Chandigarh: With the Punjab and Haryana High Court coming down heavily on the lewd lyrics of songs sung by singer-rapper Honey Singh, the Punjab Police Friday booked him for singing vulgar songs in public.
A case was registered against the singer under provisions of Section 294 (singing, reciting or uttering any obscene song, ballad or words, in or near any public place) of the Indian Penal Code in Punjab's Nawanshahr town, some 80 km from here, a police official said.
"We have registered a case against singer Honey Singh for his vulgar songs following the high court directions," Superintendent of Police S.S. Bhangoo told IANS over phone from Nawanshahr.
The police officer was, however, evasive when asked as to why a case was not registered against the singer when a complaint against him was filed by an NGO earlier this year. ...
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New Delhi: The government on Monday told the Supreme Court that there were no guidelines or rules to regulate the working of private security agencies and an offence by a private security guard would be individual in nature and no liability could be attributed to their agency. "There is no concept of vicarious liability under IPC (Indian Penal Code) and for the use of firearm resulting in the commission of...
04:21 AM, Apr 30, 2013
After being passed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the anti-rape bill will now be taken up in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The Bill was passed in the Lower House after much drama with major amendments being negated. Two amendments, seeking life term for trafficking of children and life imprisonment for acid attack, were defeated. ...
08:12 AM, Mar 20, 2013
As the government gets ready to present its anti-rape Bill in Parliament, first arrest for stalking under the amended section of the Indian Penal Code was made in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Saturday. A Mumbai police team arrested a man accused of stalking a woman, even after she moved to Mumbai. ...
05:28 PM, Mar 16, 2013
In a written answer, Minister of State for Home Affairs RPN Singh said, 81 people were arrested for cyber crimes, of which 42 were arrested under the Information Technology (IT) Act and 39 under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) between 2009 and 2011. ...
06:59 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Former Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy has denied receiving any letter from the Prime Minister's Office in 2003 on the AgustaWestland chopper deal. "I don't think there was any request for proposal or anything that started in my time. We have been working on VVIP helicopters since 1993," S Krishnaswamy said. ...
11:44 AM, Feb 14, 2013
Actor Salman Khan's 1998 Black Buck case comes up in a Jodhpur court on Monday and the court is expected to read out the revised charges against the accused. ...
08:42 AM, Feb 04, 2013
The revised anti-rape law, which is expected to be stringent and facilitate speedier justice, is unlikely to be named after the Delhi gangrape victim as suggested by some quarters. The new law will be framed after Justice Verma Committee, which was constituted to suggest the possible amendments of criminal law to provide for quicker trial and enhanced punishment to criminals in cases of sexual assault against women, submits its report...
04:15 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Supreme Court lawyer Dayan Krishnan has been appointed as the special public prosecutor by city police to conduct trial in the December 16 gangrape of a paramedical student who succumbed to injuries during wee hours on Saturday at a Singapore hospital. "It is Dayan Krishnan, an eminent lawyer... He has volunteered to do it free of cost. He will be assisted by two juniors," Dharmendra Kumar, Special Commissioner of Police...
07:08 PM, Dec 29, 2012
Jodhpur: Bollywood star Salman Khan and three other actors were today summoned by a local court to appear before it on February 4 for charge-framing in the Black Buck poaching case, 14 years after the incident. The lower court had framed Salman Khan under relevant sections of the Wildlife Act, the Arms Act and the IPC while the others, including actors Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre, Nilam, Dushyant Singh...
06:29 PM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: Now that Kanpur-based cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has been charged with sedition for his cartoons that 'mocked' the country's political class, Parliament and the national emblem, one has to bear in mind that the word "sedition" does not actually figure anywhere in the Indian Constitution. It is an offence against the state as enumerated in the Indian Penal Code which is an 1860 Act ratified by the British to...
12:07 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Vidisha: Two minor boys were arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl in Sanouti village under Kararia Police station near Vidisha, police said. The incident occurred when the girl, belonging to a reserved category, and the accused were working in an agriculture field where they allegedly raped her two days ago, Kararia Police station sub-inspector Reema Yadav told reporters today. The matter was reported to police by victim's parents following...
02:13 PM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: An engineering institute's director and teacher, accused of abetting a student's suicide in 2005, were discharged by a Delhi court due to lack of evidence to make them face trial. Harsh Khatri, a student of mechanical and automation engineering at Amity School of Engineering and Technology in west Delhi's Bijwasan area, ended his life in October 2005 after he was erroneously awarded zero marks in a subject. Additional...
06:34 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday opposed decriminalisation of gay sex in the country before the Supreme Court. "This is highly immoral and against the social order," the Ministry told the apex court. The Section - 377 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) reads 'Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished'. The offender could have to face...
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Berlin: German patent firm IPCom plans to halt as quickly as possible the sale of all HTC smartphones in Germany, another blow to the Taiwanese firm just two days after it shocked markets by cutting its fourth-quarter outlook. IPCom said on Friday it would enforce an injunction based on a Mannheim court decision from February 2009 after HTC, the fourth largest smartphone vendor globally, withdrew its appeal, which was due...
09:50 AM, Nov 28, 2011
Nitish Katara's mother, Neelam Katara commented on Manu Sharma getting a 5-day parole and said change is needed in Indian Penal Code. ...
11:40 AM, Nov 16, 2011
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12:32 PM, Oct 22, 2011
New Delhi: An Indian Army personnel, who was working as an ISI module and passing on sensitive information inimical to the country's security to Pakistan, has been sentenced to three years in jail by a Delhi court. "The accused is convicted under section 120-B of the IPC for entering into criminal conspiracy with one Pramod who was working as an ISI agent to indulge in espionage activities to transmit sensitive...
03:25 PM, May 16, 2011
Madurai: BJP has demanded dismissal of Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers M K Alagiri from the Union cabinet in the wake of police booking cases against him and some DMK workers on charges of assaulting an election official and a videographer at a village in the district. Talking to reporters in Madurai on Saturday evening, BJP national Secretary P Muralidhar Rao said "democracy is facing a threat in Tamil...
12:59 PM, Apr 04, 2011
