Badlapur

MVA Announces Statewide Bandh Over Badlapur Sexual Assault; CM Eknath Shinde Labels Protest as Politically Driven.

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Meanwhile, MVA Opposes Nikam as Prosecutor, Arguing a BJP Member Can’t Investigate a BJP-Run School. As the Opposition, with upcoming elections in mind, has devised a strategy to pressure the government by calling for a state bandh on August 24 over the Badlapur sexual assault case, CM Eknath Shinde has claimed that Tuesday’s protest was politically motivated and orchestrated. “Protests don’t occur like this; the number of local participants could be counted on one hand,” he remarked. Most of the protesters were transported in from outside, carrying placards opposing the ‘CM Ladki Bahin Yojna’—the government’s ambitious cash assistance program for …

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Badlapur School Sexual Abuse: What One of the Two Thane Girls Revealed to Her Parents.

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Thousands of protesters blocked railway tracks at Badlapur station in Thane, protesting the alleged sexual assault of two girls by a school sweeper in the washroom. On Tuesday, thousands of protesters blocked train tracks at Badlapur railway station in Maharashtra’s Thane district, rallying against the alleged sexual assault of two four-year-old girls by a school sweeper in the washroom. The large-scale protest caused disruptions to local train services and led to the diversion of some long-distance trains. After nine hours, police dispersed the protesters at Badlapur railway station using lathicharge. Two four-year-old girls in pre-primary classes at a well-known co-ed …

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