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  • JD(S) MLA HD Revanna Gets Interim Bail In Sexual Harassment Case |

    New Delhi: Janata Dal (Secular)  MLA and former Karnataka Minister HD Revanna was granted an interim bail from Bengaluru court in connection with a sexual harassment case.

    Bengaluru court granted bail till Friday, shortly after obtaining conditional bail in connection with a Kidnapping case related to the ‘obscene video’ case. JD(S) leader HD Revanna filed a bail petition in a sexual harassment case on Thursday.

    The 42nd Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court (ACMM) granted interim bail and said that the main bail plea will be heard on Friday at 3 pm. While the Special Investigation Team (SIT) contented that JD(S) MLA’s bail plea should be dismissed. 

    SP Jayna Kothari requested the judicial custody of the accused, JD(S) MLA Revanna, in the case. As per ANI, Revanna’s advocate Arun, said, “This is a bailable case.”

  • Ex-Jharkhand CM Marandi’s political advisor arrested for sexually harassing his 18-year-old domestic help

    Express News Service

    RANCHI: The police have finally arrested Sunil Tiwari, the political advisor of former Jharkhand chief minister and BJP legislative leader Babulal Marandi, for sexually harassing an 18-year-old tribal girl who was working as a domestic help in his house. 

    The arrest warrant was issued against Tiwari after the girl from Khunti filed an FIR at the Argora police station. In the FIR, she has alleged that he forced her into having physical relations with him and threatened to kill her if she discloses anything about these incidents. 

    The girl has also recorded her statement before the court under Section 164 after undergoing medical tests. She shared her ordeal with her parents a few days ago following which they decided to file an FIR. 

    Tiwari had moved a petition seeking anticipatory bail in the high court after a lower court cancelled it. However, before the court could make a decision on it, the police had already arrested him. 

    Even as the police are tightlipped on the incident, some sources have informed that the former political advisor was arrested from Etawah in Uttar Pradesh. 

    Meanwhile, the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes has issued a notice to Jharkhand DGP and Senior Superintendent of Police, Ranchi, after the girl’s father filed a complaint alleging that the police took his daughter away and presented her before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) without mentioning any reason.

    He further stated that the police also took away his family members from their house on Independence Day without informing him about their whereabouts. The girl was later produced before the CWC on August 16. It was claimed that she had been staying at the residence of Tiwari for an “unusually long time” despite not being a family member. 

  • Arrest warrant against former Jharkhand CM’s advisor Sunil Tiwary in sexual harassment case

    By Express News Service

    RANCHI: A Ranchi Court has issued an arrest warrant Sunil Tiwari — political advisor of former Jharkhand Chief Minister and BJP legislative party leader Babulal Marandi — for sexually harassing an 18-year-old tribal girl. Tiwari is likely to be arrested at any point in time as the arrest warrant has already been received by the investigating officer.

    The girl in her FIR alleged that Tiwari forced her into having physical relations with him and threatened to kill her if anyone learned about this. She has also recorded her statement before the court under Section 164 after undergoing medical tests.

    The girl, according to police, shared the ordeal with her parents a few days ago following which they decided to file FIR in this regard.

    Meanwhile, The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes has issued a notice to Jharkhand DGP and Senior Superintendent of Police, Ranchi, after the father of the girl filed a complaint alleging that the police took his daughter away and presented her before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) without mentioning any reason.

    The girl’s father alleged the police took his family members away from their house on Independence Day without informing him about their whereabouts. The girl was later produced before the CWC on August 16. It was claimed she had been staying at the residence of Tiwari for an “unusually long time” despite not being a family member.

    Marandi, when asked, alleged the FIR was filed against Tiwary after the latter knocked on the door of the apex court demanding a direction to the Mumbai High Court to hear the matter related to allegations of sexual exploitation against the Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren.

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  • TTE suspended for harassing woman passenger at Bareilly railway station

    By PTI
    BAREILLY: A ticket examiner was suspended for alleged sexual harassment of a 23-year-old woman at Bareilly Junction railway station, police said on Tuesday.

    The woman told police that the incident occurred on a platform at the station on Monday when she was waiting for the Shramjivi COVID-19 special train to travel to Lucknow.

    In the FIR lodged at Government Railway Police (GRP) station in Lucknow’s Charbagh, the woman said she had reached the station ahead of time and TTE Ravi Meena behaved badly with her. He caught her hand, made obscene gestures and asked her to follow him, she alleged.

    The TTE held her hand tightly “several times” and when she complained to the women personnel, Meena pushed her, she added in the FIR.

    After boarding the train, she called the helpline number and then lodged the police complaint after reaching Lucknow Charbagh railway station.

    Senior Divisional Commercial Manager Rekha Sharma suspended the TTE after taking note of the incident and the probe was transferred to Bareilly police. 

  • #MeToo movement: Journalist Priya Ramani acquitted in criminal defamation case by MJ Akbar

    Express News Service
    NEW DELHI: Stressing that women cannot be punished for raising their voice against sexual ­abuse, a Delhi court on Wednesday acquitted journalist Priya Ramani in a defamation suit filed by former Union minister M J Akbar contesting her allegations of sexual harassment by him in the past. 

    Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey said, “The right of reputation cannot be protected at the cost of the right of life and dignity of woman as guaranteed in Indian Constitution under Article 21 and right of equality before law and equal protection of law as guaranteed under Article 14 of the Constitution.”  

    The court accepted Ramani’s  contention that Akbar wasn’t a man of stellar reputation. In its 91-page verdict, the court said, “It cannot be ignored that most of the time, the offence of sexual­ harassment and sexual abuse (was) committed in the close doors or privately. Sometimes the victims herself does not understand what is happening to them or what is happening to them is wrong. Despite how well respected some persons are in the society, they in their personal lives, could show extreme cruelty to females.”   

    The court took note of the systematic abuse at the workplace due to lack of grievance redressal mechanisms at the time Priya Ramani and witness Ghazala Wahab were allegedly sexually harassed. “Time has come for society to understand sexual abuse and harassment and its implications on the victim,” the court said, adding most women do not speak about it because of social stigma.  

    “This judgment is a validation of the stand taken by us and all women during the #Metoo campaign,” Ramani’s lawyer Rebecca John later said. Ramani had in 2018 made allegations of sexual harassment against Akbar in wake of the #MeToo movement.