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Hyderabad: A tea stall owner approached the Medipally police on Saturday and lodged a complaint alleging harassment from online loan app executives. The complainant, identified as Narender Kumar, who runs a tea stall in Medipally area, had borrowed an instant loan from an online loan app. He regularly kept paying the loan interest until recently […]

Mancherial: A 35-year old man, who attempted to end life by consuming some pesticide as he was unable to bear alleged harassment by representatives of various digital money lending applications at Mamidipalli village in Dandepalli mandal on Thursday, died while undergoing treatment on Saturday. Dandepalli Sub-Inspector Samba Murthy said that the deceased person was Bommidi […]

Hyderabad: A 40-year-old man died, allegedly by suicide in his house on Friday. He was reportedly being threatened of digital shaming by executives of an online loan app company. C Ravinder Yadav, who lived in Ram Koti along with his wife and two children, was working with a private company. On Friday afternoon, when the […]

Hyderabad: A 30-year-old woman committed suicide by hanging allegedly due to harassment from her husband and in-laws at Venkateshwara Colony in Saroornagar on Saturday. The woman identified as Ch Nagalaxmi, was a homemaker and married to Srinath seven years ago and the couple has a five-year-old son. Saroornagar Police said though the couple lived happily […]

Hyderabad: The Chairman and principal of a private junior college was booked on charges of sexually harassing a teenage girl student from the college in Hayathnagar. Sources said the suspect Satyanarayana was allegedly making sexual advances towards the victim, a second year intermediate student and made phone calls to the victim after college hours, pressurizing […]

Karimnagar: Unable to tolerate harassment by a money lender, a 26 year-old youth, Marka Prasanth committed suicide by consuming pesticide in Annaram of Manakondur manal on Friday morning. Prasanth made suicide attempt by consuming pesticide in his house at 10.30 pm on Thursday. Family members took him to hospital where he breathed his last while […]

Hyderabad: A woman approached the Narsingi police alleging she was being harassed by an online instant loan app management. The complainant, a private employee had borrowed Rs.18,000 from a loan app and had allegedly repaid it with interest. However, loan app executives recently called her informing that the repayment was not updated at their end. […]

Lucknow: A man has been arrested on the charges of teasing, blackmailing and even stalking girls and women from Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambhi. The accused identified as Raghavendra Maurya was arrested after 113 complaints were received against him by the 1090 Women Power Line. The complaints were received from 36 districts over a period of time. […]

Hyderabad: Venkatesh (30), who was injured after he was stabbed by his brothers-in-law on Thursday night, died while under treatment on Friday night. The Jeedimetla police arrested three persons in connection with the double murder on Saturday. According to the police, Venkatesh, a painter was married to Rekha and they had two children. Venkatesh often […]

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: A newly married tribal woman committed suicide by consuming poison as she was unable to bear alleged harassment of her husband for additional dowry at Kondapalli village in Penchikalpet mandal on Wednesday. The incident came to light on Thursday. Penchikalpet Sub-Inspector Raman Kumar said that the deceased was Athram Sharada (19), a […]

Karimnagar: Allegedly vexed with the sexual harassment by a close cousin, a married woman committed suicide. The lady recorded a selfie video before hanging herself with a rope. This bizarre incident took place in Karimnagar on Thursday. According to police, Aruna, a resident of Kapuwada of Karimnagar town, hanged herself from the ceiling in the […]

Hyderabad: She Teams of the Cyberabad Police are becoming much accessible to victims of sexual harassment with the help of the popular messaging platform WhatsApp. The messaging service has become a bridge between the police and complainants, officials said, pointing out that in October, out of the 200 complaints, 121 complaints were received via WhatsApp. […]

Hyderabad: Harassment over phone and domestic violence formed a majority of complaints received from women in September in the Cyberabad Police Commissionerate limits. There were 39 complaints of phone harassment and 36 complaints of domestic violence during this period. As per data from Cyberabad She Teams officials, out of 182 complaints, apart from phone harassment […]

Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Cybercrime police arrested a man from Tamil Nadu on charges of harassing a woman through phone calls and WhatsApp messages on Wednesday. The arrested person was C Kabilan (52), a private employee from Vellore. According to the police, the victim and the suspect earlier lived in the same neighbourhood and were friends […]

Hyderabad: A man has approached the Banjara Hills police alleging a woman, with whom he became friends on Facebook, was threatening and blackmailing him. The 32-year-old complainant, a resident of Banjara Hills Road No.12, and working as an electrician had in July received a friend request from a profile with ‘Sakshi Varma’ as its name. […]

Mahabubabad: In a shocking incident, a woman had murdered her husband by chopping off his private parts at Vankudothuthanda of Tanamcherla revenue village of Marripeda mandal in the district on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Bhukya Bichya (53). It is alleged that Bichya’s wife Prameela had resorted to this crime as he had […]

Adilabad: A newly-married woman ended her life by consuming pesticide as she was unable to bear the alleged harassment of in-laws at Savargaon village in Neradigonda mandal on Friday. Her family members staged a rasta-roko on Hyderabad-Nagpur national highway, demanding action against the husband and in-laws of the woman. Neradigonda Sub-Inspector Bharath Suman said that […]

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The panel directed the State Government to obtain information on social schemes and take steps to examine the welfare schemes and file a report before the next hearing.

The deceased identified as G Swathi (29) was married to Ganesh two years ago and was depressed over the additional dowry demands and harassment