Delhi court acquits ex-AAP MLA in 2014 case of 'assault' on African womenA Delhi court has acquitted former Aam Aadmi Party MLA Somnath Bharti. He faced charges related to an alleged assault on women from African...
24 Apr, 2026, 04.51 PM IST
TCS Nashik issue: How undercover police posing as cleaners exposed sexual abuse, religious coercion and HR failure at the BPO unitTCS Nashik issue: A month-long undercover police operation inside a TCS BPO unit in Nashik has led to nine FIRs and the arrest of seven emp...
14 Apr, 2026, 05.19 PM IST
High courts can't suo motu enhance punishment in appeal: SCThe Supreme Court has ruled on the suo motu revision powers of high courts. High courts cannot enhance sentences without appeals from victi...
04 Jun, 2025, 10.02 PM IST
Pressing a minor girl's lips and sleeping next to her without sexually motivated advances not a POCSO offence: HCThe Delhi High Court ruled that touching a minor girl's lips and sleeping next to her without sexually motivated intent does not constitute...
07 Mar, 2025, 04.18 PM IST
Delhi HC grants time to ex-WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh to file reply on sexual harassment chargesDelhi High Court on Thursday granted time to ex-BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to file note on contentions seeking quashing of FIR and ch...
29 Aug, 2024, 11.59 AM IST
Ex-WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh not exonerated by oversight panel in sexual harassment case: Police tell court"Singh was not exonerated by the oversight committee. The committee had given the recommendations, not the decision... Nowhere has it state...
16 Sep, 2023, 06.53 PM IST
Insulting woman, being rude to her wouldn't amount to outraging modesty: HCThe high court also said gender-specific laws are not meant to be "anti-opposite gender" but to serve the purpose of addressing unique issu...
29 Aug, 2023, 07.19 PM IST
Out on bail social media influencer Sapna Gill seeks molestation FIR against cricketer Prithvi ShawHer application, filed on Monday through her advocate Kaashif Ali Khan at Airport police station in Andheri, seeks an FIR against Shaw, his...
21 Feb, 2023, 08.52 AM IST
Ranveer Singh lands in legal trouble. Complaint filed with Mumbai police against actor over his 'obscene' picsThe applications seek action against Ranveer Singh for "hurting sentiments of women".
27 Jul, 2022, 11.05 AM IST
Jharkhand govt suspends IAS officer Syed Riaz Ahmed accused of sexually harassing IITian"Chief Minister Hemant Soren has given direction to suspend Syed Riaz Ahmed, posted as SDM Khunti. The SDM was charged with sexual harassme...
08 Jul, 2022, 05.10 PM IST
Bombay High Court cancels Preity Zinta's 2004 molestation case against Ness WadiaEarlier this month, the court had asked the couple to 'finish off' the case.
10 Oct, 2018, 10.28 PM IST
Court rejects Pachauri’s ‘consensual’ claimIt held that some of Pachauri’s remarks were “explicit” and “sexually coloured”, which made out a “prima facie case under Section 354 of IP...
17 Sep, 2018, 08.24 AM IST
Bombay HC dismisses Tarun Tejpal's plea seeking quashing of rape, other chargesTejpal was lodged in the Sada sub-jail at Vasco and the crime branch charge-sheeted him on February 17, 2014 for rape, sexual harassment an...
20 Dec, 2017, 04.54 PM IST
Delhi Police charge sheets R K Pachauri for sexual harassmentPachauri has also been accused of stalking and criminally intimidating the victim with gesture or act intended to insult her modesty.
01 Mar, 2016, 04.41 PM IST
Tarun Tejpal fails to get relief from court on bail pleaThe court also allowed Tejpal to move bail petition before the sessions court as the charge sheet has already been filed.
18 Feb, 2014, 12.55 PM IST
Tarun Tejpal charged with rape of woman journalistTarun Tejpal was today charged by Goa police with rape, sexual harassment and outraging modesty of a woman journalist in November last year.
17 Feb, 2014, 02.53 PM IST
Victim's version enough to nail accused in sexual assault: Bombay High CourtBombay HC has held that in cases of outraging modesty of women, the evidence tendered by the victim should be sufficient to nail the accuse...
13 Jun, 2013, 10.25 AM IST