Village Heads

Tamil Nadu Police has been put on high alert in the southern region of the state following the assault on a 17-year-old Dalit teenager in Melapattam village in Tirunelveli district.

A village head's representative in Nasirabad area here was allegedly forced to lick his spit by the local police for "creating chaos" during a 'nautanki' programme organised without permission from the authorities, officials said on Sunday.

A Jammu and Kashmir Police head constable was killed and an assistant sub-inspector was injured Saturday evening during an encounter between security forces and terrorists in a remote village in Kathua district, officials said.

A man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife, a village head, and slicing her ear with a sickle, police said on Wednesday.

Kasganj (UP), June 25 (IANS) Two minor boys aged 10 and 14 years, were mercilessly thrashed, tonsured, tied with a rope and paraded around the village over accusations of stealing Rs 5,000 from a shop. However, no money was recovered from them.

The 17-year-old son of a village head has been caught for allegedly voting multiple times in the fourth phase of polling in UP's Farrukhabad seat on May 13, the police said.

The Rajasthan High Court directed the state government to ensure that no child marriages are solemnised in the state and that village heads and panchayat members would be held accountable if such marriages happened.

A patient with critical head injuries was on Monday airlifted in an Indian Air Force aircraft to Leh from a village in the Zanskar region of south Ladakh after continuous snowfall cut off ground access, it said.

A male leopard had its head stuck in a metal pot for five hours in a village in Dhule district of Maharashtra.

Two minor sisters were killed Saturday after wall of a community toilet, built when their grandfather was the head of their village in 2012, collapsed on them while they were playing near it, police said on Saturday.

A special police officer (SPO) and three head constables were injured allegedly after being attacked by some villagers for stopping overloaded tractor-trolleys carrying stone dust in this district, police said on Thursday.

Aggrieved over his mother for not transferring a land parcel to his name, a man allegedly decapitated her in a village on Saturday, police said.

A village development officer was allegedly locked inside a room and thrashed by a village head's husband and son in UP's Bhadohi after he refused to clear a fraudulent payment, officials said.

The Allahabad High Court has taken a strong stand on the interference of Pradhans in the work of the village council.

A head constable and a constable have been suspended for allegedly being absent from duty during an event held in Maharashtra's Bhandara district where a woman and some other people indulged in an obscene dance, officials said on Thursday.

Tamil Nadu Police has been put on high alert in the southern region of the state following the assault on a 17-year-old Dalit teenager in Melapattam village in Tirunelveli district.

A village head's representative in Nasirabad area here was allegedly forced to lick his spit by the local police for "creating chaos" during a 'nautanki' programme organised without permission from the authorities, officials said on Sunday.

A Jammu and Kashmir Police head constable was killed and an assistant sub-inspector was injured Saturday evening during an encounter between security forces and terrorists in a remote village in Kathua district, officials said.

A man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife, a village head, and slicing her ear with a sickle, police said on Wednesday.

Kasganj (UP), June 25 (IANS) Two minor boys aged 10 and 14 years, were mercilessly thrashed, tonsured, tied with a rope and paraded around the village over accusations of stealing Rs 5,000 from a shop. However, no money was recovered from them.

The 17-year-old son of a village head has been caught for allegedly voting multiple times in the fourth phase of polling in UP's Farrukhabad seat on May 13, the police said.

The Rajasthan High Court directed the state government to ensure that no child marriages are solemnised in the state and that village heads and panchayat members would be held accountable if such marriages happened.

A patient with critical head injuries was on Monday airlifted in an Indian Air Force aircraft to Leh from a village in the Zanskar region of south Ladakh after continuous snowfall cut off ground access, it said.

A male leopard had its head stuck in a metal pot for five hours in a village in Dhule district of Maharashtra.

Two minor sisters were killed Saturday after wall of a community toilet, built when their grandfather was the head of their village in 2012, collapsed on them while they were playing near it, police said on Saturday.

A special police officer (SPO) and three head constables were injured allegedly after being attacked by some villagers for stopping overloaded tractor-trolleys carrying stone dust in this district, police said on Thursday.

Aggrieved over his mother for not transferring a land parcel to his name, a man allegedly decapitated her in a village on Saturday, police said.

A village development officer was allegedly locked inside a room and thrashed by a village head's husband and son in UP's Bhadohi after he refused to clear a fraudulent payment, officials said.

The Allahabad High Court has taken a strong stand on the interference of Pradhans in the work of the village council.

A head constable and a constable have been suspended for allegedly being absent from duty during an event held in Maharashtra's Bhandara district where a woman and some other people indulged in an obscene dance, officials said on Thursday.