Vishakha, a student in a Sarvodaya Public School in a Uttar Pradesh village, was lured by the accused. Her body was later found in a sugarcane field.
Prominent names such as Kamal Hassan, Supriya Sule and Omar Abdullah condemned the Kathua rape and asked the PM to speak up.
A teenager, who assisted a painter in allegedly murdering his 27-year-old partner and dumping her body in a suitcase at CST railway station on September 26, has been arrested, the police said on Sunday.
"Is being part of Modi's 'political family' a 'guarantee of protection' for criminals?" Rahul Gandhi asked.
Enraged over the heinous crime, the victim's family blocked the Etah-Farrukhabad road, while opposition parties slammed the Yogi Adityanath government for the 'sudden spurt' in rape cases.
The girl was shifted to Delhi's Safdarjung hospital after her condition deteriorated and she died on Monday.
A 13-year-old girl allegedly killed her younger sister with the help of her boyfriend and aunt and burnt the deceased's face with acid and chopped off fingers to conceal the identity in Bihar's Vaishali district, a senior police officer said on Thursday.
Sirf Ek Banda Kaafi Hai reminds us that we haven't run out of instances where even the most vulnerable can secure justice against the mighty, applauds Utkarsh Mishra.
"Vinay Kumar, alias Lambu, and a teenager have been held in connection with the case. The matter is a fallout of a one-side love affair. "The accused gave some pesticide with water to the three girls," Lucknow Range IG Laxmi Singh told reporters in Unnao.
Angered by the killing in the lock-up, a mob attacked the Kotkhai police station.
To escape charges in a rape case, a man in Tamil Nadu commits a murder.
The government on Friday turned down the opposition's demand in Rajya Sabha for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the rape and murder of three minor girls in Maharashtra's Bhandara district, saying the Centre does not intervene in state affairs.
After the CBI found no evidence of murder or sexual assault in its probe into the death of the two Badaun girls, family members of the two teenage cousins on Thursday said they will move the Supreme Court and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for justice.
Elaborate security arrangements have been made in and around the court and in Kathua in view of the pronouncement of the judgement, officials said Sunday.
D'Souza has admitted to having consensual sex with Scarlette, while insisting that there was no force used. However, as per India law, sex with a minor girl, even consensual, amounts to rape. Scarlette was 15-years-old when she died.
Six people were arrested on Thursday in connection with the rape and murder of the two girls.
The body was found with a piece of cloth stuffed inside the mouth.
The girl had suffered severe injuries on her neck, face, head and private parts in the incident and is undergoing treatment in Indore.
One of the men held earlier for the crime is an alleged sex offender who targeted children in recent years.
Several girls were sexually assaulted in a shelter home run by Thakur in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. He was convicted under various sections of IPC, POCSO Act and Juvenile Justice Act.
However, police have not booked anybody specifically under the charge.
A violent stir took place in Kaliaganj after the body of a girl was found in a canal, following which the local police station was razed by angry locals and a man was shot dead allegedly in police firing.
The NCPCR asked Facebook for taking appropriate action against the Instagram profile of Gandhi over violation of provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, and the Indian Penal Code, and demanded the removal of the video from the platform.
Santokben, arrested two days ago, will be taken to the Directorate of Forensic Sciences at Gandhinagar for the polygraph (lie-detector) test on Tuesday, the official said.
The top court also held that medical opinion regarding the age of an accused cannot be 'brushed aside' in the absence of statutory proof on the same issue.
The police are yet to identify the girl.
Facing flak for "failure" of police to make headway in the probe of alleged rape and murder of three minor sisters at Murmadi in Bhandara district, Maharashtra government on Monday announced that case would be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Gang rape and murder charges were ordered to be framed on Thursday by a juvenile justice board against the minor accused of brutally raping along with five adults a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in New Delhi on December 16.
He said the BAJ had told the media repeatedly that Wednesday's bandh was not on the Kathua rape-and-murder issue as the case is in court now.
CBI officer V K Shukla, who is probing the death of Jharkhand Judge Uttam Anand, is among 15 officers of the agency awarded the 'Union Home Minister's Medal for Excellence in Investigation' for the year 2021, officials said Thursday.
The judge started his order with the couplet from Ghalib's ghazal -- Pinha tha daam-e-sakht qareeb ashiyaan ke, udhne hi nahi paye the ki girftar hum hue.
'Indian consciousness was raped in Unnao and then in Kathua'
The Friday morning encounter of all the four accused in the brutal rape-and-murder case of a 25-year-old woman veterinarian last month in Hyderabad triggered a nationwide debate on justice delivery, with one side supporting it as speedy justice and the other raising concerns over 'extra-judicial' measures. Here is a look at the legal status of some rape cases which shook the country.
The quantum of punishment will be announced later on Monday.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that the Juvenile Justice Board be informed not to pronounce its verdict on the alleged role of a minor in the December 16 gangrape and murder case, till it decides a PIL seeking fresh interpretation of the term 'juvenile'.
The court also framed charges for destruction of evidence and under Section 328 (causing hurt by poisoning with an intent to hurt) of the RPC.
A list of watchable Hindi legal shows and films on OTT, in order of release.
A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sachin Datta issued notice to National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCOCR) and granted it four weeks to file a counter-affidavit in response to the petition.
