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  • Body of 15-year-old tribal girl found hanging from tree in Jharkhand’s Dumka

    By PTI

    DUMKA: A 15-year-old tribal girl was found hanging from a tree in Jharkhand’s Dumka district, a senior police officer said on Thursday.

    Superintendent of Police, Ambar Lakra said a teenage girl was found hanging from a tree in Patnia village of Dumka’s Kathikund block, about 250 km from state capital Ranchi, on Wednesday.

    The SP said an FIR was registered on the statement of the girl’s father who said that his daughter was murdered and hanged to give it the shape of suicide. Lakra said the girl was a class 10 student.

    She along with her younger sister and brother was living with her grandmother.

    In the FIR, the girl’s father said he came to know that his daughter was having an affair with a 22-year-old man and used to chat with him over the phone.

    The father said when he contacted the man to enquire about his daughter, the man said she must be somewhere around Kathikund and asked them to find her there. The body was found hanging in Kathikund block.

    The girl’s family members alleged that the man killed her and hanged her body.

    Police recovered the body of the girl and sent it to Phulo Jhano Medical College and Hospital for post-mortem, the officer said, adding that the man has also been arrested.

    DUMKA: A 15-year-old tribal girl was found hanging from a tree in Jharkhand’s Dumka district, a senior police officer said on Thursday.

    Superintendent of Police, Ambar Lakra said a teenage girl was found hanging from a tree in Patnia village of Dumka’s Kathikund block, about 250 km from state capital Ranchi, on Wednesday.

    The SP said an FIR was registered on the statement of the girl’s father who said that his daughter was murdered and hanged to give it the shape of suicide. Lakra said the girl was a class 10 student.

    She along with her younger sister and brother was living with her grandmother.

    In the FIR, the girl’s father said he came to know that his daughter was having an affair with a 22-year-old man and used to chat with him over the phone.

    The father said when he contacted the man to enquire about his daughter, the man said she must be somewhere around Kathikund and asked them to find her there. The body was found hanging in Kathikund block.

    The girl’s family members alleged that the man killed her and hanged her body.

    Police recovered the body of the girl and sent it to Phulo Jhano Medical College and Hospital for post-mortem, the officer said, adding that the man has also been arrested.

  • Woman raped in moving car in UP’s Sultanpur

    By PTI

    SULTANPUR: An engineering student was allegedly raped in a moving car and thrown near a canal here in Jaisinghpur area, police said on Sunday.

    The incident had taken place Friday evening when a 23-year-old BTech student flagged an SUV for lift to go back home, they said.

    The driver allegedly raped her inside the car, threw her near a canal, and fled. The girl later told her family members about the incident when she reached her home.

    Circle officer, Jaisinghpur, Prashant Singh said that they have got a complaint and a probe is on in the matter and FIR will be registered after prima facie investigation.

    SULTANPUR: An engineering student was allegedly raped in a moving car and thrown near a canal here in Jaisinghpur area, police said on Sunday.

    The incident had taken place Friday evening when a 23-year-old BTech student flagged an SUV for lift to go back home, they said.

    The driver allegedly raped her inside the car, threw her near a canal, and fled. The girl later told her family members about the incident when she reached her home.

    Circle officer, Jaisinghpur, Prashant Singh said that they have got a complaint and a probe is on in the matter and FIR will be registered after prima facie investigation.

  • MP: Woman immolates self at police station after cops fail to act on rape complaint 

    By PTI

    SHAHDOL (MP): A 26-year-old woman sustained severe burns, as she immolated herself on the premises of a police station after the police allegedly failed to register a case based on her complaint of rape in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol, an official said on Sunday.

    While the woman is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Jabalpur, two policemen have been line-attached (removed from the field duties) for dereliction of duty for the incident that took place in Amlai police station on Friday, the official said.

    Amlai police station in-charge Mohammed Sameer and sub-inspector Savitri Singh have been line-attached for dereliction of duty, Superintendent of Police (SP) Kumar Pratik said.

    Following the incident, a case of rape has been registered against revenue official Brij Bahadur based on the woman’s complaint and he has been arrested, he said.

    According to the police, the woman had lodged a complaint on August 12 alleging that the accused had been in a relationship with the promise of marriage, but later refused to tie the knot.

    However, the FIR was not lodged on her complaint, they said.

    The woman later also complained on the CM Helpline, following which the police had called her and the accused to the police station on September 2 and she immolated herself on the premises the same day, they said.

    SHAHDOL (MP): A 26-year-old woman sustained severe burns, as she immolated herself on the premises of a police station after the police allegedly failed to register a case based on her complaint of rape in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol, an official said on Sunday.

    While the woman is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Jabalpur, two policemen have been line-attached (removed from the field duties) for dereliction of duty for the incident that took place in Amlai police station on Friday, the official said.

    Amlai police station in-charge Mohammed Sameer and sub-inspector Savitri Singh have been line-attached for dereliction of duty, Superintendent of Police (SP) Kumar Pratik said.

    Following the incident, a case of rape has been registered against revenue official Brij Bahadur based on the woman’s complaint and he has been arrested, he said.

    According to the police, the woman had lodged a complaint on August 12 alleging that the accused had been in a relationship with the promise of marriage, but later refused to tie the knot.

    However, the FIR was not lodged on her complaint, they said.

    The woman later also complained on the CM Helpline, following which the police had called her and the accused to the police station on September 2 and she immolated herself on the premises the same day, they said.

  • Twitter removes filmmaker Leena Manimekalai’s ‘Kaali’ poster tweet 

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Social media platform Twitter has pulled down filmmaker Leena Manimekalai’s tweet about her documentary “Kaali”, which is currently at the centre of a controversy, in response to “a legal demand”.

    In the said tweet posted on July 2, the Toronto-based director had shared the poster of “Kaali”, which depicted the titular goddess smoking and holding an LGBTQ flag.

    “This Tweet from @LeenaManimekali has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand,” read a message in place of the original post. It is unknown when the tweet was taken down by the microblogging site.

    On Tuesday, the Delhi Police and the Uttar Pradesh Police filed separate FIRs against Manimekalai over the controversial poster.

    Further, the Indian High Commission in Ottawa had urged the Canadian authorities to take down all “provocative material” related to the film after it received complaints from leaders of the Hindu community in Canada about the “disrespectful depiction” of Hindu gods.

    “Kaali” was showcased as part of the ‘Under the Tent’ project at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Under attack for the poster, Manimekalai had on Monday said she will continue to use her voice fearlessly till she is alive.

    “I have nothing to lose. Till the time I live, I wish to live with a voice that speaks what I believe without fear. If the price for that is my life, it can be given,” she wrote in a tweet in Tamil in response to an article on the controversy. The filmmaker also urged people to watch the documentary to understand the context behind the poster.

  • FIRs filed in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi against ‘Kaali’ filmmaker

    By ANI

    LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Police has lodged an FIR against director Leena Manimekalai for deliberately hurting religious sentiments by tweeting a poster of her new documentary film ‘Kaali’, where a woman dressed as the Goddess is shown smoking a cigarette.

    An FIR was registered on July 4 at Hazratganj Police Station on charges of criminal conspiracy, offence in the place of worship, deliberately hurting religious sentiments and intention to provoke breach of peace against the filmmaker.

    The FIR has been lodged under Sections, 120-B, 153-B, 295, 295-A, 298, 504, 505(1)(b), 505(2), 66 and 67 of Indian Penal Code (IPC). The Delhi Police IFSO unit has filed the FIR under IPC sections 153A and 295A.

    Earlier, a lawyer from Delhi, Vineet Jindal, registered a complaint against the filmmaker over the controversial poster, demanding a ban on the objectionable photo and the clip from the documentary showcased at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada.

    According to Jindal, a woman dressed as Goddess Kaali smoking a cigarette, is “hurting the sentiments and beliefs of the Hindu community.” Gau Mahasabha Member Ajay Gautam has also filed a complaint against Leena.

    The poster of the documentary, shared on social media by the Madurai-born filmmaker depicts a woman dressed in a costume portraying the goddess and smoking a cigarette. A flag of the LGBT community is seen in the background. There was an uproar on social media for hurting religious sentiments with the depiction of Goddess Kaali.

    ALSO READ | Director Leena Manimekalai courts controversy for Kaali film poster 

    After facing flak over her poster, Leena took to Twitter and defended herself and urged people to choose “love over hate.” Amid the negative feedback, she tweeted, “The film revolves around the events that take place one evening, when Kali appears and strolls the streets of Toronto. If you see the picture, don’t put the hashtag “arrest Leena manimekalai” and put the hashtag ‘love you Leena manimekalai.

    Meanwhile, Indian High Commission on Monday urged Canadian authorities to withdraw the disrespectful depiction of Hindu Gods showcased as part of the ‘Under the Tent’ project at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto.

    “We urge the Canadian authorities and the event organizers to withdraw all such provocative material,” read Indian High Commission in Canada press release.

  • Case against ex-SP MLA Rameshwar Yadav for illegal occupation of government land

    By PTI

    ETAH: A case was registered on Saturday against ex-Samajwadi Party MLA Rameshwar Yadav, who was arrested two days ago in another case, for alleged illegal occupation of government land, police said.

    He was arrested from Agra on Thursday night and sent to judicial custody by a court the next day. The arrest had come after an FIR was lodged against Rameshwar Yadav and his brother Jugendra Singh Yadav under the Gangster Act on April 18 for alleged land encroachment. The duo was absconding following the FIR.

    Another FIR has been lodged against the former SP MLA, his absconding brother Jugendra Singh Yadav, who is also the district panchayat chairman, and some others at the Jaithra police station, Additional Superintendent of Police Dhananjay Kushwaha said.

    The SP leaders have been accused of illegally occupying the government’s barren land and building a marriage hall and their houses on it, the police officer said.

    According to police, over 70 cases are lodged against Rameshwar Singh Yadav at various police stations of the district under serious charges, including an attempt to murder and voluntarily causing hurt.

  • We have ended illegal mining in state: Punjab minister Harjot Bains

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Mines and Geology Minister Harjot Singh Bains Saturday claimed his department has ended illegal sand mining in the state.

    He also said the daily extraction of sand and gravel in legal manner has crossed one lakh metric tonne.

    “We have ended illegal mining in Punjab through our hard work day and night. Being the mining minister, I can say illegal mining has ended in Punjab,” Bains said in a video message.

    “We have broken the back of illegal mining,” he claimed.

    He said the government is prompt on acting on cases of illegal mining, and an FIR is also lodged whenever a complaint is received.

    The menace of illegal sand mining was among key issues during the 2022 state assembly polls and the Aam Aadmi Party had targeted the previous government over the issue during the poll campaign.

    Bains said the daily average extraction of sand and gravel in last year was 35,000-40,000 metric tonne.

    “But we took it to over one lakh MT. Yesterday, 1,03,000 MT tonne extraction was done in Punjab,” he said.

    He further said that in May last year, only 8 lakh MT legal mining of sand and gravel was done.

    “But in May this year, we have already crossed 18.50 lakh MT of legal mining,” he said.

    The minister said that the legal mining of sand and gravel increased considerably despite the fact that only four out of the total seven blocks of mining were operational.

    However, shortly after Bains’s claims of ending illegal mining, Congress MLA Pargat Singh shared videos on his Twitter handle and claimed illegal mining was taking place at various places.

    “@harjotbains ji, Illegal mining continues at various places in Punjab. I am sharing another video of blatant mining in your own backyard in Taraf Mazri, Anandpur Sahib. I request you to please take care of your own area first before making tall claims and indulging in PR exercises,” Pargat tweeted.

    Bains replied, “2.5X increase in Legal Mining. That’s why i am saying kindly check the data of yours term & ours. Have summoned report of this site, will share it. Our intentions are pure, it’s my mission to make it all clean, we have done a lot in two months, will do much more. I pledge it.”

  • Hate Speech: Chhattisgarh cops file a 50-page challan against Seer Kalicharan

    Express News Service

    RAIPUR: The Raipur police has finally filed a 50-page challan against the controversial Seer Kalicharan in the court of chief judicial magistrate (CGM), a police officer said on Wednesday.

    The police have been investigating the case against the religious guru who is in Raipur central jail for the last 91 days, for his alleged defamatory remarks against Mahatma Gandhi and admiring his assassin Nathuram Godse. The Hindu priest from Maharashtra also justified the act of killing Gandhi from the stage of Dharam Sansad organised in Chhattisgarh capital on December 26 last year.

    After an FIR was lodged against Kalicharan Maharaj in Raipur, the state police arrested him from a lodge in Khajuraho (MP).

    The Raipur police had slapped IPC Section 124-A (sedition), 153A (creating enmity between two groups), 295A (deliberate malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings), 505(1)(b) (cause, fear or alarm to the public) against the Seer.

  • FIR against BJP youth wing president after video shows him raising sword during protest in Mumbai 

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: The Mumbai Police have registered an FIR against former Mumbai BJP youth wing president Mohit Kamboj for allegedly wielding a sword during a protest and violation of COVID-19 norms, an official said on Thursday.

    A video surfaced on Wednesday purportedly showing Kamboj wielding a sword presented to him during a protest organised to hail the arrest of NCP leader and Maharashtra cabinet minister Nawab Malik by the ED in a money laundering case.

    Following Malik’s arrest, some BJP workers burst crackers outside the residence of Kamboj at Santa Cruz in western suburbs.

    After the video surfaced, a police team reached the spot to look into the matter.

    The police on Wednesday night registered an FIR against Kamboj under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, including 188 (disobeying the order of public servant), and provisions of the Arms Act and the Maharashtra Police Act, the official said.

  • FIR against ex-MP Nilesh Rane, others for obstructing public servant from discharging duty

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: Police have registered an FIR against former MP Nilesh Rane and others for gathering outside a court in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district, in violation of the COVID-19 norms, and allegedly obstructing a public servant from discharging his duty, an official said on Wednesday.

    Nilesh Rane, the son of Union minister Narayan Rane, and some other people on Tuesday assembled near the court, which had rejected the bail plea of his brother and state BJP MLA Nitesh Rane in a case, he said.

    An argument had allegedly taken place between Nilesh Rane and police near the court.

    Later, an FIR was registered on Tuesday evening at Oras police station against the former MP and others under IPC sections 186 (voluntarily obstructing any public servant in discharge of his functions), 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) and 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life), and the Disaster Management Act, the official said.

    Nitesh Rane is facing an attempt to murder case in Sindhudurg, where a court on Tuesday denied bail to the legislator, saying his application for relief was “premature and not maintainable”.

    The MLA later moved the Bombay High Court to seek bail and in his plea claimed he had been implicated and that this was a “classic case of political vendetta or rivalry at the behest of the ruling dispensation” against him and his father.

    The plea further alleged that people belonging to opposition parties in Maharashtra and holding public positions are being “victimised” by the state government (comprising the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress) by way of registration of false criminal cases.