A Gujarat Congress leader was arrested on Saturday for allegedly insulting and causing injuries to a Dalit woman state Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer by pulling the chair from under her at party MLA Jignesh Mevani’s press conference in Bhuj in Kutch district, police said. The woman assistant intelligence officer, Reena Chauhan, was on official duty at the press conference when Haresh Ahir pulled the chair from under her after she stood up, causing her to fall and getting injured when she tried to sit back, Deputy Superintendent of Police A…
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Vadodara POCSO court awards 20-year rigorous imprisonment to accused despite victim turning hostile | Ahmedabad News
A Special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) court in Vadodara has sentenced a 24-year-old man to 20-year rigorous imprisonment, despite the victim and her parents turning hostile during the trial. The accused is a convict in a 2022 case of rape of his minor niece in a village on the outskirts of Vadodara city. The court — terming the victim a “tutored witness” due to her “family relation” with the accused — relied on medical evidence and “demeanor” of the accused in awarding the sentence. According to…