7 of family booked for assault after row over music at New Year party
Thane (PTI): Police have registered a case against seven members of a family for allegedly breaking into a woman's house here and assaulting her and her relatives after a dispute over loud music during New Year celebrations, officials said on Sunday.
The 52-year-old woman lives at Vandrapada in the Ambernath area of Maharashtra's Thane district.
There was a quarrel between her and the accused on the night of December 31 over the latter playing loud music during New Year's celebrations.
Later, at around 12.30 am on Friday, the accused allegedly broke open the door of the victim's house, entered the premises and beat her and her family members, causing serious injuries to some of them, an official from Ambernath police station said.
The injured persons, including the victim, were hospitalised and are currently undergoing treatment, the police said without specifying the number of those hurt in the incident.
Based on the woman's complaint, the police on Friday registered a case against seven persons under various Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections, including for rioting and assault, the official said.
A probe was on into the case, the police added.
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PM's silence on Kharge's insult by Himanta is his consent: Rahul
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the use of "derogatory language" against party chief Mallikarjun Kharge by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is an insult to the entire SC/ST community, and the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the matter "is not his helplessness, but his consent".
"If the prime minister sees an attack on the dignity of crores of Dalits in the country and does not speak up - he is not only shirking his responsibility, but is also a party to that insult," Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X.
Gandhi said the use of "vulgar and derogatory language" by Sarma against Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Kharge "is entirely condemnable, shameful, and unacceptable".
"Kharge ji is a senior and popular Dalit leader of the country - his experience, stature, and prestige are unparalleled. Insulting him is not an insult to one individual alone, but also to crores of people from the SC-ST community in this country," he posted.
This, he said, just reflected the "old and premeditated mindset" of the BJP-RSS and was nothing new, the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha said.
"Whether it is the insult to Babasaheb Ambedkar, belittling Dalit leaders, or personal attacks on representatives of the SC-ST community - the history of BJP and RSS bears witness that whenever a Dalit leader speaks the truth, they stoop to humiliate him," he posted.
"This is their ideology, this is their true character and face," he added.
Posing a direct question to the PM, he asked, "do you support Himanta Sarma's use of this language? Your silence is not helplessness, it is consent."
Sarma earlier hit out at Kharge, claiming that he was "speaking like a madman" due to old age, after the latter put the onus on central agencies to probe the charges made against the Assam chief minister.
Slamming the Congress chief, Sarma said, "Kharge is ageing and is speaking like a pagal (madman)."
