KOLKATA: Supreme Court yesterday ordered an investigation into the gang rape of a 20-year-old woman from an eastern tribal region by 13 men on the orders of a village court, a case that has sparked protests demanding swift justice.
The woman, who is recovering in hospital, told police she was assaulted by the men on Monday night in the Birbhum district of West Bengal as punishment for violating rules of her tribe by having a relationship with a man from a different community.
The ruling by cuntry’s top court underscores the sensitivity of sexual violence issues following the fatal gang rape of a physiotherapist on a moving bus in Delhi in December 2012 - an attack that sparked nationwide demonstrations and political uproar.
AAP posts video of police brutality, three suspended
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) yesterday released a video showing policemen beating a man and pulling out his wallet. Three policemen have since been suspended. This comes just days after Kejriwal led a two-day protest against Delhi Police earlier this week.
The AAP posted the video online with a message that asked Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde whether action would be taken against the policemen caught on camera.
The party said the footage was shot by a “vigilante” near Delhi’s Red Fort on January 12. It shows two uniformed men beating a man with a stick, pulling out his wallet and taking money from it.
“Just after the video was uploaded, the police came into action and three cops were suspended,” Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said.
Aseemanand and 3 others charged in train blast case
Panchkula, Haryana: A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here yesterday framed charges against Hindu leader Swami Aseemanand and three others in the Samjhauta train blast case.
Following the framing of charges, Aseemanand and three others —Kamal Chand, Rajinder Chaudhary and Lokesh Sharma — will face trial for criminal conspiracy, murder, attempt to murder, sedition and other sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and various sections of the Explosive Substances Act, Railways Act, Damage to Public Property Act, and Prevention of Unlawful Activities Act. Aseemanand, a member of the right-wing Hindu group Abhinav Bharat, was arrested in the Makkah Masjid blast in Hyderabad in which 14 people were killed in 2007. A total of 68 people, a majority of them Pakistani nationals, lost their lives in the Samjhauta blast.IANS
