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AAP leader Raghav Chadha seeks stringent punishment for perpetrators of sa
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
He reiterated the incidents of 2015 when Guru Granth Sahib was burnt in Bargari and Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta in Ludhiana and said that several incidents of disrespect of holy books are coming forward.
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Afghanistan: UN experts call on Taliban to immediately halt public floggin
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
UN experts are deeply aggrieved about a public execution and that flogging has resumed in Afghanistan and call on the de facto authorities to halt immediately all forms of torturous, cruel and degrading forms of punishments.
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Taliban flogging of 20 people brings back hardline practices of old regime
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The lashings allegedly took place at the sports stadium in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of southern Helmand on Wednesday, Khaama Press quoted Mohammad Qasim Riyaz, a spokesperson for the governor's office as saying.
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Acid thrown on minor girl : DCW issues notice to Delhi Police to arrest at
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Delhi Commission for Women on Wednesday issued notice to Delhi Police to arrest the attackers and to give strict punishment to them in case of an acid attack on a school student in Delhi.
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Five Chinese injured in Kabul hotel attack: China
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Five Chinese nationals were injured in an attack on a Kabul hotel, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said demanding an investigation into the case and severe punishment for "the attackers", reported Reuters.
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US sanctions Sri Lankan Army officer for human rights violations
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
"Pursuant to Section 7031(c), the Department of State is designating Bulathwatte for his involvement in a gross violation of human rights, namely torture and/or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment of Sri Lankan journalist, Keith Noyahr, in May 2008," US State Department s
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Punjab CM meets Amit Shah, seeks Centre's intervention over presidential n
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Punjab CM said the quantum of punishment for the sacrilege of Holy Books as per existing provisions of Sections 295 and 295-A in the Indian Penal Code is too inadequate.
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Taliban defends public execution, calls punishment is "divine command"
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A spokesperson for the Islamic Emirates, Bilal Karimi said, "The execution yesterday took place after many investigations, which were aligned with Islamic (law). All sides should not have any concern in this regard and should respect it."
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Guy who shot Lady Gaga's dog-walker gets 21-year imprisonment
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
James Howard Jackson, the man who was charged with shooting the dog walker of pop superstar Lady Gaga just got a stiff punishment for the crime.
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Indonesia criminalizes sex outside marriage
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The US news broadcaster said the new code bans cohabitation before marriage, apostasy, and provides punishments for insulting the president or expressing views counter to the national ideology.
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Bihar panchayat settles rape of minor girl by asking accused to do 5 sit-u
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Sources said three days ago, a panchayat was convened in the matter and the panchayat chief or mukhiya, as the post is called locally, sentenced the accused youth to do sit-ups 5 times as a punishment for the alleged rape.
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Parents of rapists should also be punished, says BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiy
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Vijayvargiya further said that similarly, parents of the murder convicts would also be punished with imprisonment. "Because as there is a contribution of parents in making of good children, similarly, if they did not pay attention then only children do such misdeeds," he added.
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