Tamil actress Shriya Shreya was allegedly molested in Tirumala temple, Andhra Pradesh by a man identified as a cleaner.
Five Indian Navy men have been arrested for allegedly molesting a young female banker before attacking her husband in a pub in suburban Khar in Mumbai, the police said on Monday.
Stopping short of alleging rapes in Bhatta Parsaul village in Mayawati-ruled Uttar Pradesh in May, the government on Thursday said an inquiry panel has found that women were not only molested and stripped but the police personnel did "even more than that."
Actress Preity Zinta has identified two witnesses to support her claims that her former boyfriend and co-owner of Kings XI Punjab Ness Wadia had abused and molested her .
A woman bus conductor was allegedly molested and manhandled by a 30-year-old passenger in Dombivli, Thane in the outskirts of Mumbai following a heated altercation over boarding the bus from the front exit, police said.
A 25-year-old was shot dead by two youths on a motorbike on the Ring Road in the Capital on Sunday evening, allegedly when she resisted their attempt to molest her.
Raja Mukerji was arrested following a complaint by a television actress.
Vijay Sharma asked the girl to come to his clinic, located at Khar, after the reporter, working on a story on cosmetic surgeries, had contacted him some days ago to know about a specific treatment procedure. "Sharma, who has two dispensaries, called her at his clinic in Khar and gave the necessary details to the girl. When she went ahead to thank him by shaking hands, he kissed her," said a senior police officer of the Khar police station.
A journalist was killed in police firing on the second day of the indefinite strike in Manipur called by a film body demanding the arrest of a Naga militant for allegedly molesting a film actress.
The government may file fresh cases against convicted former Haryana police chief S P S Rathore if those levelling allegations desire to register a statement against him before the magistrate, official sources said.
The case against Ahlawat was registered at Yamunanagar police station on June 8 on the charges of sexual harassment of the woman lawyer in 2002 when he was the then Superintendent of Police (SP) of Yamunanagar.
The charges were framed after Pachauri, who was present in the courtroom, pleaded not guilty and claimed trial.
The Uber cab driver accused of raping a 27-year-old executive has been a serial sexual offender and was out on bail in a rape case in 2013 besides being involved in similar case in 2011, police said on Tuesday calling him a 'big time rogue'.
Hilal Ahmed Bandey, one of the two accused identified, was arrested from Handwara by Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday night.
Mumbai police on Saturday launched a probe into alleged molestation of Bollywood actress Preity Zinta by her former boyfriend Ness Wadia and would soon record the statements of IPL CEO and others even as the industrialist rejected the charge as "false and baseless".
RTI activist and Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi on Tuesday claimed that the recent molestation of a girl in Guwahati, allegedly instigated by the reporter of a local news channel, may have been part of a greater conspiracy to tarnish the image of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and destabilise the state government.
'While some women allow themselves to be exploited so that they can climb up the ladder, there are many voiceless and silent people who get exploited by men in powerful positions.'
Several cases relating to car theft and other offences were slapped on Ruchika's brother Ashu Girhotra in 1993 but he was later acquitted of the charges by the courts. The family alleges that false cases were brought at Rathore's behest and that Ashu was harassed and tortured in custody.
The Centre on Tuesday promised to take action on the report of a fact-finding team which claimed that there were 15,000 incidents of post-poll violence in West Bengal in which 25 people were killed and 7,000 women were molested.
A 26-year-old British national, who is a dancer and works in Bollywood movies, was allegedly molested by a salesman when she and her two female compatriots, boarded an auto rickshaw in Mumbai's suburban Oshiwara on Monday.
In yet another incident of violence against northeastern people in national capital New Delhi, a girl and her cousin brother hailing from Manipur were allegedly attacked by two men who thrashed them, hurled racial abuses and molested the girl.
The video, which drew widespread condemnation, shows the men constantly molesting the two helpless women, who cry and plead with their captors to spare them the horror.
She alleged the incident occurred when she went to the medical officer on July 4 for a certificate.
The editor-in-chief of the local television news channel, which had videographed the molestation of a girl outside a pub in Guwahati, on Tuesday resigned after expressing doubts over impartial enquiry into the allegations that a journalist had instigated the incident.
Protests turned violent in Manipur as police burst tear gas shells to disperse agitated locals during the first day of the indefinite state-wide bandh called by a film body demanding the arrest of an NSCN-IM ultra who allegedly molested a Manipuri film actress at a public function
Maliwal met the mother and husband of the two victims who had been paraded naked, molested and one of them was gangraped. The mother of the woman who was gangraped also lost her husband and son who were trying to save the victim from the sexual assault, the statement said.
Action under the stringent National Security Act, which allows for detention without trial for one year, was also initiated against the accused, he added.
The special investigation team of Assam police set up to probe the July 9 molestation case in Guwahati will send raw footages of the incident recorded by a private channel for forensic test.
The Allahabad high court on Friday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to apprise it of the details of a case involving alleged molestation of a Dalit woman by a police sub-inspector inside premises of a police station in the state capital.
Mumbai Police on Tuesday recorded the statement of Bollywood actress Preity Zinta in connection with the molestation case she has registered against her former boyfriend and industrialist Ness Wadia.
There have been other several instances where women have stood up and taken on eve teasers and molesters. Rediff.com lists a few such cases where the victims have fiercely fought back.
The Centre on Tuesday sent a fresh reminder to former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika molestation case, asking it to respond to a show-cause notice on why his pension should not be reduced and his police medal not withdrawn for allegedly abusing power. The reminder was sent as Rathore has failed to respond to the notice sent to him on December 26, 2009 by the stipulated January 15 deadline, official sources said.
Sandeshkhali, a village in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, has been at the centre of a political storm for nearly a month and has witnessed unprecedented protests over allegations of sexual abuse by scores of women against a local Trinamool Congress leader.
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A section of Delhi University students and teachers along with student bodies including All India Students' Association and Students Federation of India, staged a protest outside the college campus.
A 28-year-old man, who tried to prevent some inebriated youth allegedly from molesting a woman co-passenger, was seriously injured after he was thrown out of a moving train at Cheruthurthi near Thrissur, police said on Thursday.
It said there is anger among Mizo youths, who are deeply anguished over the "barbaric and atrocious act of Meiteis" against Zo or Kuki ethnic people in Manipur.
The Delhi Commission for Women on Tuesday summoned St Stephen's principal Valson Thampu and college professor Satish Kumar after receiving a complaint from the research scholar, who has accused the latter of sexual harassment.
They were charged with dereliction of duty.
Classmates said that most would not mingle with her if she returns as she "suppressed reality."
