'We have been threatened. We have felt violated.' 'Everything is in danger if you don't give safe spaces to women.'
According to official figures, 121 cases of rape were registered so far this year while approximately 210 incidents of molestation were reported from various parts of the city. "We have arrested the alleged rapists in over 90 per cent of the cases. In majority of the cases, persons well known to the victims were behind the crime," a senior police official said. The Delhi police attribute the incidents of rape to a number of sociological factors.
SPS Rathore's counsel on Wednesday told a court in Chandigarh hearing his plea challenging his conviction in the Ruchika molestation case that Aradhana, the prime witness in the case, was planted against the former Haryana director general of police due to rivalry between two lawn tennis associations of Panchkula.
The Haryana Police FIR came four days after Ruchika's brother filed a complaint with the cops for abetment of suicide against Rathore.
The Congress on Friday accused Indian National Lok Dal president and former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala of trying to politicise Ruchika molestation case.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader and advocate G Devaraje Gowda, arrested for alleged molestation and rape, was on Saturday remanded to 14 days judicial custody.
A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Ahsanuddin Amanullah is likely to hear a plea filed by Capt. Rakesh Walia (retired) challenging an order of the Delhi high court which dismissed his petition.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court adjourned till August 9 the hearing on two FIRs filed in January against former Director General of Police SPS Rathore in the Ruchika molestation case charging him with serious offences like attempt to murder.
Taking suo motu cognisance of the Ruchika molestation case, the Punjab and Haryana high court has said it was a prime example of justice delayed is justice denied, while observing that the time has come to put on fast track cases against top policemen, bureaucrats and politicians. The court said the blame for the delay in the Ruchika case has to be shared by all concerned, including the justice delivery system.
The Central Bureau of Investigation will probe the fresh FIRs registered by the Haryana police against former Director General of Police S P S Rathore and others in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, according to a central government notification issued on Monday.
A 50-year-old man was allegedly shot dead in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district by an accused out on bail in a case of molestation lodged in 2018 against the victim's daughter, police said.
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to former Haryana director general of police SPS Rathore who was sentenced to an 18-month jail term in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.Ruchika, 14, a budding tennis player, had committed suicide three years after being molested by Rathore on August 12, 1990. A sessions court had on May 25 enhanced Rathore's jail term from six months to one-and-a-half years while allowing the plea of Central Bureau of Investigation.
The accused was identified and caught after the footage from more than a thousand CCTV cameras in and around the JNU campus was analysed, police said, adding Dolai was arrested while he was entering his rented house.
The death of a 14-year-old girl on Sunday raised questions about the manner in which the Delhi police treated rape and molestations cases.
Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said he was unhappy on the way charges were framed and the trial was conducted in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case and promised to look into what the government can do in the matter.
Former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika molestation case, has offered to undergo narco analysis test to clear what he claimed were "lies" being spread against him by the family of the girl and that of her friend Aradhana.
As the Ruchika molestation case fuelled a debate whether there is media hype, the judge who rejected the anticipatory bail of Haryana's former director general of police S P S Rathore said the role and importance of the media "cannot be denied or undermined" though sometimes it "oversteps its limits".
The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Central Bureau of Investigation on the appeal filed by former Haryana director general of police SPS Rathore, challenging his conviction and 18-month sentence in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. A bench of Justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan issued the notice after senior counsel U U Lalit submitted that Rathore was innocent and the entire investigation conducted against him was vitiated.
The Mumbai Crime Branch and the Uttar Pradesh police Special Task Force arrested Gautam along with Anurag Kashyap, Gyan Prakash Tripathi, Akash Srivastava and Akhilendra Pratap Singh on Sunday in Uttar Pradesh's Nanpara area, near the Nepal border.
A man allegedly assaulted and molested a woman in a moving local train in Mumbai and then snatched her bag and mobile phone, but was nabbed while running away at Churchgate railway station, the police said on Thursday.
The accused are between 18 and 25 years of age, they added. Over 11 police teams were looking into the technical details available and also visiting various sites in NCR to identify the suspects and investigate the case, the police said.
Disgraced former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, sentenced to 18-month prison term by a court in Chandigarh in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, on Tuesday again failed to get any relief as the Punjab and Haryana High Court deferred the hearing in his bail petition till Wednesday.
Thackeray took the accused to Patil at his Malabar Hill residence because he believes that all of them were innocent and had therefore surrendered, MNS sources said.
'If you are a strong-minded, opinionated woman, scars are inevitable.'
Bengaluru's new commissioner of police, Praveen Sood through a series of tweets, said his team was working on the case silently.
The actor, who has been in the US with his family for the past one month, said he will face the allegations legally and his lawyers will take care of the proceedings in the cases against him till he returns.
The man was identified as Rajiur Habibur Khan, 32, who was arrested by the police on January 2 on the basis of a verbal complaint made by the woman being molested. However, no women had officially filed any complaint against the accused hence, he was later released on bail.
The Badlapur school, where two young girls were allegedly sexually abused, preferred to cover up the crime instead of helping their parents file a police complaint, said Susieben Shah, chairperson of Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, on Wednesday.
With Jadavpur University students demanding the Vice Chancellor's resignation over a molestation case, an apology message attributed to the VC was on Saturday posted on the varsity website, which official sources denied claiming the website has been hacked.
With more than 300 sexual assault cases filed in Chennai under POCSO Act in the last three years, the Tamil Nadu government has decided to maintain a register of child sexual offenders. A Ganesh Nadar reports.
Nationalist Congress Party legislator and former Maharashtra minister Jitendra Awhad on Monday said he has decided to resign as member of the legislative assembly over "fake" cases registered against him by the police.
The aunt of the minor girl, who was allegedly raped by former block head Nawab Singh Yadav at a private college in Kannauj, has been arrested, police said on Wednesday.
Starting the debate on the second day of the ongoing monsoon session, Leader of Opposition Mukesh Agnihotri said the law and order situation in the state has deteriorated under the Bharatiya Janata Party government.
A Blue Corner Notice is issued by the international police cooperation body to collect additional information from its member countries about a person's identity, location or activities in relation to a crime.
During the college festival, 'Reverie', around 6:30 pm on February 6, groups of unruly, drunk men mobbed the entrances of the college and forced their way in.
According to the police, the images of women crying on the shoulders of policewomen and friends were not linked to incidents of molestation, but reactions to stampede when the police resorted to lathi-charge to control the crowd.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader B S Yediyurappa, facing a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act charge, returned to Bengaluru on Saturday and said he will appear before the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on June 17 for questioning.
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".
A PhD student of Jawaharlal Nehru University was allegedly molested while walking on the campus around midnight on Monday, sparking a protest by students and bringing into the spotlight again the issue of security in the vast complex.
West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Friday filed a defamation case against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the Calcutta high court, a day after she said that women complained to her saying that they were afraid to visit the Raj Bhavan because of the activities there, a source said.
