"The incident took place after Soni and her husband Satbir had a fight with their neighbours over the filling of water from a common water tap," said the police.
Thailand's Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara visited Mae Sot, a border town near Myanmar, on Friday amid escalating clashes that have resulted in troops of the ruling military Junta into retreat by ethnic minority armed groups, while hundreds of residents have been forced to flee, Al
According to the same UN press release the experts expressed concern that forced marriages and religious conversions of girls from religious minorities which have been coerced are validated by the courts, often invoking religious law to justify keeping victims with their abductors rather tha
On the eve of Baisakhi, the Indian Minorities Foundation (IMF)-led Sikh delegation extended wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and offered prayers at Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara for a successful continuation of his leadership in future.
"Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence," the experts said in a statement issued in Geneva on Thursday.
Several people belonging to minority and tribal communities left the Congress and joined the BJP at Khatima in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand on Thursday. They joined the BJP in the presence of the state Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.
The Lahore police secured a four-day physical remand for Abubakar Muaviya after a case was registered against him at the Shahdara Police Station for raping a child.
A case has been filed against three accused for forcibly converting and marrying an 11-year-old non-Muslim girl in the Ferozwala area of Sheikhupura district.
"The police have registered a case against the three accused under IPC Section 376D, 328, POCSO Act 3/4, and 3/2 SC ST Act and have also arrested the trio, which included Bharat Singh, Anil, and Sonu," said the SSP of Moradabad.