Punjab Molestation

Six women from Uganda and Tanzania have been arrested from a village in Phagwara for allegedly looting a businessman at knifepoint and threatening him to implicate in a molestation case, police said on Sunday.

The chief of a gurdwara at a village here was arrested on Sunday for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl, police said.

A teacher of a government middle school here was arrested on the charge of molesting three students, police said on Saturday.

A class 12 student was allegedly sexually harassed and pushed down the stairs by her friends at a stadium in Punjab's Moga district, leaving her seriously injured. Although the incident took place last week, a case was filed on Tuesday.

Two women in Punjab's Amritsar sustained injuries on Saturday after they jumped out of a running cab when its driver allegedly tried to molest one of them, police said.

The Mumbai Police has filed a charge sheet against businessman Ness Wadia about four years after actor Preity Zinta filed a case of molestation against him.

A court in Punjab has acquitted a bus driver and his three accomplices of charges of molesting a 14-year-old Dalit girl and pushing her off a moving bus leading to her death in Moga in 2015, citing "lack of evidence" after the victim's mother turned hostile.

Submitting a status report on the alleged Murthal gang-rapes, the Haryana government today told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that no such rapes or incidents of molestation were reported from Haryana's Sonipat district during the recent Jat agitation.

Two youth who allegedly shot dead a school teacher who resisted their lewd remarks and attempt to molest her at a wedding function in Punjab's Batala town were arrested on Sunday, police said.

24 hours after a scooterist died in a road accident on the Chandigarh-Manali national highway in Punjab, the state police has bowed to public pressure.

A speeding private luxury bus, said to belong to a company owned by the ruling Badal family, allegedly ran over a scooterist on the Chandigarh-Manali national highway in Ropar on Thursday. The area witnessed angry protests over the death, with locals sitting on the accident site with body.

As the Punjab bus tragedy rocked Parliament today, Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal paid a quiet visit to the civil hospital, where the mother of the teenager who died last week is admitted.

Both houses of Parliament were adjourned repeatedly this morning as the opposition protested noisily demanding a discussion on the death of a 14-year-old girl who was molested and then thrown off a bus in Punjab's Moga last week.

A video from two years ago that shows employees of bus company Orbit Aviation beating up a traffic cop on a busy road in Punjab, has gone viral on social media, amid outrage and political protests in the state against Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's family, which owns the company.

Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Amarinder Singh will move an adjournment motion in the Parliament today to discuss the "collapse of law and order situation" in Punjab and demand President's rule in the state.

Six women from Uganda and Tanzania have been arrested from a village in Phagwara for allegedly looting a businessman at knifepoint and threatening him to implicate in a molestation case, police said on Sunday.

The chief of a gurdwara at a village here was arrested on Sunday for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl, police said.

A teacher of a government middle school here was arrested on the charge of molesting three students, police said on Saturday.

A class 12 student was allegedly sexually harassed and pushed down the stairs by her friends at a stadium in Punjab's Moga district, leaving her seriously injured. Although the incident took place last week, a case was filed on Tuesday.

Two women in Punjab's Amritsar sustained injuries on Saturday after they jumped out of a running cab when its driver allegedly tried to molest one of them, police said.

The Mumbai Police has filed a charge sheet against businessman Ness Wadia about four years after actor Preity Zinta filed a case of molestation against him.

A court in Punjab has acquitted a bus driver and his three accomplices of charges of molesting a 14-year-old Dalit girl and pushing her off a moving bus leading to her death in Moga in 2015, citing "lack of evidence" after the victim's mother turned hostile.

Submitting a status report on the alleged Murthal gang-rapes, the Haryana government today told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that no such rapes or incidents of molestation were reported from Haryana's Sonipat district during the recent Jat agitation.

Two youth who allegedly shot dead a school teacher who resisted their lewd remarks and attempt to molest her at a wedding function in Punjab's Batala town were arrested on Sunday, police said.

24 hours after a scooterist died in a road accident on the Chandigarh-Manali national highway in Punjab, the state police has bowed to public pressure.

A speeding private luxury bus, said to belong to a company owned by the ruling Badal family, allegedly ran over a scooterist on the Chandigarh-Manali national highway in Ropar on Thursday. The area witnessed angry protests over the death, with locals sitting on the accident site with body.

As the Punjab bus tragedy rocked Parliament today, Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal paid a quiet visit to the civil hospital, where the mother of the teenager who died last week is admitted.

Both houses of Parliament were adjourned repeatedly this morning as the opposition protested noisily demanding a discussion on the death of a 14-year-old girl who was molested and then thrown off a bus in Punjab's Moga last week.

A video from two years ago that shows employees of bus company Orbit Aviation beating up a traffic cop on a busy road in Punjab, has gone viral on social media, amid outrage and political protests in the state against Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's family, which owns the company.

Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Amarinder Singh will move an adjournment motion in the Parliament today to discuss the "collapse of law and order situation" in Punjab and demand President's rule in the state.