Girls of a government-funded shelter home in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur have alleged that one of their fellow inmates was beaten to death and buried at the premises of the facility, and several others were raped.
Following the allegations, the Bihar Police launched a probe and dug up the grounds of the shelter home, but did not find the body. “10 people have been arrested so far, we will soon file a charge-sheet against them. None of the girls have mentioned that they were ever taken outside the hostel,” Muzaffarpur SSP Harpreet Kaur told PTI.
Meanwhile, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday attributed the lynching in Rajasthan’s Alwar to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “brutal New India”. Also, in an early morning fire in a residential building in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi, five people were killed and several remain trapped.
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RSS ideologue Rakesh Sinha, who was recently nominated to Rajya Sabha by the President, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday. READ MORE
A self-proclaimed godman has been arrested in Maharashtra’s Parbhani district for allegedly making his male followers engage in unnatural sexual acts with each other by claiming to possess divine powers. Police got a whiff of the situation after a complaint was lodged on Friday by a few locals who claimed that video clips of the godman, Asif Noori, forcing followers into unnatural sex were being circulated on social media. READ MORE
Expressing concerns over the growing number of mob violence incidents in the country, the Ministry of Home Affairs on Monday said the government has constituted a four-member committee, headed by Union Home Secretary, to suggest laws against lynching and mob violence. READ MORE
Ratcheting up tensions with its ally BJP, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday said in the name of protecting the cow, India had become the most unsafe country for women. He also launched a stinging attack on the government over incidents of mob lynching across the country. READ MORE
Girls of a government-funded shelter home in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur have alleged that one of their fellow inmates was beaten to death and buried at the premises of the facility, and several were raped. READ MORE Bihar Police has launched a probe and dug up the grounds of the shelter home, but are yet to find the body.
Police have arrested 12 villagers who mistook a mentally unstable woman for being a child lifter and allegedly beat her to death late on Thursday in Badgad village in Singrauli district. READ MORE
Admitting there was a delay in taking Alwar lynch victim Akbar to a community health centre, the Rajasthan Police on Monday said a team of officers will present a detailed report after probing the incident. Akbar was lynched by villagers in Lalawandi on suspicion of smuggling cows on Friday. READ MORE
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Monday blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “brutal New India” for the recent lynching in Alwar in Rajasthan. Criticising the delay by policemen in taking the victim to hospital, Gandhi said, “This is Modi’s brutal “New India” where humanity is replaced with hatred and people are crushed and left to die.” READ MORE
Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who suffers from heart and kidney problems, has fallen ill, and a medical team has recommended his shifting to a hospital from a Rawalpindi jail where he is serving time in a graft case, Dawn has reported.
A jail administration official told Dawn that the medical team, led by retired General Azhar Kiani, visited Adiala jail and after medical check-up said Sharif needed to be hospitalised for immediate treatment. READ MORE
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Five people were killed in a fire that broke out at a residential building in Mandi’s Ner Chowk area in Himachal Pradesh on Monday, ANI reported. District’s Additional Magistrate Rajiv Kumar told news agency ANI that an LPG cylinder explosion is suspected to have triggered the fire and many residents are feared to be trapped inside the building. Three fire tenders have been dispatched to the spot and rescue operations are underway.
The BJP on Sunday took a dig at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, saying that it was actually the “Congress non-working committee” meeting held under its “non-performing president”. READ MORE
Addressing an extended meeting of the Congress Working Committee, Rahul asked party leaders not to lose sight of the bigger fight with the BJP and cautioned them against giving comments which can dent the party’s image and hurt its fight against the BJP.
“Let’s not be guided by a failed Prime Minister and a failed government, which has nothing to offer, except for the poisonous, venomous, divide and rule policy. And that’s why he (Gandhi) spoke about the gravitas of the language and conduct expected by the people of this country of Congress leaders and (said) they should adhere to it,” Randip Surjewala said, quoting Rahul. READ MORE
After a meeting of the extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) chaired by Rahul, the first after he took over as president eight months ago, the Congress said he was “setting up a group” to look into the alliance question. Attended by 239 leaders, the CWC brainstormed for nearly five hours to bring clarity on its “mission 2019” strategy and the political situation — as many as 35 leaders spoke. READ MORE