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Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal said Praveen, 30, was beaten up and paraded naked after she helped the panel raid a house in Narela a day earlier. "A brave lady beaten and paraded naked in Delhi by the liquor mafia. Her video is made -- all because she dared to raise her voice against crime and helped the DCW catch people selling illegal liquor in their home 50 metres from the police chowki. Is there any law and order in Delhi? Shame DelhiPolice," Maliwal tweeted. Maliwal summoned Rohini Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajneesh Gupta to appear before it regarding the incident. Gupta, however, told that the woman was not paraded naked but that her clothes were torn during the assault. He said a case had been registered and two women taken into custody. He tweeted: "Utterly shocking and shameful that this is happening in India. I urge honorable Lt Governor to immediately intervene and take action against local policemen and ensure everyone...

At least 15 women died and five were wounded in a stampede during a food distribution operation on Sunday morning in rural Morocco, government officials said. The victims were crushed as hundreds of people, mostly women, gathered to collect baskets of food at the market of a small town, Sidi Boulaalam, according to news accounts. The town is about 40 miles from the coastal city of Essaouira. In the aftermath of the stampede, clothes and other personal items were left scattered across the ground. It is unclear what led to the stampede. The Moroccan Interior Ministry, which reported the death toll, said it had opened an investigation. The donor who organized the food distribution has not been publicly identified. At the market on Sunday, many who were injured were taken to hospitals in Essaouira and Marrakesh. A witness cited by local news reports said the donor had been distributing flour, cooking oil and sugar when the stampede broke out. Still, photos that emerged from t...

Democrat Doug Jones has opened up an eight-point lead in the US Alabama Senate race amid multiple sexual abuse allegations against Republican Roy Moore, according to a poll released Thursday. Jones leads Moore by 50 to 42% among likely voters in the special election to fill the seat left vacant by Jeff Sessions when he became US attorney general, now less than a month away. Most Republican voters, 78%, still say they plan to cast their ballots for Moore, but a substantial minority 13% say they are voting for Jones. A broad 91% of Democrats say they're voting for Jones versus only 3% voting for Moore. Similarly, Moore wins only 81% of Trump voters versus 91% of Clinton voters who say they are voting for Jones. Jones has opened up a wide 58% to 32% lead among female likely voters. Meanwhile, 54% of women who are registered to vote had an unfavorable view of Moore, up from 39% in October.  Moore, however, maintains majority support among white evangelicals (73%), ...