnivesh Singh, a resident of ward number 9, was allegedly assaulted after an argument over...

Thiruvananthapuram, February 27 BJP councillor and former Kerala DGP R Sreelekha said on Friday that the complaint against her for allegedly revealing the identity of a rape victim was part of an attempt to "smear her character," and that a charge under the POCSO Act would not stand.She was...