-PTI The country has just 5.33 per cent women in Police forces despite growing demands for more representation in law enforcement agencies. According to Home Ministry statistics, out of 15,85,117 personnel working in state Police forces, only 84,479 or just 5.33 per cent are women. Besides, there are just 499 all-women Police stations in the country out of a total 15,000 stations. The demand for more women in Police forces has been growing since...
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-Outlook The UPA government seems too keen on giving the press council what Katju seeks Powerful Enough? Among the powers the PCI now wields are the following: Power to censure, warn and admonish on receipt of a complaint, after giving the publication a chance to be heard The same powers as a civil court to summon and enforce attendance, examine persons under oath ...
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-PTI BETUL: The Police have registered a report against 16 people for being part of a tribal panchayat which punished a girl recently for allegedly eloping, by cutting off her hair in public. The tribal panchayat at Chikhlar village situated about five kilometres away from Betul district headquarters also punished the girl's uncle for allegedly eloping with her, by making him run around with a garland of shoes and a grinding stone...
More »Stressed out cops battle range of disorders-S Vijay Kumar
-The Hindu Health problems apart, they have little time for family "My father comes home very late. He never attends school-day functions or parent-teacher meetings. There has hardly been a weekend when he took us out..." This is how children of Police personnel responded at a family counselling session, organised by the Madurai district Police recently. Many children complained that their parents working in the Police department were stressed out most of the...
More »Raghunath Mohanty, former Odisha law minister, arrested in dowry torture case
-PTI BHUBANESWAR: Former Odisha minister Raghunath Mohanty and his wife were arrested from neighbouring West Bengal in a dowry torture case slapped by their daughter-in-law, Police said on Saturday. "Mohanty and his wife Pritilata Mohanty were arrested from a place in Howrah district of West Bengal by a team of human rights protection cell of Odisha Police," highly placed Police sources said here. Acting on a specific information, a "crack" team of HRPC...
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