sc/st (prevention of atrocities) act

New Delhi, April 2 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and withdraw the cases filed against Dalit and Adivasi youth in April 2018 during nationwide protests against the dilution of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.In a letter to...

Hyderabad, March 29 A government teacher was arrested for allegedly "sexually assaulting" a girl student of a Zilla Parishad High School in Narayanpet district of Telangana, police said on Sunday.The incident occurred in Maddur mandal.Six others—two government teachers and the school...

Palakkad (Kerala), March 28 The Congress on Saturday expelled a councillor from the Palakkad Municipality from the party following a complaint of sexual assault against him.The Palakkad District Congress Committee (DCC) president, A Thankappan, said that Prashob C Valsan, a councillor from the...

Bengaluru, March 10 A Karnataka court has sentenced a 25-year-old man to 40 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl with physical and mental disabilities in the Belagavi district.The accused, Dhareppa alias Dheeraj Angata Khanase, illegally entered the girl's house while her...

New Delhi, March 7 Seven people, including a minor, were apprehended in connection with the death of a 26-year-old man in a clash between two neighboring families with long-standing disputes during Holi celebrations in southwest Delhi's Uttam Nagar, police said on Saturday.Provisions of the...

Hyderabad, February 22 Four people have been arrested in connection with a case registered after a family alleged that their two-month-old daughter died following an "assault" by a group of villagers in the Nagarkurnool district of Telangana, police said on Sunday.The alleged incident took...

Gandhinagar, February 19 The Congress and the ruling BJP engaged in a heated debate in the Gujarat assembly on Thursday after MLA Jignesh Mevani from the opposition party alleged that Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel was not holding regular meetings of the state-level monitoring cell established...

Chikkamagaluru (Karnataka), February 17 – Tension prevailed in the Vijayanagar locality of Chikkamagaluru city on Tuesday following allegations that a house belonging to a particular community had been targeted with continuous stone pelting for the past week by members of another community. The...

New Delhi, February 16 The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an appeal against the Telangana High Court order quashing a 2016 FIR against Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy under sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and the IPC.A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and...