-The Indian Express As per a statement by Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi, this year, till August 19, the UP Police had invoked the NSA against 139 people in the state, 76 of them for cow slaughter. As on August 31, the Bareilly police zone alone accounted for 44 of the cases. Lucknow: THE National Security Act (NSA) was invoked against a man accused of being involved in cow slaughter...
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Delhi HC grants bail to Pinjra Tod member Devangana Kalita
-The Hindu/ PTI The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted bail to a member of Pinjra Tod, a women’s collective, in a case related to the communal violence in northeast Delhi during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in February. Justice Suresh Kumar Kait gave the relief to JNU student Devangana Kalita on furnishing of a personal bond of ₹25,000 and a surety of the like amount. The court directed that she shall...
More »Implement Verma report on crimes against women: plea
-The Hindu Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on the petition by a law student The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to respond to a plea filed by a law student seeking the implementation of the Justice J.S. Verma Committee report on crime against women and children. The court issued notices to the government on a plea by B. Srinivas Goud, represented by advocates Ramaswami Balaji and Shravan Kumar, for...
More »With 4,322 rape cases reported in 2018, 12 rapes take place daily in UP
-Caravandaily.com/ ANI LUCKNOW – With the high crime rates, 12 rape cases were reported everyday in Uttar Pradesh recording 4,322 incidents in 2018. According to the annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a case of rape is registered with the Uttar Pradesh police every two hours while crime against a child is reported every 90 minutes in the state. The state also recorded 59,445 crimes against women with 162 being...
More »Crime records of 2018 show 98.4% of rapes in Kerala were by men who knew the victims
-TheNewsMinute.com Among the 1972 victims of sexual assault in Kerala in 2018, 1156 are minors, below the age of 18. The total number of crimes against women recorded in Kerala in 2018 is 10461, which is 496 less than the statistics in 2017 but 427 more than in 2016. The data, released by the National Crime Records Bureau, says that Kerala accords for 2.8 per cent of the total number of crimes...
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