Upholding a lower court order, the Kerala high court sentenced prime accused Dharmarajan to life imprisonment, while acquitting seven others in the sensational Suriyanelli rape case.
The matter came to light after the minor girl's father submitted a complaint with the police regarding the incident that took place under the Jubilee Hills police station limits on May 28.
The MLA's son was arrested on the directions of a special court hearing cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
The CBI began its questioning of the UP lawmaker around 5 am on Friday.
A Class 9 student was allegedly raped inside her house in Ghaziabad by four boys -- three of them known to her from school, with the police launching an investigation into the matter, officials said on Wednesday.
The complainant-witness, a former sanitation worker, has claimed that he worked in Dharmasthala between 1995 and 2014, and that he was forced to bury a number of bodies, including those of women and minors, in Dharmasthala.
The RJD suspended Yadav from the party a day after his arrest warrant was issued.
Be it the new anti-rape law or the repeated strictures passed by the apex court about ensuring safety of women, nothing seems to have any impact on the mindset of the Uttar Pradesh cops, who continue to treat the female gender with utter contempt.
The special investigation team of Thane police has arrested two more persons from Navi Mumbai in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a 15-year-old girl, an official said on Friday.
The father of the man arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl in Ujjain on Friday demanded capital punishment for his son, while the local bar association appealed that no lawyer should defend him in the court.
Six people, including a minor, were arrested for allegedly raping a 19-year-old college student for several days and videographing the act in Odisha's Cuttack district, police said on Friday.
Prajapati and two other convicts Ashok Tiwari and Ashish Shukla were present in the court when the judgment was pronounced.
Five minor Hindu girls were allegedly sexually exploited and blackmailed by Muslim accused in the Beawar district of Rajasthan.
The trial court had awarded him the maximum punishment of life term with a rider that the convict will remain in jail for "remainder of his natural biological life" and also imposed an exemplary fine of Rs 25 lakh on him to be paid within a month.
Self-styled godman Asaram's son Narayan Sai was on Thursday remanded in 14-day judicial custody by a Surat court in a rape case filed against him by one of the two city-based sisters.
As many as 33,356 incidents of rape were reported during 2018 involving 33,977 victims, an average 89 rapes daily. In 2017, 32,559 rape cases were registered, while in 2016 the number stood at 38,947, the data stated. Overall, 72.2 per cent of rape victims were above 18 years and 27.8 per cent below 18, the data stated.
The bail order will be applicable from May 4.
A special court has declined to discharge a police officer from charges of failing to record a rape complaint against BJP ex-MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in 2017 by a minor victim, officials said.
The order was passed by Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra on a revision petition filed by two persons who moved the court, challenging the order of a Special Judge of Kasganj by which the court had summoned them under Section 376 of IPC apart from other sections.
Delhi police arrest 13 individuals, including minors, for the murder and sexual assault of a 14-year-old boy, allegedly in retaliation for informing on a rival gang member.
A month after a five-year-old was allegedly gang-raped in east Delhi, a city court on Tuesday asked the Delhi police what action it has taken on a complaint seeking registration of a first information report against police personnel for their purported irregularities and sought a status report by May 29.
Justice Girish Kathpalia rejected the man's claim of having consensual relations with the girl pointing out that even consent was not lawful when it comes to a minor.
Legal experts had deplored the observation of the Allahabad high xourt on what constitutes a rape charge, calling for a restraint by judges and underlining the drop in public confidence in the judiciary due to such statements.
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More was imprisoned for 12 years.
The quantum of punishment will be announced later on Monday.
The charge sheet was committed to sessions court in Kathua which has fixed January 24 as the next date of hearing in the case.
The trial in the rape case of a five-year-old child allegedly involving two youths on Wednesday commenced in a Delhi court with the girl's mother bursting into tears during her testimony.
A bench headed by Justice Prathiba M Singh suspended the sentence for the time being and directed that Sengar be admitted to AIIMS-Delhi for his medical evaluation and must remain in the capital once discharged.
In further embarrassment to the Haryana government, two rape cases involving minor girls were reported from Hisar and Bhiwani districts. Police said a 16-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by four youths on November 3 in Hisar.
The Centre on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court not to hear this week the pleas on the vexed legal question of whether a husband should enjoy immunity from prosecution for the offence of rape if he forces his wife, who is not a minor, to have sex.
Not satisfied with the panchayat's decision, the girl's family lodged a police complaint, officials said.
Eleven men were arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl hailing from Odisha on different occasions in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, police said on Monday.
A special court in India has sentenced a man to "triple death sentence" for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl last year. The court deemed the crime "rarest of rare" and declared the accused "extremely cruel and bestial." His mother and sister were also sentenced to two years in prison for helping to cover up the crime.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that senior IPS officer Pronab Mohanty, who is heading the SIT probing the allegations of mass burials in Dharmasthala, will be replaced if he goes on central government duty.
Ahsan Ullah Khan, the additional district and session judge of the MP-MLA court in Sonbhadra, also imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on Gond which would be used in the rape survivor's rehabilitation.
A special court in Mumbai framed charges against 19 accused for their alleged complicity in the attack on a group of 17 members of the minority community on March 3, 2002.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar accuses the BJP of politicizing the Dharmasthala 'multiple murders and burials' case, criticizing their protests and questioning their motives.
The data compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau showed that the crime rate in 2023 stood at 39.9 per one-lakh child population, in comparison to 36.6 in 2022.
To demand justice for the eight-year-old girl who was gang-raped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir and the teenager in UP's Unnao, the Congress party led a candelight vigil to India Gate in New Delhi.
