Rajasthan

A fast track court in Udaipur on Wednesday sentenced a guest house owner to life imprisonment for rape of a 40-year-old British journalist last December and fined him Rs25,000 while also convicting him for house-trespass to commit an offence punishable with life in prison, the Hindu has reported. Parbat Singh, owner of Pardesi Guest House in Ambamata area of Udaipur, criminally assaulted the...

Photo journalist of a Hindi daily and vice president of the Pink City Press Club Niranjan Chauhan was beaten up at a marriage party, where he had taken photographs of the misuse of domestic gas cylinders. According to the police, a medico-legal case has been registered against the assailants and three persons have been arrested from Trimurti Circle in the city where the incident occurred. The...