Torture
- Hyderabad
Suicide threats, intimidation amount to mental cruelty: Telangana HC
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has held that repeated suicide threats, abusive conduct and intimidation through false legal action amount to mental cruelty and is sufficient to dissolve a marriage, upholding a family…
- Hate Crime
Stripped, beaten, sexually assaulted: Delhi Police abduct, torture activists
Delhi: Rights group Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) on Wednesday, March 18, strongly condemned the Delhi Police for allegedly abducting 10 people – two labour rights activists, two anti-displacement activists and six…
- World
Nirav Modi seeks to reopen UK extradition case over torture risk
London: Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi’s application hearing seeking permission to reopen his extradition appeal concluded in the High Court in London, with claims that he faces a “real risk of torture”…
- Hyderabad
Three youths allege torture at Raidurgam police station in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Three youngsters were allegedly subjected to third-degree torture at the Raidurgam Police Station on Sunday, March 8. According to MBT party spokesperson, Amjed Ullah Khan, on Saturday night at around 12:20…
- Telangana
Telangana teacher tortures 8-year-old for being ‘too talkative’
Hyderabad: In a troubling incident, a teacher allegedly covered the mouth of a Class 2 student and repeatedly poked near the child’s eye, simply because the student was “too talkative.” The incident…
- India
UP: Newly-wed man tortures wife with cigarette burns over dowry
Bhadohi: Barely two days after getting married, a man in Bhadohi district here allegedly assaulted his wife regularly with cigarette burns over dowry demands while his father and sister also assaulted her,…
- Bangalore
Karnataka: Man ends life alleging torture by wife on day of divorce petition hearing
Bengaluru: Unable to bear alleged harassment by his wife, a man reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself on Monday at Hubballi in Karnataka. The victim ended his life on the same day…
- Telangana
2017 Nerella torture case: Telangana HC asks govt to submit status report
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court instructed the state government to submit a status report within two weeks concerning the ongoing case against police officers accused of torturing Dalit and Backward Class youth…
- News
Cop ends life over torture by wife, father-in-law in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: Amid public outrage over the sensational suicide case of Atul Subhash, a cop took the extreme step, allegedly due to torture by his wife and in-laws on Saturday. The deceased has…
- Middle East
US Jury awards $42 million to Iraqi victims of Abu Ghraib torture cell after 20 yrs
A federal jury in Virginia has issued a landmark verdict against a private defence contractor CACI Premier Technology for its role in the torture of three Iraqi men at the United States-run…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP woman placed under house arrest by employer in Kuwait
A woman from Andhra Pradesh has reportedly been placed under house arrest in Kuwait by her employer. The woman is allegedly being physically and mentally tortured and is being deprived of food.…
- Telangana
Dalit woman alleges torture in Telangana police station, inquiry ordered
Hyderabad: A Dalit woman has alleged that she was tortured by cops at Shadnagar police station near here, following which a departmental inquiry has been ordered. The woman, it is claimed, was…
- Telangana
More than meets the eye in Nagarkurnool Chenchu woman torture case
Hyderabad: The barbaric torture of Nirmalamma*, a Chenchu woman from Molachinthalapalli village in Kollapur mandal, Nagarkurnool district, has shocked the conscience of Telangana’s civil society. Though the issue has been projected as…
- Telangana
Telangana: 4 held for torturing Dalit man, teen for ‘stealing’ goat
Hyderabad: Four people were arrested for torturing a 30-year-old Dalit man and a 19-year-old boy who according to them stole a goat at Yapal village near Mandamarri town of Mancherial district. The…
