The president said women safety is a very serious issue and a lot of work has been done on this but much remains to be done.
Wrestlers narrate instances of sexual favours demand, sexual harassment, inappropriate touching
A teacher was on Friday arrested for the alleged sexual assault of a six-year-old girl at a school in Bangalore, as protests erupted with parents demanding answers from the institution which was found to have flouted safety norms.
The court also directed the CBI to continue assessing threat perception to the life and security of the survivor and her family members every three months.
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.
An eight-year-old girl, who was sleeping outside her hut, was allegedly abducted and raped by a youth in outer Delhi's Kirari area, police said on Tuesday.
Asim Nizam Shaikh, a resident of Khergam town of Navsari district, was arrested on Tuesday from Vasai near Mumbai 'in a case of love jihad', as per a police statement.
The case caused a huge embarrassment to the BJP government
On the complaint of the boy's parents, a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act has been registered against unknown persons at the Thakupukur Police Station, a senior officer of the Kolkata police said.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra expressed solidarity with protesting wrestlers after meeting them at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Saturday and accused the government of 'protecting' WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is facing allegations of sexual harassment levelled by women grapplers.
CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said the agency took over the probe after a notification from the central government was received on Friday.
The arrested accused were identified as Sehbaz and his brother Arbaz, who pulled the dupatta. The third accused, Faisal, ran over the girl. It is yet to be ascertained if there is any connection between the accused brothers and Faisal, the officials said.
'Whatever directions will come from the Supreme Court, the Union of India will welcome them'
The girl and a man were taken into custody on June 21 in connection with a child marriage case.
It also suggested that the IPC provision related to adultery should be retained in the Sanhita by making it gender neutral "for the sake of protecting the institution of marriage".
In the third such incident in the past four months, a three-year-old girl student was allegedly sexually abused inside a private school in Bangalore.
Protesting wrestlers, including Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia, were detained by Delhi Police on Sunday after they breached the security cordon while trying to move towards the new Parliament building, where a women's Mahapanchayat was planned for the day.
Pulkit was fighting for his life when he decided to make Bhakshak.
The post-mortem reports of the two Dalit minor sisters who were found hanging from a tree in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district confirmed that they were raped and strangulated, the police said on Thursday.
The expelled BJP MLA is accused of raping the woman in 2017. He is also facing murder charges as the woman was hit by a truck in July. Her two aunts were killed in the accident.
A 13-year-old girl got pregnant after allegedly being raped repeatedly by her brother-in-law, who is a PhD scholar in Jawahar Lal Nehru University and lives in South Delhi's Vasant Vihar area, police said.
The mother of the two girls alleged that they were murdered and accused three youths from the neighbouring village in Nighasan police station limits of abducting and killing them.
The Jodhpur police on Wednesday charged self-styled godman Asaram Bapu with wrongful confinement and rape of a 16-year-old girl, more than two months after he was arrested in the sexual assault case.
A station house officer was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl who was left outside his police station in Uttar Pradesh's Lalitpur by four men after they raped her for three days, officials said on Wednesday.
The incident comes days after a 19-year-old college student was allegedly gang-raped in Bhopal, which triggered public outrage against the police.
The apex court also asked the the high courts to instruct the trial courts not to grant unnecessary adjournments during trial of cases.
Two minors were brutally gangraped in the city, incidents which comes close on the heels of the rape of a four-year-old girl in northwest Delhi last week.
We celebrate January 26 as Republic Day because that's the day on which we adopted the Constitution in 1950. Yet, in the days preceding and following Republic Day 2021, three different courts violated the Constitutional rights of citizens, observes Jyoti Punwani.
Sources said her platelet count is low and she is admitted at the neurosurgery ICU of the hospital. "She is in the neurosurgery ICU currently and has to be operated, but then her platelet count is very low. Her condition is being closely monitored. She has a severe head injury," sources told PTI.
The 13 arrested in connection with the death of the Jadavpur University fresher allegedly due to ragging and sexual molestation at the hostel will not be allowed to either enter its premises or the campus, according to a decision by the varsity's executive council.
President Droupadi Murmu administered him the oath at a brief ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The accused has been identified as Harsh Sahay Gurjar and was held from Ganganagar in Sawai Madhopur district
Both the accused, aged around 17 years, live in the same neighbourhood and were known to the girl's family, police said.
The girl's mother alleged that her daughter was "inappropriately touched" by a classmate.
From police refusing to name the accused when the complaint was first filed to seeing her father tortured and killed, from her uncle being ensnared in an unrelated case to suffering an accident, which had clear marks of a conspiracy, the going was tough for her.
At present, the state has 81 such courts. Of the new 218, 144 will be for rape cases, 74 for POCSO cases.
'A speedy trial is absolutely essential.' 'Not only justice is given, it is given expeditiously.'
A total of 4,984 cases are pending against Members of Parliament and Members of Legislative Assembly/Council out of which 1,899 cases are more than five years old, the Supreme Court was told on Thursday.
The advocates will be permitted to remain present at the time of pronouncement of judgment.
"We have no idea what is happening in reality shows when children participate. These kids are below 15 years. These reality shows are harming kids' psyche and their future, too. If they want to continue, then there has to be proper guidelines laid down by the government for them to follow."
