A young man from Thampalakad in Kerala’s Kottayam district died by suicide after scheduling an Instagram post alleging repeated sexual abuse by workers of Hindutva paramilitary organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, sparking widespread outrage.
The Principal District and Sessions Court at Kanchipuram has issued summons in a defamation suit filed by Avinav Thakur, Assistant Registrar of RGNIYD who faces sexual assault allegations, seeking damages and a permanent injunction against Maktoob, Edex Live, a professor, and protesting students for publishing what he termed “defamatory allegations.
C. Krishnakumar, the BJP’s Kerala Vice President and a long-time Hindutva figure in Palakkad district, is facing a grave sexual assault allegation from a relative who, in her complaint to BJP Kerala President Rajeev Chandrasekhar, alleged that he assaulted her several years ago.
Senior BJP leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, 81, was booked by the Sadashivanagar police late on Thursday night under a section of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) based on a complaint by the mother of a 17-year-old of sexual assault.