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A case has been registered against Mahua Moitra under Section 79 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS)...
Delhi Police on Sunday registered an FIR against Trinamool Congress (TMC) parliamentarian Mahua Moitra for her derogatory social media post on National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma...
Moitra has been booked under Section 79 (word, gesture or act intended to insult modesty of woman) under the newly-enacted Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which came into effect on July 1, replacing the British-era Indian Penal Code (IPC)..
A day after her visit, a video emerged on microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) that showed Sharma walking, with her hands free while someone walked behind her holding an umbrella, an action which seemed insensitive to many..
