The accused has been apprehended, a senior police officer said.
The Assam police on Friday arrested journalist Gaurav Jyoti Neog in connection with the molestation of a girl on the streets of Guwahati on July 9.
The All India Tennis Association, often accused of being lax in dealing with age fraud, had no clear answers to what transpired at CLTA.
A 32-year-old model on Tuesday filed a complaint of molestation against Mika Singh even as the Bollywood singer lodged a counter-complaint alleging extortion.
Fresh facts have emerged in the case of a minor girl molested in a bus in New Delhi with police arresting her teenaged brother for allegedly raping her six months ago and molesting her thereafter.
A 14-year-old girl who was gang-raped allegedly by two youth earlier this month in the neighbouring Raigad district, was also molested by a local Nationalist Congress Party leader on the very same day of the incident, the police said.
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Can a woman be booked for molesting another woman under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code? This observation was made by the Bombay high court while hearing a petition filed by a 78-year-old woman seeking to quash a molestation case filed against her by a 55-year-old lady.
A woman was molested by miscreants in the presence of her father who was beaten up near the main market in Suri, Birbhum district headquarters town on Monday which led to street protests, police sources said.
A minor student of Don Bosco School at Yerwada in Pune was molested allegedly by its vice-principal, who was arrested on Tuesday after public outrage and protests outside the educational institution.
The JD-S supremo reiterated that his grandson should be given the harshest punishment under the law "if found guilty".
A police constable on Thursday allegedly molested a college girl inside a moving bus in Samba district, triggering protests by locals who also blocked a highway demanding action against him.
The chairperson of the National Commission for Women Mamata Sharma on Wednesday recommended Assam government to provide government job for the victim of July 9 Guwahati molestation episode besides proper counseling and rehabilitation.
Chaitali Wasnick, a 24-year-old photographer, took to Facebook to write about the ordeal she faced.
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Zinta's lawyer had said she was willing to settle the matter if Wadia was ready to apologise.
The Indian-American woman, who was allegedly molested by Australian cricketer Luke Pomersbach, on Saturday, served a legal notice on Siddhartha Mallya asking him to apologise withing 48 hours for casting aspersions on her character or face legal action.
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In her plea, the victim claimed that a mere reading of the inquiry report with regard to the illegal access of the devices indicates that the authority carrying out the probe "never conducted a fair, free and complete" investigation as directed by the high court.
Investigations into the molestation of an American woman allegedly by an Australian cricketer are "almost complete" and a charge sheet will be filed in the court "very soon", police said on Tuesday.
A teenaged girl was allegedly molested by a conductor in a bus in New Delhi late Saturday night, close on the heels of the brutal gang-rape of a young woman.
Abhinav Gupta, 32, was accused of molesting the 14-year-old girl in Anand Vihar area, police sources said.
The director of a private school has been arrested for allegedly molesting an 18-year-old girl student in Jobner town in Jaipur, the police said on Monday.
The Delhi Poice has confirmed the molestation of the cabin crew by Air India pilots Commnader Ranvir Arora and his co-pilot Aditya Chopra. This was confirmed by Joint Commissioner of Police (Operations) Satyendra Garg according to Delhi Police PRO, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Rajan Bhagat.
In an obvious bid to divert the attention of people from the mysterious death of a jailed medical officer in the state capital, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Friday expelled her party Member of Legislative Assembly Shahnawaz Rana from the primary membership of the party. Rana has been expelled for his alleged involvement in case of attempted rape and molestation of two women.
A sub inspector of the Maharashtra police has been arrested for allegedly molesting a girl on board the Patna-Kurla Lokmanya Tilak Express train near Allahabad, Railway police sources said on Saturday.
Expressing concern over the delay in delivering justice in the Ruchika molestation case, Communist Party of India - Marxist Rajya Sabha member Brinda Karat on Tuesday said the 'infirmities' in India's legal system should be reformed so that timely justice can be given to those seeking it.
The complainant woman and the accused, who is married to her sister for the last six years, were in love with each other and planned the incident to force her parents to give consent to their marriage, thinking that no other man would ask for her hand after the incident.
The 17-year old girl travelling with her uncle in a three-tier AC compartment raised an alarm at 4 am when the armyman was making an attempt to molest her as the Rajdhani Express was passing between Lumding and Chaparmukh stations, a NF Railway spokesman said.
Eleven accused in the sensational G S Road molestation case in Guwahati on July 9, including prime accused Amarjyoti Kalita, were convicted on Friday while four others acquitted.
Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, who is also co-owner of Kings XI Punjab cricket team, has filed a police complaint against her former boyfriend and businessman Ness Wadia, alleging that he molested, abused and threatened her inside Wankhede stadium in South Mumbai.
Indian-American fashion designer Anand Jon, facing a 59 years prison sentence in California for sexually abusing aspiring models, has pleaded guilty in a federal court in New York to molesting a woman whom he allegedly lured with promise of modelling work.
Delhi Police is looking into complaints of students that they were molested and verbally abused by some people when they were protesting against the visit of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital recently.
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.
"We are losing our values. When a man goes and molests a woman, he forgets that he has a sister and mother back home," she said.
Mohaniya, an MLA from Sangam Vihar, was arrested on charges of molestation and sexual harassment amidst high drama when he was addressing a press conference, triggering an angry reaction from Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of declaring an 'emergency' in Delhi.
Kumaraswamy alleged that 25,000 pen drives were distributed in the entire state, and cited a report in a regional daily to support his claim.
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