'The Supreme Court should take serious note of it. Such a ruling has no place in a civilized society'
Two women, including a 27-year-old Israeli tourist, were allegedly gang-raped while stargazing on the banks of Sanapur Lake near Hampi, police said on Saturday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday said the lie-detection test of the five accused arrested in connection with the Badaun gang rape case did not find "any deviation" from their earlier claim of innocence.
The woman said after two female passengers who were travelling in same coach de-boarded the train at Alwal railway station, one unidentified man, aged around 25, came near her and demanded sexual favor and when she refused he tried to force upon her then she jumped from the moving train.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail pleas of two of the five accused in the Park Street gang rape case, saying it was not a fit case for granting relief, as two of the alleged culprits are still absconding. The apex court refused to interfere with the Calcutta high court's order denying bail to Sumit Bajaj and Mohd Nasir Khan, who were among the five youths accused of gang-raping an Anglo-Indian woman in a car on February 5 last year.
Pathanmajra, a first-time MLA, escaped from custody after a police team went to arrest him in Dabri village in Haryana's Karnal district, where he was at the residence of one of his relatives.
Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party chief Mohanlal Badoli and a singer were booked after a woman alleged that she was gang-raped by them in a hotel in Kasauli.
French Consulate official Pascal Mazurier, accused of raping his minor daughter, on Wednesday filed a complaint against his wife before the Karnataka State Child Rights Protection Commission, charging her with child abuse of his three minor children.
A departmental inquiry has also been ordered against the judge.
The minor was rescued after the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar police, in a joint operation with NGOs Exodus Road India Foundation and Harmony Foundation, raided a flat in Naigaon in Vasai in Palghar on July 26, the official said.
In a script straight from a Bollywood thriller, a man accused of attempt to rape fled in a state helicopter used by the Chief Minister and other VVIPs after he conned the police in Rajouri by mingling with accident victims being airlifted to Jammu.
He managed to dodge all eyes on him -- the guard posted to keep a "suicide watch" on him and inmates in the high-security cell in Tihar Jail in New Delhi -- to end his life using the clothes he was wearing.
There is some "foul play" behind the death of Ram Singh, one of the accused in the December 16 gang-rape of a 23-year-old girl who allegedly committed suicide in Tihar, his lawyer alleged today.
According to the woman, as she was waiting for a bus for Phaltan in Satara district at one of the platforms around 5.45 am on Tuesday, a man approached her and engaged her in conversation, calling her 'Didi' (sister), and said the bus for Satara had arrived at another platform.
A day after being sentenced to life imprisonment in a rape case, suspended Janata Dal-Secular leader Prajwal Revanna was assigned a prisoner number at Bengaluru's Parappana Agrahara Central prison, jail authorities said on Sunday.
The Supreme Court of India has emphasized the importance of conducting day-to-day trials, especially in sensitive cases, to ensure speedy justice as guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution. The court has directed high courts to form committees to address trial delays and revert to the practice of continuous trials.
Following the granting of a three-month interim bail to religious preacher Asaram Bapu, police in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, have heightened security measures at the residence of the rape survivor's family. The family, who have expressed concerns for their safety, will now need to inform the police before traveling outside the district. Asaram was convicted in 2018 for sexually assaulting a minor girl in 2013 and sentenced to life imprisonment. His latest conviction in Gujarat in 2023 resulted in another life sentence. The police have deployed a guard at the victim's house, provided personal gunners for her father and brother, and installed surveillance cameras. The police are also monitoring the area and have prohibited unauthorized gatherings. The victim's father expressed concern over Asaram's ability to manage his affairs from outside prison despite his health issues.
An FIR was lodged against Rathore on January 17 on a complaint by a woman who accused him of repeatedly raping her over four years after promising to marry her.
Giving a new twist to the case of the French diplomat who is accused of raping his three-year-old daughter in Bengaluru, a new Facebook page titled -'Pascal Mazurier is innocent' has surfaced.
A local court today sent six youths arrested on the charge of gang-rape of an 18-year-old girl to two-day police custody.
'If it is not reversed, it will set a dangerous precedent.'
United SC terminated the contract of Baldeep Singh, while East Bengal stood by Jagpreet Singh after both were accused of raping a 14-year-old girl. The duo, along with another player, Jaspal Parmar, a former India international and ex-East Bengal defender, are accused of rape.
Aurangabad acting superintendent of police Pranav Kumar told PTI that the Delhi police team rigorously questioned the father and brother of the accused, who hails from Lahankarma village of the district and is about 125 km from Patna, before returning to the national capital.
Former MP and suspended Janata Dal-Secular leader Prajwal Revanna was on Friday convicted by a Special Court here in one of the four sexual abuse and rape cases registered against him.
The Delhi police on Tuesday opposed the plea of two of the four accused in the December 16 gang rape case for use of Hindi language during the trial proceedings as they do not understand English, calling it a 'delaying tactic'.
Justice Girish Kathpalia rejected the man's claim of having consensual relations with the girl pointing out that even consent was not lawful when it comes to a minor.
Mulayam alleged that Prajapati was being treated like a "terrorist" and said he would take up the matter with the prime minister.
A porter allegedly raped a woman in an empty coach of a long-distance train at the Bandra Terminus in Mumbai, police said.
One of the accused in the December 16 gang rape on Saturday again pleaded the special court hearing the case not to send him back to Tihar alleging he was assaulted by prison security personnel, who have threatened to kill him, a charge denied by the jail authorities.
The Vasco school girl rape case took a new turn on Wednesday with the lawyer of the victim alleging before a court that a relative of the headmistress was involved in the crime.
The opposition INDIA bloc has declared RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav as its chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections.
The Delhi police on Wednesday told a fast track court that they cannot direct IGNOU to provide a copy of the examination schedule for BA first year to one of the accused in the December 16 gang rape case.
All these years, various police teams tried to search him, but he remained untraced, he said.
The Russian girl, who was allegedly raped by a politician in Goa, claimed that a group of people linked to the accused had tried to assault her outside a court on Tuesday evening.
A 25-year-old individual from Madhya Pradesh who underwent a gender reassignment procedure has accused her lover of rape and physical abuse after he refused to marry her following the surgery, a police official said on Thursday.
Acting on the man's bail plea, the court observed the case fell in the same genre in which the man and the woman developed "sexual proximity" in the same workplace, but after about a year, the relationship turned sour paving way for allegations of "force and rape".
Over four months after she was allegedly raped during communal violence in Orissa's Kandhamal district, a Catholic nun on Monday finally identified two persons for involvement in the incident during a test identification parade, which was earlier deferred thrice.The 29-year-old nun identified two persons from a line-up of 90 during the identification parade, which was held at the high-security Choudwar jail in Cuutack and not in Kandhamal, following a HC direction.
Maintaining that other persons were also involved in the crime, the parents of the victim have said that they expect that they will also be arrested and tried before the court.
Four men were arrested in Visakhapatnam for allegedly gang-raping a law student and blackmailing her with some intimate videos, police said.
The mother of a rape victim was allegedly beaten up here by family members of one of the accused when she refused to withdraw the first information report in the case, the police said on Friday.
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