SC forms SIT to probe ‘objectively and fairly’ Chennai minor’s rape | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday constituted a three-member SIT, comprising DIG-rank IPS officer Saroj Kumar Thakur and women IPS officers Ayman Jamal and S Brinda, to “objectively and fairly” investigate on a day-to-day basis the September 29 sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl at Anna Nagar in Chennai.From among nine IPS officers, including three women…

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Contract staff to get maternity benefits too: Madras HC | India News – Times of India

CHENNAI: Contractual conditions cannot deny or offer less favourable maternity benefits to women employees, Madras high court has ruled, pointing out that Maternity Benefit Act would prevail over such contractual conditions.The first bench of chief justice K R Shriram and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy passed the order on Tuesday, on a plea moved by MRB Nurses’…

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