Indian American jailed for sexual abuse on plane

A 65-year-old Indian American has been sentenced to a year in federal prison and fined $10,000 for sexually abusing a woman while she slept on board a flight from Hong Kong to New York. Ramesh Advani of Berkley Heights, New Jersey was sentenced on Monday in US District Court in New York. He had previously pleaded guilty before a US District Judge to abusive sexual conduct.

Advani will be under five year suprevision oder after his relase. He was arrested last May when a Continental Airlines flight he boarded in Hong Kong landed at Liberty International Airport in New York.

According to the court documents, during the flight, Advani reached under the blanket of a woman who was asleep in the seat next to him and sexually abused her.

Two passengers witnessed the assault and began kicking the woman's chair to wake her up. She then alerted the flight's crew members.

The case was then heard in federal court because the flight was over international waters at the time of the incident.

News Reported by AR for Newsvision

Peace in Parliament after days of disruption

Peace finally returned to parliament Thursday after days of disruption by opposition MPs on various issues. Both houses of Parliament were able to conduct their respective question hours without any disturbances. Important papers related to the functioning of various government departments and ministers were also laid on the table. The monsoon session of the Parliament had started on a stormy note on August 1 with opposition members concerning the government on issues like alleged irregularities in the conduct of the Common Wealth Games, rising prices crackdown on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP activists in the capital. In the first 10 days of the session, that ends Sep 8, question hours in both houses had been disrupted almost every day. The number of questions answered orally as against the number that were listed to be answered till Wednesday were 14 as against 160 in Lok Sabha and 18 as against 160 in the Rajya Sabha. Of the 32 bills listed for introduction at the beginning of the session, only five have been introduced so far. Thirty-five bills listed for passing but none was passed till Wednesday. However, as peace returned Thursday, the government was hopeful that the houses would function smoothly. The logjam ended after a series of meetings Wednesday between the government and the BJP. The left had alleged that disruption of parliament work, delaying discussion on important issues like corruption and prices, was a joint effort of the BJP and Congress. The BJP and Congress have joined hands to delay the discussion on corruption and price rise. Quite frankly the Congress is benefiting from this, CPI-M leader Bindra Karat said.

The BJP and other opposition parties have been targeting the government demanding the resignation of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit over irregularities in the Games and also that of Home Minister P. Chidambaram over the police crackdown.

 News reported by SM

Another teenage girl raped in Uttar Pradesh

A teenage dalit girl was raped by two men in Anjrauli village of the district. The girl, who had gone to attend a religious function in her neighborhood on Wednesday was alleged to be abducted and raped by Ramesh Yadav and Mahesh Yadav in Khandasa area of the district, as per the police report.

They took her to the outskirts of the city and raped her, who was a class 10 student and her father is a laborer in Delhi. An FIR has been registered against the accused.

There has been another incident where a 16 year old girl was allegedly raped by a owner of photo studio in Fakharpur area in Bahraich. The Superintendent of Police Shailendra Pati Tripathi said the studio owner was absconding.

The state had witnessed an alarming increase in the rape cases in the city early this week, and prompting the Union Ministry to seek a report from the Uttar Pradesh government on the prevailing law and order situation in the state.

News reported by News Vision - Online News Paper