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Haridwar prisoner alleges torture, probe ordered
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Haridwar (Uttarakhand) [India] March 10 (ANI): After a prisoner of Haridwar district jail uploaded a video on the social media, accusing the authorities of torturing him, the Haridwar district administration on Saturday ordered a probe into the matter.
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Kochi yoga centre in soup over religious conversion, molestation
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Kochi (Kerala)[India], Feb. 8 (ANI): A yoga centre in Kerala's Kochi has come under scanner for alleged religious conversions and molestation of women.
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6 Indians trapped in Malaysia approach MEA for help
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Jan 21 (ANI): Families of six Indians who are allegedly being tortured by their employers in Malaysia have approached the Ministry of External Affairs to bring them back to India.
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Kin of Jind rape, murder accused allege torture by police
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Kurukshetra (Haryana) [India], Jan 18 (ANI): Kin of the alleged abductor in the savage rape and murder case of a 15-year-old Dalit girl in Haryana's Jind claimed they were tortured by the police officials.
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13 chained siblings rescued in California
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
California [United States], Jan 16 (ANI): Authorities in California have said that they rescued 13 malnourished siblings from a home in Perris, about 70 miles east of Los Angeles. Some of them were even allegedly chained to beds.
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Congress defends Lalu post fodder scam verdict
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai/New Delhi [India] Dec. 23 (ANI): Hours after Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was convicted in the fodder scam, the Congress Party on Saturday came out in his support, saying that he should not be tortured for a decades-old case.
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'Tortured' Hindus get shelter in India: Mohan Bhagwat
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], December 18, (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that the "tortured" Hindus from across the world come to India for shelter.
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WBWF demands release of all Baloch women, children from 'Pakistan's tortur
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Vancouver [Canada], December 8 (ANI): The World Baloch Women Forum (WBWF) has condemned the abduction of Baloch leader Allah Nazar's sister Noor Khatoon and demanded immediate release of all Baloch women and children from Pakistan's torture cells.
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Ashwani Kumar hopes Centre will enact anti-torture law soon
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Nov. 27 (ANI): Senior advocate and former Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar on Monday hoped the Centre would soon enact anti-torture law to meet international obligations.
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SC refuses plea seeking enactment of law to prevent torture
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 27 (ANI): Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain former Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar's plea seeking directions to the Centre to enact laws to define and prevent torture.
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Pradyuman murder case: Ashok was tortured, sedated to confess, alleges fam
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], Nov 23 (ANI): Bus conductor Ashok's family has alleged that the police authorities beat him up, hung him upside down, tortured him and even sedated him to confess for the murder of Pradyuman in Ryan International School.
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India asks Pakistan to end illegal occupation of PoK
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 13 (ANI): India on Monday appealed to the Government of Pakistan at its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in the United Nations "to provide freedom to people of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) by ending its illegal and forceful occupation and to stop tortur
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