Kolkata: Invoking Goddess Durga, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday reaffirmed his government’s irrevocable commitment to women’s empowerment. Reaching out to the people of West Bengal during the state’s biggest festival, the prime minister said though it was being celebrated on a limited scale due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the “enthusiasm is still unlimited”. Noting … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Sunday said the Indian democracy is passing through its “most difficult phase”, as she chaired a party meeting during which the roadmap for its agitation over farm bills and alleged atrocities on Dalits was deliberated upon. Addressing a meeting of AICC general secretaries and state-incharges, which she presided over, … Read more
A CBI team visited the Hathras victim’s family and quizzed them for nearly 5 hours about the case. A CBI team had visited the victim’s family on October 13 too and quizzed them about the case. (File photo) A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) visited the family of the Hathras victim on … Read more
By Javeed Ahmed The political discourse in UP has always given disproportionately high weightage to law and order. Every government proclaims its success in providing an ‘apraadh mukt’ (crime-free) environment where investment and industry can thrive, while opposition parties use every crime incident to pick holes in the government’s claims. Since 2017, the current government … Read more
The Supreme Court Thursday said the Allahabad High Court be allowed to monitor the Hathras case in which a Dalit girl was allegedly brutally raped and died of injuries. The top court, which was hearing a PIL and several intervention pleas of activists and lawyers, was told that no fair trial was possible in Uttar … Read more
The Uttar Pradesh government informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday that a “three-fold protection mechanism” has been put in place for security of the victim’s family members and witnesses in the Hathras case in which a Dalit girl was allegedly brutally raped and died due to injuries. The state government, which earlier said that probe … Read more
The CBI team probing the Hathras case has re-summoned the victim’s father and two brothers for questioning. File photo of Hathras protests The Central Bureau of Investigation team probing the Hathras case on Wednesday re-summoned the victim’s father and two brothers for questioning. A CBI team on Tuesday quizzed the family members of the 19-year-old Dalit … Read more
The Hathras victim’s fundamental right of decent cremation was infringed upon by authorities, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court said in its order issued after hearing on Monday. The body of a 19-year-old Dalit woman, who died after being allegedly gang-raped by four upper-caste men in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras, was cremated at around 2.45 … Read more
New Delhi: Just four days before the alleged gang rape at Hathras, the Uttar Pradesh police chief had written to senior officers saying repeated incidents of sexual crimes and murder of the victims were making women feel unsafe and also spoiling the image of the state police. ET has accessed director general of police HC … Read more
A BJP MP from Chhattisgarh has stoked a controversy by reportedly referring to the alleged gangrape and death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras as a “banavat” (fake) incident, drawing flak from the ruling Congress. “If there will a CBI investigation (into Dhanora case), similar incidents will be unearthed in every four to five … Read more