NC Digest: The Stories That You Must Not Miss Today

• Patna HC Rescues Woman Being Beaten Up By Her District Judge Father For Being In Love

The Patna High Court on Tuesday directed that arrangements be made for shifting a judge’s daughter to Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) hostel after she admitted that “she is not comfortable staying with her parents” and “wanted to get into wedlock”. The court also added that she is allowed to talk to anybody during her stay at the university campus. The parents of the woman in question had confined her in their residence with an intention to keep her away from her Delhi-based lover, News Central24x7 first reported the matter on June 21, 2018. She was also beaten up by her parents, according to her lover. Read more here.

• Private Company Forces Employee To Resign Because He Is A Muslim

A 37-year-old software professional has alleged that he was forced to resign after he raised his voice against “religious discrimination” and “mental harassment” by his senior manager in a Pune-based firm. In his letter to the labour commissioner, Aman Khan, who was working as a technical lead with EXFO Electro-optical India Pvt Ltd, claimed that the company’s HR had informed him about the termination of his services on June 12 and “forced” him to sign his “resignation” letter. Read more here.

• Uttar Pradesh: Dalit Woman, Mother Attacked For Opposing Sexual Harassment

A 21-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly sexually harassed and her mother was attacked by a youth for opposing him at Bhokaheri village in the district, police said here today. The incident took place yesterday when both the women had gone for collecting water from a hand-pump in the village under Bhopa police station, Circle Officer Rajive Kumar Gotam said. Read more here.

• BJP MLA, Woman, Claims She And Her Family Are Being Harassed By The Police At The Behest Of A ‘Senior Leader’ In BJP

A woman BJP MLA today broke down in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, claiming that she and her family members were being harassed by police at the behest of a senior leader of her own party. During the Zero Hour, MLA Neelam Abhay Mishra stood up and said the Rewa district police were trying to frame up her and her family members in false cases, and sought security cover. The Rewa superintendent of police was acting in a biased manner against her and her family at the behest of a powerful BJP leader, a tearful Mishra alleged. Read more here.

• A Nation Of Angry Mobs: Woman Beaten To Death By Mob On Rumours Of Child Lifting

In yet another case of rumours leading to lynching, a 40-year-old woman was beaten to death by a mob here on the suspicion of being a child-lifter. The incident took place at Juna Vadaj Circle this afternoon when a mob of around 30 persons attacked four women travelling in an auto rickshaw, said inspector J A Rathva of Vadaj police station. Read more here.

• Under BJP-NPP Alliance, Meghalaya Emerging As Heroin Distribution Centre

Meghalaya is slowly emerging as the transit point for distribution of heroin in the country, a senior police officer has said. “With Shillong as the transit point, many players, some with militant background or affiliations, are involved in the drug trafficking business to fund their anti-social activities,” East Khasi Hills Superintendent of Police Davis Marak said. He was addressing an event to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking here yesterday. Read more here.

• BJP MP’s Son And Friend Thrash Journo And Journo’s Parents For Reporting On Irregularities In Govt Scheme. FIR Filed

A journalist and his parents were allegedly beaten up by the son of a BJP MP and his friend in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district after he published a report on irregularities in a government scheme, police said today. An FIR was registered against Devendra Singh Maravi (32) and his friend Shivwrat Singh today at Lakahnpur police station, based on the complaint filed by journalist Rajesh Prasad Gupta. Devendra is the son of Kamalbhan Singh Maravi, BJP MP from Surguja. Read more here.

• Modi Should Spend More Time In M.P. To Know Reality: Scindia

Prime Minister Narendra Modi should spend more time in Madhya Pradesh to find out the real situation in the state, senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia today said. Talking to reporters here, Scindia said, “If Modi spends a little more time in Madhya Pradesh, he will come to know that corruption has reached its extreme limits in the state.” Blaming the ruling BJP for corruption and the plight of farmers, Scindia said that voters would oust the party in the coming Assembly elections. Read more here.

• Farmers’ Outfit Keen To Join Hands With Sena If It Quits NDA

Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana leader Raju Shetti today said his outfit is keen on joining hands with the Shiv Sena if it quits the NDA government at the Centre and the BJP-led dispensation in Maharashtra. The Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana, headed by Shetti, had last year pulled out of the NDA and the ‘Mahayuti’ (grand alliance) in Maharashtra, accusing the central government of failing to honour its promises made to farmers. Read more here.

• Rupee At 19-Month Low; Down 30 Paise Against US Dollar

The rupee plunged by 30 paise to hit a 19-month low of 68.54 against the US dollar in early trade today on strong month-end dollar demand from importers and banks amid sustained foreign capital outflows. This is the rupee’s lowest level against the greenback since November 29, 2016. The dollar’s strength against some currencies overseas weighed on the local unit but a higher opening of the domestic equity markets capped the losses, traders said. Read more here.