Tag: Harassment

Video | ‘Why wear rings, bangles, shows what you are’: UP cop harasses girl with molestation plaint

Sharing the clip on her Twitter handle, Priyanka Gandhi lashed out the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government over such shocking behaviour of cops.

July 25, 2019

Television actress alleges harassment by cab driver

Soon after she got into the car, the driver started to misbehave with her and hurled abusive words.

July 11, 2019

Paralakhemundi gets child-friendly court

As per the directions of the Supreme Court, the Juvenile Courts, which are also known as Child Courts, are being started in every district in order to expedite cases relating to the young kids and children.

July 1, 2019

2 women killed for objecting to harassment of family members, accused arrested

Taking swift action police had arrested the main accused Nakul of Nayagaon Chandpur while raids are being conducted to arrest the other two accused.

June 26, 2019

India lodges protest with Pakistan over harassment of guests invited for Iftar

Those guests who did reach the venue, in some cases from as far as Karachi and Lahore, were intimidated and physically stopped from attending the function, the Indian High Commission said.

June 2, 2019

Activists want PepsiCo to compensate farmers for ‘harassment’

Nine farmers from Sabarkantha and Aravalli districts were sued by PepsiCo in two separate courts for allegedly growing a variety of potatoes for which the company has claimed plant variety protection (PVP) rights, and sought damages ranging from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 1 crore from each of them. Agitated by PepsiCo's earlier decision to sue potato growing farmers for allegedly growing a variety of potato registered by it, around 25 major farmers' bodies of Gujarat and the country, including Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), along with activists and NGOs have decided to form a central body - Seed Sovereignty Forum - to protect farmers' rights on seeds. A meeting to chalk out an action plan under this umbrella body was held on Friday at the Gujarat Vidyapith here, said farm rights activist, Kapil Shah of NGO 'Jatan'.

May 3, 2019

Well-managed web of trolls behind harassment: suspended DoT official Ashish Joshi

A senior official of the Department of Telecom (DoT) who was suspended a day after he complained to the Delhi Police Commissioner about a “highly incendiary” video, alleged that a “well-managed web of trolls are harassing citizens”.

March 4, 2019

Indian diplomats in Pak ‘denied gas connections, internet services’; New Delhi resents

Earlier in the year, there were reports of Indian officials being aggressively followed in vehicles and their families including children being harassed on way to schools.

December 22, 2018

Mumbai: ‘Fed up’ with woman’s demand for sex, man commits suicide, say cops

Mitkari's suicide note said the woman was aware that he was married but nonetheless was continuously after him, demanding to have sexual relations with him, police said.

October 16, 2018

Pak envoy to India set to return on Thursday

Pakistan High Commissioner to India Sohail Mahmood is set to return to India on Thursday even as the two countries continue to trade charges over incidents of harassment of each other’s diplomats in respective missions. Diplomatic sources said Mahmood, who was called back to Islamabad for consultations last week in the midst of the Indo-Pak …

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March 28, 2018

Our diplomats in Pakistan facing tremendous harassment: India

India on Sunday said it would investigate Pakistan’s charge that its diplomats posted in New Delhi were facing harassment even as it levelled serious allegations against Islamabad for harassing Indian diplomats posted at the High Commission in Pakistan. “The Pakistan High Commission has brought to MEA’s notice some incidents of alleged harassment over the last few days. …

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March 12, 2018

Delhi: Girl apprehends harasser, drags him to police station

A Delhi woman who was being followed and harassed by two men in the busy Gaffar Market in the national capital, took the matters in her on hand by apprehending one of her harasser and dragging him to a nearest police station. The incident reportedly occurred on 25 February. The men continuing with their lewd …

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February 27, 2018

Woman harassed by three men in bus

A woman was allegedly harassed by three men in a roadways bus on Delhi-Saharanpur highway in neighbouring Shamli district, police said on Saturday, 3 February. The accused also assaulted the woman’s husband and father-in-law when they objected to their behaviour. The woman was on her way from Kandhla to Saharanpur, accompanied by her husband and …

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February 3, 2018

Stop harassment, beg kin of deceased CBI Judge B H Loya

Dismissing any “suspicions” over the death of CBI Special Judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya, his family members on Sunday appealed to the media, lawyers, NGOs and others “not to harass” them in the matter. Addressing a hurriedly convened press conference, Anuj Loya and other relatives said that for the family, Judge Loya’s passing in December 2014 …

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January 15, 2018

Singer Ghazal Srinivas arrested for sexual harassment

Popular Telugu singer Ghazal Srinivas was arrested on Tuesday on charges of sexual harassment and a court later sent him to judicial custody till January 12. The singer, whose real name is Kesiraju Srinivas, was shifted to Chanchalguda Central Jail. His bail petition will come up for hearing on Wednesday. Srinivas was taken into custody …

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January 3, 2018

Misery at work, and at home

It has been a year full of revelations. Some of them have been shocking: the corrupt dealings of some political leaders and the lewd habits of other Hollywood producers, all have been exposed on the pages of newspapers. The #MeToo hashtag that began a few months ago gave women who had access to the internet …

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December 29, 2017

Zaira molestation case: NCW writes to Maha DGP, Vistara

The National Commission for Women (NCW) has written to the Maharashtra DGP and the ethics officer of Vistara Airlines over allegation that Dangal actress Zaira Wasim was molested on board a flight from Delhi to Mumbai. In an email to them, the NCW said it had taken cognizance of media reports regarding the incident and …

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December 10, 2017