According to reports, the police assaulted Francis Ogbonna, a cameraman with Arise Television, while he was interviewing protesters at a rally calling for the dissolution of SARS, a police subunit.

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha police have started imposing section 279 (rash and negligent driving) of the IPC against drunken drivers to inflate the overall conviction rate in the state, which is at the bottom ...

Bengaluru: The Kalaburagi bench of the Karnataka high court held that a Magistrate cannot take cognisance of a bigamy offence ...

She described her detention as harrowing, involving intimidation, harassment, and torture, raising concerns about press freedom and journalists’ safety in Nigeria. The International Press Centre (IPC) ...

The cases will be registered under Section 283 of the IPC, which deals with danger or obstruction in a public way or line of navigation. This provision empowers the police to seize vehicles The ...

The International Press Centre, Lagos, has condemned the alleged assault of Daniel Ojukwu, a journalist with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, by policemen at the Ikeja Police Command on ...

The International Press Centre’s Centre for Safety and Protection of Journalists has condemned the attack on journalists covering the Kano State governorship election petitions tribunal. Two ...

The International Press Centre, IPC, through its Safety and Protection of Journalists, SPJ, Hub, on Tuesday condemned the arrest and detention of Mrs Adenike Atanda, wife of investigative journalist, ...

Police booked R Boominathan, husband of Kunnalur panchayat president, for cutting down two palm trees without permission. He did so during maintenance work of a crematorium. The trees were on land ...

The Bengaluru traffic police have decided to take a tougher stance on traffic violations by booking cases under stringent sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) instead of relying on mere fines ...