Lady constable beats up women riding triple-seat on motorbike, later apologises
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (PTI): A female traffic constable beat up three young women riding a two-wheeler in Maharashtra's Latur city in violation of the road rules, and later apologised for her actions but asserted her intention was not wrong.
A video surfaced on social media platforms on Monday in which constable Pranita Musne was seen verbally abusing and assaulting the women who were caught riding triple-seat on the scooter, which is against the law.
In the clip, shot at Renapur Naka in Latur, the constable was seen alleging the three women were riding in a rash manner.
The constable later slapped one of the three women.
After the video surfaced, Musne told reporters on Tuesday that she was working with the traffic department for last two-and-a-half years.
"I was going for my duty after dropping off my daughters for tuition classes, and saw three women riding a two-wheeler in a rash manner," she said.
The constable claimed when she asked the women to travel safely, they told her to mind her own business.
"They continued the unsafe ride and and one of the women riding pillion was not even sitting properly," Musne said.
The constable said she followed the women and caught them when they stopped after a state transport bus came in their way.
"I slapped the woman," Musne said, adding she acted like a mother, and not a police constable, at that time.
"The language that I used was also wrong and I apologise to the women and their parents. But my intention was not wrong," she added.
Police officials in Latur were not available for a comment on the incident.
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Allahabad HC sets aside maintenance order in favour of earning wife, says she didn't tell truth
Prayagraj (PTI): The Allahabad High Court has set aside a lower court order mandating a man to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, observing that she earns her living and did not reveal the true salary in her affidavit.
Justice Madan Pal Singh also allowed a criminal revision petition filed by the man, Ankit Saha.
"A perusal of the impugned judgment indicates that in the affidavit filed before the trial court, the opposite party herself admitted that she is a post-graduate and a web designer by qualification. She is working as a senior sales coordinator in a company and getting a salary of Rs 34,000 per month," the court said in the December 3 order.
"But in her cross-examination, she has admitted that she was earning Rs 36,000 per month. Such an amount for a wife who has no other liability cannot be said to be meagre; whereas the man has the responsibility of maintaining his aged parents and other social obligations," it observed.
The high court observed that the woman was not entitled to get any maintenance from her husband "as she is an earning lady and able to maintain herself".
The man's counsel argued in court that the estranged wife did not reveal the whole truth in the affidavit.
"She claimed herself to be an illiterate and unemployed woman. When the document filed by the man was shown to her before the trial court, she admitted her income during cross-examination. Thus, it is clear that she did not come before the trial court with clean hands," the counsel submitted.
The court, in its order, said, "Cases of those litigants who have no regard for the truth and those who indulge in suppressing material facts need to be thrown out of the court."
It impugned the lower court's February 17 judgment and order, passed by the principal judge of a family court in Gautam Buddh Nagar and allowed the criminal revision petition filed by the man.
