The plea by the accused Ritesh Jha was decided on Saturday. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjashree J. Gharat said in the order that he was found passing derogatory comments against females aiming toward a particular community.
Refusing bail to a 19-year-old woman accused Shweta Singh in the Bulli Bai hateapp case where Muslim women were virtually ‘auctioned’ early this year, a sessions court said in its detailed order that the accused tried getting the Sikh community targeted
Relying on the testimony of a sexual assault victim with intellectual disability – whose testimony was recorded with the help of an interpreter – and the eyewitness account of the man's minor daughter, a sessions court sentenced a 49-year-old man to five years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting his 21-year-old niece.