Ashok Kumar Tomar, who was posted in the central district, was suspended for allegedly threatening the family of the victim.
Defence witness Hemalata Karua claimed the event occurred two days before Staines and his two minor sons were burnt to death.
The Madras High Court Advocates Association has, meanwhile, said no lawyers will represent the accused in the case and sought 'strong punishment' for them.
Based on her complaint via email to Bengaluru police, the driver has been arrested and a case registered.
"Apart from other factors, the low conviction rate in the cases of rape or molestation is the biggest worry we have today. There is hardly any deterrence. Law should provide fast track courts to deal with such cases," says Girija Vyas, Chairperson, National Commission for Women.
An First Information Report has been registered against a senior Indian Police Service officer of Maharashtra after a model accused him of rape, police said on Thursday.
Ganguly, a coach employed with the Goa Swimming Association (GSA), is accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl who was training under him, a purported video of which went viral on social media.
The family members of the woman claimed that she had gone into depression after her alleged molester, a party colleague, was released on bail.
Additional Sessions Judge Raj Kumar Tripathi granted liberty to Pachauri to withdraw his plea and move a fresh application before the metropolitan magistrate having territorial jurisdiction of the case.
Like it or not, they're everywhere -- molesters who think they can get away by groping you or feeling up your child. With the Ruchika Girotra case, issues of molestation and child abuse have yet again reared their ugly heads.
A 19-year-old national player in Taekwondo and Wushu, who bravely fought off a man trying to molest her and then handed him over to the police, has been rewarded by the Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi for her bravery and courage.
Six months after an Uber driver allegedly raped a passenger in Delhi, another woman has complained that the cabbie who ferried her to Gurgaon tried to molest her. According to the police, driver identified as Vinod has been arrested.
It is "absurd to think" that such a brutality will go unpunished due to ownership of the vehicle, says Punjab deputy CM
Battling for life for five days, an Odisha teacher who was set ablaze for refusing to withdraw a complaint of molestation in Raygada district, died on Friday.
Officials interrogating Shiv Kumar Yadav, the accused in the rape of a 27-year-old woman in Delhi, term him as a "master of lies" and a "highly deceptive" person.
Claiming that at least 14 Bharatiya Janata Party workers were killed and nearly one lakh people fled their homes in post-poll violence in West Bengal, party president J P Nadda on Wednesday alleged that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's silence speaks of her involvement.
A woman was shot dead while she was resisting an alleged attempt of molestation and rape by suspected Garo National Liberation Army militants at Raja Rongat in South Garo Hills district of Meghalaya, police said on Wednesday.
The Haryana police, finally acting in the incident in which two sisters from Rohtak took on three molesters in a moving bus as the other passengers remained mute spectators, arrested all three youths.
The woman, Tara Yadav, also lodged a police complaint against four office-bearers of the party, including the district president, for allegedly beating her and molesting her.
If the Constitution permits shooting or hanging on spot, Delhi Police "will not refrain" from doing so to people who commit heinous crimes against women, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi said on Monday.
Showing courage, a 25-year-old woman journalist, who works with a leading electronic channel, not just fought back two men who molested her but also managed to catch one of them and handed him over to the police.
Atul Anjan claimed such ads promoted sexuality and ruined people's sensibilities.
The tourist season for Russians in Goa, who lead the pack of foreign tourists flocking India's beach capital every year, has opened on an unpleasant note this year following a spate of upsetting incidents prompting the Russian authorities to issue an advisory for their nationals.
Calling the rape of a 27-year-old executive as a "national shame," Government asked all states to stop operations of all web-based taxi services even as it emerged that the accused cabbie was a serial sexual offender and was allegedly involved in two previous rapes in 2011 in 2013.
A model and actress was found dead at her rented apartment in Mumbai's Versova area, police said on Sunday.
The woman alleged that Jarwal pushed her, following which she fell down, and abused her too before he left the spot.
Diocese agrees to revoke molester priest's return to the priesthood and keep him away from children.
Scarlett, 15, who was holidaying in Goa with her mother and siblings, was found dead on the popular beach on February 18, 2008. The cause of death, according to the autopsy report, was drowning.
On February 13, 2015 an FIR was registered against him and he was granted anticipatory bail in the case on March 21.
A week after a young executive was allegedly raped by Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav in New Delhi, Nidhi Shah, who lives in the United States has come forward, saying she had filed a complaint with the cab company against the same driver.
Over 86 lakh voters will decide the political fate of 284 candidates in this phase.
Lawyer Utsav Singh Bains claimed that he was offered Rs 1.5 crore to represent a former apex court woman employee and arrange a presser against the CJI at the Press Club of India in New Delhi.
Assange is currently under investigation in Sweden after two Swedish women separately accused him of rape and molestation.
The apex court had on August 29 taken note of the alleged controversial remarks of Khan that the gang rape case was a "political conspiracy".
The court premises witnessed high drama as the police forcefully took the duo into custody from the court complex.
Setting a precedent of sorts, lawyers' body in Odisha's Kendrapara has made up its mind to stay away from defending people facing trial in cases like rape, molestation and eve-teasing.
Controversies sell, and the latest series of incidents involving IPL have only added more drama to the T20 league rather than denting its brand equity, according to industry experts and advertisers.
Mulayam alleged that Prajapati was being treated like a "terrorist" and said he would take up the matter with the prime minister.
The minor girl's statement in the chargesheet submitted by police in the court on Wednesday alleged that she was abducted and kept forcibly in Chandigarh, Delhi and Goa by the main accused Nishan Singh, who is already facing at least 18 criminal cases.
A teenaged dalit girl was raped, a 21-year-old from the backward community molested while a doctor was accused of attempting to rape a woman patient in three separate case from different parts of Uttar Pradesh.
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