Author: Monika S

A horrible incident happened on Saturday, 2nd April 2022, when a woman and her one-and-a-half-year-old child were set ablaze alive for resisting sexual abuse. Near Natham village, Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu, the brother-in-law of a woman named Anjali, burnt the 22-year-old woman and her child to death.   According to the news report published by DT Next news agency, the victim and her husband, Sivakumar, a daily-wage worker, living in a joint family where the brother of Sivakumar, Karuppaiah used to allegedly misbehave and torture Anjali. During the incident day, Sivakumar left for work and Anjali, the wife went to…

On 3rd April 2022, Sunday evening, a Muslim man tried to enter the Gorakhnath Temple in Uttar Pradesh and attacked two policemen. The man armed with a sharp weapon tried to forcibly enter the temple and injured the two Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) with his weapon. According to the news report published in Times Now, the attacker was chanting ‘Allah hu Akbar’ when he tried to attack the police personnel. He even tried to seize the SLR rifle but in the meantime, he was overpowered and arrested.   As quoted by Times Now, Additional Director General (ADG), Gorakhpur Zone, Akhil Kumar,…

On Friday, 1st April 2022, the Delhi High Court, over the vandalism outside the residence of Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, asked the Delhi police to file a status report on the matter. During the hearing of the case, the court said that the CCTV footage around Kejriwal’s residence must be preserved. According to India, Today’s published file status report, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) North who was present in the courtroom, said that the CCTV footage from the cameras at the place of incident, arterial roads leading to the CM’s residence, and all the evidence relating to the…

Congress leader, Rahul Gandhi on his visit to Bengaluru indirectly initiated the election campaign. In his visit, he said that the Indian Economy has collapsed and unemployment and inflation, posing a major threat, have increased. He, in his speech, said that even if the BJP government wants to provide jobs for people, they cannot provide them as they have destroyed the employment providing sector. According to ANI, the Congress leader aiming for not less than 150 seats in Karnataka, had said that the party will bring Karnataka back on the development track. Rahul Gandhi also added that the tickets should…

On Friday, 1st April 2022, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin along with Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal visited government schools in Delhi. TN CM was also accompanied by Deputy CM of Delhi, Manish Sisodia. Visiting the Rajkiya Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya in West Vinod Nagar, CM MK Stalin interacted with school students. He also visited the Mohalla clinic of the Delhi government as part of the visit. As part of his four days visit to Delhi, TN CM MK Stalin met the Union Finance Minister (FM), Nirmala Sitharaman Today. While visiting FM Sitharaman, TN CM requested to release Rs.…

On Thursday, 31st March 2022, in Irkichedu village of Jogulamba Gadwal, Telangana during the installation of Dr B.R. Ambedkar statue, opposing to the installation of Ambedkar statue at the place, two groups clashed with each other. The quarrel happened in the centre of the village. The Kalur Thimma Doddi Police resorted to the lathi charge as some miscreants threw stones and made the clash violent. Even in the presence of police, they set fire to the state and tried to damage it. Gadwal DSP N. Ranga Swamy, according to the Deccan Chronicle report, said that the clash took place since…

The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday, 31st March 2022, revoked the 10.5% internal reservation for Vanniyars. Upholding the Madras High Court verdict, the SC nullified the Vanniyar Reservation Act 2021 which provides 10.5% internal reservation for the Vanniyar caste in educational institutions and jobs. The Petition Challenging Madras HC Verdict: The bench headed by Justices L Nageswara Rao and BR Gavai heard the petition filed by the TN government and Political party PMK challenging the Madras HC verdict to quash the act. The plea stated that the Madras HC verdict was inaccurate and mentioned that the state has the authority…

On Wednesday, 30th March 2022, the Supreme Court (SC) appointed a monitoring committee to monitor the Special Investigation Team (SIT) recommended cancellation of Ashish Mishra’s bail plea. The SC told the State of Uttar Pradesh (UP) that it should file an appeal challenging the Allahabad High Court (HC) order granting bail to the prime accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri case which resulted in the death of eight people. It is to be noted that the SC had previously appointed former judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain as a monitoring judge to monitor the investigation…

On Tuesday, 29th March 2022, Malayalam actor Dileep appeared before the crime branch for the second consecutive day. Being an eighth accused in the 2017 actress assault case, Dileep turned up for the interrogation today in connection with the case. The interrogation is ongoing in the presence of ADG, Crime Branch S Sreejith at Aluva Police Club. On Monday, March 28, 2022, the interrogation with Dileep went on for around seven hours. After which, Today, he was called for the second day of interrogation. With respect to the case, the Kerala High Court earlier directed the probe team to conclude…

On Monday, 28th March 2022, Pramod Sawant, the face of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa, took as Chief Minister for the second consecutive term. After winning 20 seats out of 40 seats in the recently concluded Goa Assembly elections, the BJP frontman in Goa was sworn in as CM at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium in Taleigao in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister, Amit Shah. This is the first time that the CM took oath outside Raj Bhavan. On Monday, 28th March 2022, Pramod Sawant, the face of the Bharatiya Janata Party…