Moral Policing

In deeply conservative Saudi Arabia the religious police once elicited terror, chasing men and women out of malls to pray and berating anyone seen mingling with the opposite sex.

A girl was allegedly shamed and kicked out of a store by a shopkeeper because she was wearing jeans and not a burqa in a case of moral policing in Assam's Biswanath district last week.

A bitter battle is being fought on Twitter between Karnataka's current and former Chief Ministers with Siddaramaiah slamming Basavaraj Bommai for his statement in Mangaluru that moral policing is "action and reaction" caused by "hurt sentiments".

Hitting back at Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai for accusing him of having got Hindu activists killed during his regime, Congress leader Siddaramaiah said he can file defamation case against CM, but was just advising him to correct himself.

The video of the incident was shared widely on social media and messaging platforms with a watermark of "National Defence Force" written in Kannada. Their grouse was against a "non-Muslim" man having a "woman in burkha" ride pillion on his motorbike.

Workers in the Afghan capital Kabul replaced signs for the country's women's ministry with those for the Taliban's moral police on Friday, as female former employees of the department said they had been locked out of the building.

A 19-year-old student in Assam who wore shorts to an examination was forced to wrap a curtain around her legs to cover up before sitting for the exam. Outrage over the incident has spurred an inquiry by the Assam Agricultural University.

In an alleged incident of moral policing, a 44-year-old woman and her 23-year-old son were recently attacked by a man while they were having food inside their car on a busy roadside in Kerala's Kollam district.

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh resigned today citing "moral grounds" hours after the Bombay High Court ordered a preliminary CBI investigation into former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh's allegations of corruption against him.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, amid national outrage over the dead-of-night cremation by Uttar Pradesh police of the woman who died of horrific injuries after being gang-raped and tortured, said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had "no moral right" to continue in office.

A police constable in Mumbai has produced a video song aiming to spread awareness about the fight against coronavirus and also to boost morale amid crisis.

"Oh God, okay. I am going to get back to my low morale self," said Karan Johar

As Indore, a COVID-19 hotspot in Madhya Pradesh, fights the highly infectious illness, the city's police chief is seen in a video singing for his team, trying to boost their morale and praising them for their efforts amid the spurt in cases.

Home Minister Amit Shah, replying to a discussion in parliament on last month's violence in Delhi, hit back at the Congress saying it had no right to point fingers at any party, given its track record.

The students have said the curfew timings in various hostels is "all arbitrary and only a ploy to continue surveillance and moral policing".

In deeply conservative Saudi Arabia the religious police once elicited terror, chasing men and women out of malls to pray and berating anyone seen mingling with the opposite sex.

A girl was allegedly shamed and kicked out of a store by a shopkeeper because she was wearing jeans and not a burqa in a case of moral policing in Assam's Biswanath district last week.

A bitter battle is being fought on Twitter between Karnataka's current and former Chief Ministers with Siddaramaiah slamming Basavaraj Bommai for his statement in Mangaluru that moral policing is "action and reaction" caused by "hurt sentiments".

Hitting back at Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai for accusing him of having got Hindu activists killed during his regime, Congress leader Siddaramaiah said he can file defamation case against CM, but was just advising him to correct himself.

The video of the incident was shared widely on social media and messaging platforms with a watermark of "National Defence Force" written in Kannada. Their grouse was against a "non-Muslim" man having a "woman in burkha" ride pillion on his motorbike.

Workers in the Afghan capital Kabul replaced signs for the country's women's ministry with those for the Taliban's moral police on Friday, as female former employees of the department said they had been locked out of the building.

A 19-year-old student in Assam who wore shorts to an examination was forced to wrap a curtain around her legs to cover up before sitting for the exam. Outrage over the incident has spurred an inquiry by the Assam Agricultural University.

In an alleged incident of moral policing, a 44-year-old woman and her 23-year-old son were recently attacked by a man while they were having food inside their car on a busy roadside in Kerala's Kollam district.

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh resigned today citing "moral grounds" hours after the Bombay High Court ordered a preliminary CBI investigation into former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh's allegations of corruption against him.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, amid national outrage over the dead-of-night cremation by Uttar Pradesh police of the woman who died of horrific injuries after being gang-raped and tortured, said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had "no moral right" to continue in office.

A police constable in Mumbai has produced a video song aiming to spread awareness about the fight against coronavirus and also to boost morale amid crisis.

"Oh God, okay. I am going to get back to my low morale self," said Karan Johar

As Indore, a COVID-19 hotspot in Madhya Pradesh, fights the highly infectious illness, the city's police chief is seen in a video singing for his team, trying to boost their morale and praising them for their efforts amid the spurt in cases.

Home Minister Amit Shah, replying to a discussion in parliament on last month's violence in Delhi, hit back at the Congress saying it had no right to point fingers at any party, given its track record.

The students have said the curfew timings in various hostels is "all arbitrary and only a ploy to continue surveillance and moral policing".