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Dharna

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Rs 20,000 fine for dharnas, Rs 10,000 for anti-national slogans: JNU issues new rules for code of conduct on campus

ANI - 12 December, 2023

Punishments have been listed for 28 types of "misconduct", including blockage, indulging in gambling, unauthorised occupation of hostel rooms, use of abusive and derogatory language and committing forgery.

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Rajasthan: Police lathicharge traders and members of Hindu outfits over protest against an attack on kins of VHP leaders

OpIndia Staff - 4 June, 2022

Tensions erupted in Baran, Rajasthan after police lathi-charged shopkeepers and members of various Hindu outfits who were staging a sit-in to protest against the attack on two shopkeepers

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Odisha: Groom absconds on wedding day, bride stages Dharna outside his house, threatens suicide

OpIndia Staff - 23 November, 2021

A bride who was ditched by the groom on her wedding day has sat in protest outside the groom's house, threatening that if her husband doesn't take her to his home, she will commit suicide.

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Gujarat Congress MLA, who was earlier booked for bank robbery, sleeps outside health officers cabin to ‘protest’ against ‘shortage of medical supplies’

OpIndia Staff - 26 April, 2021

Gujarat Congress MLA, Jasu Patel staged a ‘dharna’ by sleeping in front of a health officers cabin in Aravali to register his protest on the shortage of essential medical supplies needed to treat Covid-19.

Politics

Neighbour of Arvind Kejriwal has approached the Delhi High Court against Delhi Police: Read why

OpIndia Staff - 11 December, 2020

Neighbour of Arvind Kejriwal has now approached Delhi HC against Delhi Police for allowing mayors and councillors sit on dharna outside his house

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‘Tere baap ke baap ke baap ko bhi baat karni padegi’: SP MLA Abu Azmi humiliates senior lady police officer, demands her suspension

OpIndia Staff - 28 May, 2020

Samajwadi party leader Abu Azmi has alleged that the officer insulted him when he questioned her about the police's apathy towards migrant workers.

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Ex-BJP leader Yashwant Sinha claims being arrested, was sitting on dharna amid lockdown

OpIndia Staff - 18 May, 2020

Yashwant Sinha demanded that armed forces and paramilitary forces be deployed to help migrant workers reach their homes.

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Proctor of Aligarh Muslim University shown a shoe, called a pimp by students sitting on dharna against CAA and NRC

OpIndia Staff - 17 January, 2020

AMU students protesting against CAA-NRC abuse proctor by showing shoe and calling him pimp

Law

Supreme Court withdraws interim protection granted to ex-Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar, opens door for CBI’s custodial interrogation

OpIndia Staff - 17 May, 2019

Rajeev Kumar is accused of shielding the accused and destroying evidence in the chit fund scam. Mamata Banerjee had sat on a 72-hour long dharna in Kumar's defence in February.

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