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Topic: molestation

How ‘school mein maje’ Instagram post by student led HC to suspend teacher’s sentence in POCSO case

Teacher was sentenced under POCSO Act & sections of IPC for molesting the student. HC suspended his sentence pending appeal against conviction.

Man kills doctor in South Delhi, claims he touched him ‘inappropriately’

The accused, 23, flew into a fit of rage and strangled the 52-year-old doctor and slit his throat, say police.

Did Captain & fiancée ‘attack’ cops or were they ‘manhandled’? Army to take up case with Odisha authorities

While police are quoted as saying that officer & fiancée created fracas & injured four police personnel, Army’s situational reports and his statement present a different picture.

‘Molestation’ case: Chandigarh court frames charges against former Haryana minister Sandeep Singh

But, additional chief judicial magistrate dismisses petitioner’s plea to add attempt to rape charges. FIR was lodged in December 2022.

Campus attack on IIT-BHU being probed as gang rape? Police ‘add IPC sections’ to original FIR

Varanasi Police Commissioner Ashok Mutha Jain refuses to confirm or deny news report that quoted him as saying that IPC sections added to IIT-BHU FIR include 376-d (gang rape).

Haryana girls stood up against ‘predator’ principal. But parents, teachers pulling them back

A public school principal in Haryana’s Jind district allegedly turned into a serial predator, picking girls through CCTVs and molesting them in his office under the protection of a tinted glass door he installed soon after joining in 2018.

Three held in Ambedkar Nagar schoolgirl’s death to be tried under Gangsters Act, say cops

Two accused were shot in the leg & third broke his leg during failed attempt to flee while being taken for medical examination Sunday, says SP (Ambedkar Nagar).

Five men arrested after viral video shows them forcibly stripping woman in UP’s Hamirpur

Two of the five arrested in the case are minors. Police say they were trying to extort money out of the woman and her partner.

400 Pakistani men sexually assault a woman in Lahore. Twitter says ‘no less than Taliban’

Lahore Police has filed an FIR against hundreds of unidentified men for sexually assaulting a woman who was filming a TikTok video at Minar-e-Pakistan on the country’s Independence Day.

Assam Rifles says IPS officer who alleged molestation by jawan had illegally entered Myanmar

Assam Rifles statement calls allegations of molestation against jawan on security duty ‘fallacious & misguided’, says the woman IPS officer was misusing her power.

On Camera

Telangana spoke up for Muslim vendor who was attacked. South is different from the North

A poor Muslim man from Kurnool, selling khoya buns during the Medaram Jatara in Telangana, was harassed by some YouTubers and surrounded by a mob over allegations of 'food jihad'.

Venezuela crude returns to India’s oil basket. But only as ‘supplementary’ supply

Indian refiners are testing Venezuelan barrels again as Russian supply sinks, but analysts say volumes will remain limited due to refinery constraints & supply capacity.

US military commander, envoy Sergio Gor visit Indian Army Western Command, Bengaluru next

At the Western Army Command, the American delegation was briefed on the capabilities of the formation, past operations and the path ahead.

The new Great Game—Trump’s playing for time, China for leverage & India for wiggle room

This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.