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Victim of Domestic Violence, Woman Battling For Life In Kupwara

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KUPWARA, May 9: A woman suffered a severe hand injury and is undergoing treatment at a hospital after she was allegedly beaten up by her husband and in-laws in north Kashmir’s Kupwara village on Tuesday.
Sources told that a woman (name withheld) was beaten ruthlessly by her husband and in-laws over some family issues at Teliwanipora Lalpora Kupwara.
“She suffered a critical hand injury and is now undergoing surgery at a local hospital in the district,” sources close to the family told .
Sources further added that this is not the first time she has been a victim of domestic violence by her in-laws; she has been harassed many times by her husband and in-laws ever since their marriage.
“Today they tried to kill her, for want of dowry. They have always harassed her trying to take away jwellery from her on one or the other reasons,” sources added.
Talking to local english daily Kashmir Despatch, Senior Superintendent of Police Kupwara Youghal Manhas said cognizance has already been taken into this case and the accused has been arrested.
SHO Lalpora Nisar Ahmad said that a case has been registered under relevant sections of law and the accused has been arrested. He said the police have initiated a further investigation into this case. The officer further stated that he had also visited the victim and listened to her version, and assured that, as per law, strict action would be taken against the accused family. (KD)
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

May 9, 2023
Delhi: Hit-and-run leaves one dead as car drives for 3 km with victim on roof

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New Delhi: A youth was killed and his cousin seriously injured in a hit-and-run case in Delhi’s high-security VIP zone.
The incident, which was captured on video by a witness, took place at the intersection of New Delhi’s Kasturba Gandhi Marg and Tolstoy Marg on Saturday night.
The deceased was identified as Deepanshu Verma (30) while his cousin Mukul is undergoing treatment at a hospital where his condition is stated to be critical.

Verma, who was a jewellery shop owner, is survived by his parents and a sister.
According to the witness, a car rammed into a bike and due to the impact of the collision, Mukul got thrown several feet away, while Verma landed on the car’s roof.
Shockingly, the car driver did not stop to assess the situation but sped away with the injured man still on the roof.
The man even followed the fleeing car on his scooter while recording the incident. Despite honking and shouting, the car did not stop. After driving for about 3 kilometres, the suspects dumped the injured man off the car near Delhi Gate and fled.
Verma and Mukul were rushed to hospital where Verma succumbed to his injuries.

The Delhi Police have registered a case of murder and arrested the suspects. However, the police are yet to reveal their names.
More details are awaited.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 3, 2023
Rape case can’t be quashed just because victim agrees for it, says HC on FIR against Bhushan Kumar

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Mumbai: A case of rape cannot be quashed merely because the victim granted her consent to do so, the Bombay High Court said on Wednesday while expressing its disinclination to quash an FIR of rape registered against T-Series owner Bhushan Kumar.
Kumar had filed the petition seeking for the FIR to be quashed on the ground that the victim took back her complaint and consented for the same to be set aside.
A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and P D Naik, however, noted that merely because the complainant was granting her consent was not ground enough to quash the first information report (FIR) alleging rape.

“Merely because the parties are consenting does not mean an FIR under section 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code should be quashed. We have to see the contents of the FIR, the statements recorded to see if the crime was heinous or not. The relationship (in this case) from the contents does not seem consensual,” the court said.
Kumar’s advocate Niranjan Mundargi told the court that the FIR was registered in July 2021 for an incident that was allegedly happening since 2017.
He said that a B-summary report (false case or no case made out against the accused) had been filed by the police before the concerned magistrate’s court.
A local politician Mallikarjun Pujari filed a protest petition against such B-summary, claiming he had helped the woman register the FIR, however the woman had granted her consent to close the proceedings.
The magistrate’s court rejected the police’s report in April 2022.

The high court on Wednesday perused the FIR, the affidavit submitted by the complainant woman giving her consent for the case to be quashed and the order passed by the magistrate’s court.
The bench was of the opinion that the material did not reflect that the relationship between the accused and the woman was consensual.
“Contents of the consent affidavit are not sufficient to quash FIR. Generally under section 376, FIR can be quashed with the consent of the complainant. But then that is after the FIR or the affidavit shows that there was a consensual relationship. Here the complainant is only saying she doesn’t want to proceed with the case due to ‘circumstantial misunderstanding’,” the court said.
When the bench expressed its disinclination to allow the petition and quash the case, Mundargi sought time to submit further material in support of the plea.
The bench then posted the matter for further hearing on July 2, 2023.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 26, 2023
Kashmir University lost its glory to womanizers and exploiters: Victim Scholar

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Srinagar April 16: A PhD scholar who accused Kashmir University of obstructing the action against its faculty member accused of sexual harassment has appealed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinah, Chief Justice JK Vinod Chatterji Koul and Director General of Police Dilbagh Singh to intervene and initiate an independent inquiry in the matter.
The press release issued by University of Kashmir on Friday regarding the sexual harassment case is misinformed, concocted and one more step to conceal the biased attitude of University besides protecting Tareek Rather accused of sexual harassment said the victim scholar in a detailed press statement to Srinagar based news agency Kashmir Dot Com, while appealing government to constitute an independent inquiry in the matter to extract the truth.
She said the University’s claims of fair and prompt investigation is punctured by its Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) recommendation report itself which says that ‘the timely intervention in the instant case has not been made despite the matter being grave, resulting in the scholar facing mental and agony’.
The ICC recommendation report has not only mentioned the delay in PhD submission but has observed the contradiction of statements on part of accused Prof Tareek Rather, which amounts to punishment under the ICC norms but the university obstructs the action as claimed earlier, it said.
“Going soft against the accused (Tareek Rather) the Internal Complaints Committee the ICC strongly directed him to strictly adhere to the gender sensitive behavior while dealing with female scholars instead of directly recommending punishment as per ICC norms” Victim alleged in a statement.
The victim states that her ordeal starts from the year 2017 when the accused professor Tareek Rather who was then her supervisor tried to assault her out of lust within the office chamber after he called her for discussing research work. “
The accused professor called me to chamber in pretext of discussing research, after entering the chamber he resorted to an inappropriate action which I reported to then (2017) chairman CCAS immediately who persuaded me to be cautious and approached the accused professor.”
“Where from I get the evidence when the incident occurred in closed door, even so some faculty members stood with the truth but university authorities ignored their version during the inquiry but emphasized the version of witness who either were subordinates to accused or were in his close camaraderie.”

“As I felt that I am being target out of reprisal after filing a criminal complaint against accused Prof. Tareek Rather, I approached all the stakeholders including National Women’s Commission, Education Ministry New Delhi, UGC and LG’s office who sought details from university about the case even NCW asked for time bound action but the university administration always tried to dismiss my situation in one or the other way to save the culprit.”
A sexual harassment victim (PhD scholar) further in her statement, reported by news agency Kashmir Dot Com said that it took university six months to follow the directions of National Women’s Commission which send off a letter bearing number D.O.No/8/C210026336/2012/NCW/RS/RR Dated12/11/2021 to Kashmir University ask over to conduct time bound inquiry however university ignored the letter till the lapse of over six months.
“A co-supervisor was assigned the job of evaluating my Phd thesis. The harassment issue was covered up by the Departmental Research Committee (DRC) composed of accused professor’s subordinates who persuaded me to remain silent (recording of conversation in hand)”.
“Later, my complaint was mishandled by the members of the DRC Committee. In furtherance, I was put under Co-supervisor to complete my thesis with the conditions that the accused supervisor will only sign the thesis. However, to my surprise, my thesis was further put before the accused supervisor who behaved inappropriately with me and intentionally refused to sign my thesis, even delayed the thesis submission in a tactful manner to set the score.”
“I approached NWC only after the accused professor continued his harmful dictations besides university authorities’ assigned co-supervisor, the accused professor didn’t sign any document and even wasted eight months of my precious time in reprisal to my complaints(NCW Letter attached Annexure A). ”The NCW directed university administration to initiate time bound action with an action taken report”, she said.
She said the university instead of handing over the case to ICC fritter away time till I approached LG’s office and have one to one meetings with the then Vice Chancellor Prof Talat Ahmed in the year 2020 and 2021 but of no avail.
“Surprisingly, There was no active Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) when I submitted my complaint. Even then I individually mailed my complaint to the members whose names including present Vice Chancellor stands were uploaded then on the university website.”
The university authorities discreetly obstructed the action by constituting a “friendly” Women’s Empowerment and Grievance Committee (WE&GC) having most of the members either close acquaintances or subordinates to the accused Tareek Rather or indirectly related to him as soon as I felt their prejudice and biased attitude I reported to NWC and Vice Chancellors office through a proper communication but the VC office instead of acting university turn deaf ears to my plea in order to make safe exit for accused professor”.
“Besides ,the WE&GC constituted by the university after 4 months of lapse following the National Women’s Commission’s directions manipulated the case by calling all the subordinates and nears of the accused professor, which goes against the ICC and Vishakha norms”
“The university authorities neither prompted nor facilitated my PhD degree till I approached Education Ministry New Delhi, UGC and Honorable Lieutenant Governor .The completion of PhD degree and sexual harassment are two separates subjects which needs not to be intermingled.” So far as the filing of complaint is concerned, I immediately approached the Chairman Central Asian Studies in the year 2016(ending) when I was harassed by the accused Professor , the chairman assured me of action, later I came to know that the accused professor had denied the directions of the chairman.
“there was no gap of three years as reported in university PR but the case was reported before chairman CCAS as per norms and when I found University administration hand in glove with the accused I preferred my studies and later started seeking justices from the year 2018.”
“Noticing that the accused professor was hell-bent on ruining my career on reprisal of the complaint I concentrated on my PHD thesis and completed it by the year 2018 and approached the accused professor he refused to check my chapters.”
“Later I approached Then VC Prof Talat Ahmed for change of supervisor who issued direction for change of supervisor but Dean Social Sciences vide his communication No: DSS/Misc/Nurgiss-CCAS/KU/20/DFSS/167 Dated: 07-10-220 assigned a co-supervisor”
“Regarding ICC, I was not provided any fair opportunity instead few members who were and still are close acquaintances of the Accused professor posed irrelevant questions during the ICC meet, even though I filed the complaint in light of the Section 468 (2) Code of Criminal Procedure Which falls within the ambit of clause (i) , clause (ii) , clause (iii) and clause (iv) of 354 (A) and pleaded ICC and honorable VC that the Evidence Act of 1872 should be followed in relation to the prevention of Sexual Harassment Act, 2013. The whole scene was reported to VC on 14/05/2022 and later on 25-05-2022 vide communication number KU2022-VCOF-12549 dated 25/05/2022 but of no avail.”
“Neither ICC nor VC office pay heed to my requests when I found that ICC rules were violated during the inquiry”, said victim, adding “feeling skepticism about the ICC inquiry I requested NCW and VC to remove few members of the ICC on 20 May 2022 but my pleas fell to deaf ears.”
“The Women’s Empowerment and Grievance Committee (WE&GC) expressed failure stating that it is difficult to ascertain charges in absence of evidence (No:F(complaint)Res/KU/22/dated March 31,2022) but surprisingly the ICC having majority of members of same WE&GC concluded that ‘the complaint is a matter of animosity because of non-compatibility between scholar and supervisor.”
“The dubious and confusing conclusion on part of ICC is nothing but predetermined phenomenon to save the accused professor”, “The University has mentioned the non-compatibility without finding its causes; even they didn’t follow the ICC norms or prevention of Sexual Harassment Act, 2013 which I request in my complaint. The thesis was only sent for evaluation when the university administration received umpteenth directions from the LG’s office (communication in my possession), she alleged.
“Before submitting the thesis it was sent to three experts later when I submitted in May 2022 it was kept in hold till September 2022, the university only moved when I approached honorable LG who directed university authorities to ensure the submission it was after four year of struggle my thesis was sent for evaluation and degree was awarded in November 2022.”
The victim stated that she was harassed, threatened and even persuaded to withdraw the complaint during the course of inquiry.
“I was threatened, harassed even asked to withdraw the complaint (recordings in possession) but I refused and didn’t budge to the threats” adding “ I was told that one of a relative of the accused professor is a notorious IPS officer but continued my fight for the justice and I hope justice will prevail someday.”
“I have filed seven RTI applications to get the ICC recommendation report which I should have received immediately after inquiry was concluded by ICC but couldn’t get the same due to reasons best known to university administration.”
I am appealing to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinah, Justice Vinod Chatterji Koul and DGP Police Dil Bagh Singh IPS to intervene and initiate an independent inquiry in the matter.
“So keeping all this in view I can only say that the university is still trying to save the accused professor and the so-called reputation of the university which has lost its glory to womanizers and exploiters. The university administration is lying to the people and befooling government regarding the sexual harassment case against Tareek Rather-faculty member, the statement added. (KDC)
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

April 17, 2023
LG Offers Rs Four Lakh Ex-Gratia To Family Of Kargil Blast Victim

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SRINAGAR: Lieutenant governor of Ladakh BD Mishra on Sunday announced an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh to the next of kin of the boy who died after an unexploded shell went off in Kargil, while Rs 1 lakh each was announced for two injured boys.
Talking to reporters, LG Mishra, said that he was when he received this news as it is very unfortunate that a boy died in this incident and two others were injured.
He said that one of the injured boys is out of danger, while another one will undergo a surgery and hopefully he will also be out of danger.
“Meanwhile, I am announcing an ex-gratia relief of Rs 4 lakh to the relatives of the boy who died in the incident, while Rs 1 lakh each will be given to the injured,” he said.
Earlier, a boy died and two others were injured after an unexploded shell went off in Kargil today. (KNO)

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

April 16, 2023
Hyderabad is a victim of KCR family’s selfishness: Revanth Reddy

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Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee President Revanth Reddy said that Hyderabad city is a victim of Telangana Chief Minister KCR family’s selfishness.
While addressing the public at Gandhi Bhavan, he said, “KCR family will sacrifice the city of Hyderabad for its selfishness. The city of Hyderabad has been destroyed during the 9 years of BRS rule. Even Nizam did not create such destruction in the city of Hyderabad”.
“For a Rs 100 crore property KCR’s family had paid Rs 17 crores. There are special regulations for construction in Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills areas and also near KBR Park. Since these are elevated places, the airport authority’s permission should be taken for the construction so as not to obstruct the flights. Jubilee Hills and Banjara Hills have a special natural environment and they enforce special regulations for building constructions there.KBR Park is considered an Eco-Sensitive Zone. That is why there are very few commercial buildings in the vicinity of KBR Park. Only after KCR came to the construction around the park increased,” he added.

Revanth Reddy further alleged that where 5 storeys are not permitted in the KBR Park area permission was given for a 21-storey building.
“There was a heritage building belonging to the Nizam Nawabs near the BC Study Circle on the way to the Cancer Hospital from KBR Park. The building was bought by Kurra Srinivasa Rao’s firm KS&CS Developers. It is alleged that it was demolished against the rules. Our legislator Sampath Kumar said that when this issue was raised during the debate on the Municipal Act in the Assembly, KCR tried to suppress it. According to the previous rules, 1200 yards of this is a green belt. For the remaining 5800 yards, only 60 thousand square feet should be allowed,” he said.
In 2016, the owner KS&CS Developers applied for the construction of the building. Then the BRS leaders threatened and put pressure and 2704 yards of land was written in the name of Namaste Telangana MD and Chairman Damodar Rao. After the government came for the second time in 2019, Srinivasa Rao’s property was transferred. As a result, permission was given for 21 floors whereas per the old rules, no permission was given for a 5-storey building. How was permission given for 21 floors in 3 thousand yards of land?” he added.
He further mentioned that the construction of high-rise buildings near KBR Park will lead to a dangerous situation for the existence of peacocks in the region.
“If such permissions are given within 3 thousand yards, what is the environmental condition of the park? The 21-storey apartment will cause huge traffic problems near KBR Park. There is also a danger to the existence of the national bird peacocks and other birds in the KBR Park due to the gases coming out from the AC’s used by the people living in that building, and the environment may be damaged there,” he said.

TPCC chief Reddy also said that the word robbery falls flat in front of KCR’s robbery.
“I put a challenge before you. Not Rs 17 crores, if I give Rs 40 crores, will KCR give that land? Isn’t this proof that the lands were written off under threat? The word “robbery” falls flat before KCR’s robbery. A new word should be created in the dictionary for them,” he said.
Reddy further mentioned that BRS leaders have caused enough destruction in the city of Hyderabad.
“Minister KTR and his father will do this much destruction together? If people believe you and put the state in your hands, will you do this much destruction? Traffic in the city is due to issuing permits against the rules in the hope of commissions. Why do floods occur only with little rain? The D9 (Dawood 9) gang including KCR, KTR, Somesh Kumar, Arvind Kumar, Jayesh Ranjan, Venkatrami Reddy is causing so much destruction in Hyderabad city. There is no question of leaving anyone behind. This is the culmination of KCR’s wicked rule,” he said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 13, 2023
Opinion | Trump Seems to Be the Victim of a Witch Hunt. So What?

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The unusual charge from the Manhattan DA’s office that is apparently at issue has already prompted a broad consensus among conservative politicians and commentators that Trump is the victim of a political prosecution — a “witch hunt,” to use Trump’s preferred phrase. A Trump campaign email sent recently to supporters last week claimed that prosecutors in New York “chose their target first and have been hunting for a crime ever since.” Before the indictment came down, conservative legal commentator Andrew McCarthy, who is no fan of Trump as a political figure, argued that “it’s undeniable that no one who wasn’t Donald Trump would ever be charged for this.” Law professor Alan Dershowitz likewise said on Megyn Kelly’s show that “Nobody in their right mind would believe that Bragg would be going after John Smith or even John Edwards on a case like this. It’s obviously an example of ‘Get Trump’” — the name of Dershowitz’s latest book, in case you missed the promotional tie-in — “and it’s so, so dangerous.”
The claim is likely to be a central part of Trump’s defense, both in the public and legal arenas, and it is not likely to go away anytime soon — particularly since there is good reason to believe that it’s true.
The investigation by the DA’s office was reportedly spurred by news of the payment to Daniels all the way back in 2018 under Bragg’s predecessor, Cy Vance. According to a Supreme Court filing during the office’s fight to get Trump’s tax returns, the office put its investigation on hold at the request of the Justice Department around the time of Cohen’s guilty plea to a variety of federal charges, including campaign finance violations related to the payment to Daniels. Prosecutors in Manhattan picked the investigation back up in the summer of 2019 after they learned that the federal investigation had been closed without further charges.
In the intervening years, the office obtained Trump’s tax returns, charged and convicted both Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg and the Trump Organization on narrow tax-related fraud charges, and pursued a broader criminal case against the former president based on the alleged manipulation of the value of his assets in submissions to lenders, insurers and government authorities. Last year, Bragg declined to approve an indictment on those grounds, concluding that the proposed case was not strong enough. That led the two prosecutors leading the effort at the time to resign, and one of them, a lawyer named Mark Pomerantz, proceeded to launch a highly unusual media campaign — one that resulted in a book and an appearance on 60 Minutes last month — assailing Bragg for refusing to charge Trump.
That book provided a very incomplete and misleading account of the strength of Pomerantz’s proposed case, but setting that aside, pretty much everything about it seemed designed to shore up Trump’s claim that he was the victim of a legal vendetta by the office. Pomerantz, who was tasked with leading the investigation, comes off as singularly obsessed with charging Trump with anything that he can come up with — no matter how obscure or bizarre the legal theory — and heavily motivated by his belief that Trump is a uniquely dangerous political figure who has done tremendous damage to the country. It is no surprise that Trump’s lawyers and congressional Republicans have become fond of citing the book in his defense.
After Pomerantz and his colleague’s resignation early last year, Bragg was assailed by many Democrats and legal commentators. He insisted that the investigation would continue, which it evidently did, but apparently the only viable case that the office felt comfortable bringing after all that was based on the payment to Daniels.
We are likely to hear a lot of clichés from the legal commentariat in the coming days — about how Bragg and his prosecutors are simply following the facts and the law, about how no one is above the law, and so on. That is all well and good, but the reality is that this particular criminal case probably never would have been brought for anyone but Trump. In fact, the investigation probably would not have begun in the first place for anyone else, but at the time, Trump was still in office, and given the Justice Department’s policy against indicting a sitting president, the Manhattan DA’s office was a convenient outlet and prosecutorial avenue for people who wanted to see Trump criminally prosecuted.
There is also no indication at the moment that the case against Trump has any real precedent in New York or elsewhere. Perhaps prosecutors will demonstrate that that is wrong as they defend the case in court, but thus far, no one seems to be able to identify a comparable case brought by a local prosecutor’s office.

Trump, of course, is not the first president or presidential candidate to engage in an extramarital affair. Democrat John Edwards was indicted by federal prosecutors in connection with a scheme to obtain nearly $1 million in funds from donors to conceal a mistress and child while he ran for president in 2008, but the Justice Department was unable to convict him. Former president Bill Clinton famously had an affair while in the White House, but as a matter of realpolitik, it is hard to believe that he would be criminally charged by a local prosecutor for that conduct even if he were to have done it recently.
It is worth being honest about all this — particularly as the public begins to grapple with the momentous development of Trump’s indictment — even though it does not mean that the case against Trump should be thrown out or is somehow invalid. It is possible that Bragg’s team closely scrutinized all of the evidence that had been gathered along with the available charges against Trump and concluded that they had just one viable case, albeit a sufficiently compelling one as a matter of law, based on the payments to Daniels.
There is nothing inherently wrong about that. Luck, both good and bad, plays an undeniable role in who gets the attention of prosecutors and who gets charged in the criminal justice system. I once had a foreign national who was a subject in one of my fraud investigations arrested because she happened to travel to the U.S. for a birthday party, and she was eventually indicted, convicted and sentenced to prison.
Sometimes an unusual case emerges out of nowhere for reasons that prosecutors could not have anticipated, and they have to deal with it the best way they can, even if the result is relatively modest and not as explosive a charge as the defendant’s detractors would want to see. Likewise, sometimes prosecutors conduct expansive, wide-ranging investigations, but when all is said and done, they are not able to establish the most damning allegations and instead are left with a relatively small case.
It is not particularly surprising that something like this would happen to Trump of all people — a man who has spent much of his adult life flirting with the line between lawful and unlawful conduct in ways that would be inconceivable to pretty much anyone else. He also does awful things fairly regularly, so he hardly deserved the benefit of the doubt when news of the payment to Daniels first became public, which also happened to come in the context of a swarm of allegations concerning Trump’s mistreatment of other women.
Trump and his defenders may claim that the indictment should be dismissed because he is the victim of selective or malicious prosecution, but at the moment, a legal argument along those lines appears likely to fail. The reason is that the law generally requires robust evidence that the defendant has been singled out for an improper reason and that other, similarly situated people have not been criminally charged for similar conduct. Perhaps we will come to find out that plenty of other New Yorkers have allegedly paid off women they slept with to keep quiet, and that they did so in the middle of a federal election, but that seems unlikely — and that, in turn, is likely to doom any effort by Trump to get the case tossed on those grounds.
Finally, it is worth bearing in mind that although Trump is an undoubtedly high-profile defendant, this is a relatively modest prosecution as a legal matter, exposing Trump — if the reporting to date has been accurate — to a maximum four-year term of imprisonment and, perhaps, no time at all even if he is convicted. That would be up to the sentencing judge, and we are a long way off from that scenario.
In the meantime, Trump is likely to try to make this process as inflammatory and painful as possible for the country, but there is no need for us to indulge his endless grievance-mongering or his self-serving account of the case against him.

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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

March 31, 2023
Mumbai Shocker: Cop forces rape victim to walk 2 km for medical test

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Mumbai: In a shocking incident, a Dalit woman lawyer – who had complained of rape, black magic practices and domestic violence by her in-laws and others – was allegedly made to walk around 2 km by a lady constable for her medical examination at a government hospital, her lawyer said here on Tuesday.
The victim had lodged complaint of rape against her NRI husband, a tantrik, her brothers-in-law and other relatives for allegedly subjecting her to repeated rape, torture and other forms of abuse since her marriage, said Advocate Nitin Satpute.
Even her complaint was registered by the Bhoiwada Police a few days ago, but only after making a lot of efforts, and she was scheduled for a medical examination at the KEM Hospital in Parel on Tuesday, he said.
“A lady constable asked her for the taxi fare, which the victim woman, a lawyer practising at the Bombay High Court, did not have. So the lady constable made her walk for 2 km from there to the BMC’s KEM Hospital for her medical,” Satpute said.
He wanted to know “where are the Nirbhaya vehicles for such rape victims”, and how could the accused be made to walk for the medical test while the accused are being taken around in police vehicles.
Satpute has brought the matter to the notice of the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone IV), Pravin Mundhe, and is awaiting the police response.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 28, 2023
Rajouri Attack: Victim Families Threaten To Return Government Aid, Jobs

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SRINAGAR: The residents of Dhangir village of Rajouri on Monday said they will return all government aid including ex-gratia relief and jobs as security forces have failed to track down attackers of January 01 militant attack.
Addressing a press conference, the victim families said that around 3 months have passed since the gruesome attack but there is no clue of attackers and security forces and government are only giving assurances.
“We want justice not financial aid or jobs. We just don’t need assurances but justice. We are ready for a long agitation and will return all the aid and jobs in protest,” said Saroj Bala, who is now alone in her family as she lost her both sons in the attack that day.
7 people lost their lives and 13 others were injured after militants resorted to indiscriminate firing in Dhangri village on January, while one more person died after an IED explosion took place in the area next day. (KNO)

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

March 27, 2023
‘Don’t interfere’: SC dismisses UP govt’s plea against job to kin of Hathras victim

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed Uttar Pradesh government’s plea against high court direction to consider giving a job to a family member of the victim in Hathras case and also the relocation of the family, saying “the state should not come up in such matters”.
A bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justices P.S. Narasimha and J.B. Pardiwala told Garima Prasad, additional advocate general (AAG) of Uttar Pradesh, “State should not come up in such matters… Prasad submitted that the state government is ready to relocate the family but they wanted a job either in Noida or Delhi.”
She further added that whether the elder married brother of the victim could be regarded as a ‘dependent’, was a question of law to be considered.
Declining to entertain the state government’s plea, the Chief Justice said, “these are facilities provided to the family. We should not interfere. State should not come up in these matters…”
After the order was pronounced, the AAG urged the apex court to keep the question of law open, the bench said that the order has specified that it is passed in the special facts and circumstances of the case.
In July last year, the high court passed directions in a matter connected with Hathras case, where a 19-year-old Dalit woman was alleged to have been raped and murdered in September 2020 in Hathras.
The high court said the state authorities must abide by the promise, which was made to the family in September 2020, to give employment to one member and also directed the authorities to consider relocation of the family outside Hathras but within Uttar Pradesh.
The high court’s order came on a PIL registered suo motu as Right to Decent and Dignified Last Rites/Cremation in 2020 after victim’s last rites were performed in haste after midnight allegedly in the absence of the consent of the family.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 27, 2023