Tag: harassment

Dozens of Indian-origin academics, journalists and others say they have been denied the right to visit India because of their criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Hindu nationalist government. While not denying the actions, the Modi government says the people in question had their visa privileges ...

Srinagar, Feb 14: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has sought an action taken report from the administration of Jammu and Kashmir pertaining to the matter of alleged harassment of a six-year-old child by a private school of Srinagar. In this regard the commission has issued ...

Srinagar: A local court has convicted a professor of Sher-i-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) and sentenced him to one-year rigorous imprisonment for sexual harassment of a student in 2022.The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Sopore, Adil Mushtaq Bandey today sentenced Mushtaq Ahmad Dar, head division of Agriculture ...

Mumbai: Mere taunting does not amount to harassment or mental cruelty, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court observed on Tuesday while acquitting three persons for harassing a woman and abetting her suicide.A single bench of Justice Abhay Waghwase quashed a 2001 order passed by a sessions court ...

New Delhi: Observing that sexual harassment in any form at workplace must be viewed seriously, the Supreme Court has quashed a Gauhati High Court verdict setting aside an order of penalty of withholding of 50 per cent pension of a former employee of the Service Selection Board in a ...

Another controversy erupted in the ongoing ICC World Cup 2023 as a Bangladesh fan faced harassment inside the MCA stadium in Pune during Match 17 on Thursday.Shoaib Ali, who is a die-hard fan of the Bangladesh cricket team, was at the receiving end of the Indian spectators who tore ...

Twenty-two-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini was arrested and forced into a van by Iran’s so called “morality police” in the capital Tehran on 13 September last year. Authorities alleged she was not in conformity with the country’s strict laws on mandatory veiling.She died on 16 September reportedly after suffering a ...

Says She Wanted To ‘Wreak Vengeance’ New Delhi: The Supreme Court has quashed a dowry harassment case filed by a woman against her in-laws, saying she “clearly wanted to wreak vengeance” and allowing criminal proceedings to continue would result in patent injustice.A three-judge bench of justices Aniruddha Bose, Sanjay ...

Opposition leaders in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday demanded an investigation after a Dalit government officer alleged that he was being harassed by the Union Territory administration for flagging irregularities in a drinking water scheme.Ashok Parmar, an Indian Administrative Services officer of the principal secretary rank, has been transferred ...

NEW DELHI, Aug 16: Words like eve-teasing, prostitute, and housewife may soon be out of the legal lexicon and will be replaced by terms like street sexual harassment, sex worker and homemaker. The Supreme Court on Wednesday launched a handbook that contains a glossary of gender unjust terms and ...