'Peepli Live' co-director Mahmood Farooqui has been arrested and sent to jail on charges of raping a US-based Indian origin research scholar in New Delhi.
Dausa Member of Parliament Kirori Lal Meena, who was on a dharna in Jaipur seeking justice for a tribal woman allegedly raped by an Indian Police Service officer about 13 years ago, was arrested along with 13 others in the wee hours of Wednesday.
Reacting to the development, MP Home Minister Narottam Mishra questioned the delay in action taken by the Congress against Karan Morwal.
Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal has lodged a police complaint alleging that she has been receiving rape threats on 'Instagram' after she wrote to the Centre demanding filmmaker Sajid Khan's ouster from reality show Bigg Boss.
The psychoanalytic profile of the arrested accused in the rape and murder of the woman doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sanjay Roy, indicated that he was a pervert and severely addicted to pornography, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer said on Thursday.
Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the alleged rape and murder of an RG Kar Medical College trainee doctor in Kolkata, told his lawyer that he wants to plead "not guilty" in court as he is innocent, according to a report in the Times of India.
Pascal Mazurier, the French official in Bengaluru who is accused of raping his three-year-old daughter, faces arrest after the Centre and France on Monday made it clear that he does not enjoy any diplomatic immunity and that police can take action against him.
The accused, local resident Vincent D'Souza (32), was part of a group that illegally offered massage services near the Arambol beach in North Goa district, which is quite popular with international tourists, they said.
Former Karnataka food and civil supplies minister H Halappa was on Saturday arrested in connection with a rape case filed against him by his friend's wife. Halappa, who appeared before the Criminal Investigation Department on Saturday following a notice served by the investigating agency on May 6, was questioned for three to four hours, said DIG of CID Charan Reddy. "We have formally arrested him after interrogating him. Halappa has denied the allegations," he said.
The forward began his career at United's academy and has played once for the England national team.
A minor girl was allegedly raped by two policemen in Bhuj town of Kutch district in Gujarat, police said in Ahmedabad on Sunday.\n\n
They repeatedly raped the girl, who works in a private firm in Industrial Model Township, Manesar, and then dumped her on the Delhi-Jaipur National Highway.
The 17-year-old girl, whose body was found in a canal in Kaliaganj police station area on Friday, knew the man, Superintendent of Police (SP) Md Sana Akhtar said, identifying him as the prime accused.
While one was organised by the alumni of Ramakrishna Mission-run educational institutions, another involved students and past pupils from a well-known convent school, both echoing the demand for justice for the medic.
The CP said that the Kolkata police handed over all evidence, including videographed post-mortem to the Central Bureau of Investigation, which is investigating the case upon orders of the Calcutta high court.
Despite Banerjee's promise of a transparent investigation, the protesters criticised the delay, demanding a judicial inquiry, capital punishment for the culprits, and adequate compensation for the victim's family.
Parents of other students gathered outside the school and staged a protest.
The ruling Trinamool Congress claimed that the strike call exposed the BJP's game plan to foment disturbances in the state exploiting people's pain over the alleged rape and murder of a woman doctor.
Four more persons, including a teacher, were arrested Tuesday in connection with the rape of minor inmates of a government-run residential school for tribal girls at Jhaliyamari village in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh, police said.
The CPI-M's allegations were termed a political conspiracy by the opposition Congress which accused the Left party of stooping low to target its political opponents.
Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan's driver has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor maid servant on the pretext of getting her a job at the actor's residence after she was sacked by an actress, who is the wife of an cricketer-turned-politician, police said on Thursday.
In the latest tape that surfaced on Saturday night, Kayal was heard saying that 70 women got Rs 2,000 each for taking part in protests against Sheikh who was arrested and later suspended by the police.
As per the preliminary probe, she had been raped and assaulted with an iron rod in her private parts, he said, adding that the incident had taken place inside a tempo parked on the roadside.
Former chief secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Jitendra Narain on Friday appeared before a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for questioning over the gangrape charges against him.
A 20-year-old Indian-origin man has been sentenced to six years and nine months' imprisonment in the Welsh capital of Cardiff after admitting to raping a woman in London.
In yet another shocking incident of sexual assault of women, a minor girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped in Puducherry by two persons, including a bus conductor known to her, police said on Thursday.
The bail plea of the accused bodyguard, Amarendra Singh, was allowed by additional sessions court judge V M Pathade on June 26.
The Noida police have cracked the alleged rape and murder case of a 21-year-old woman factory worker and arrested two accused in connection with the case. The two arrested were identified as Naresh and Kailash. The third accused Udeyveer is absconding, Senior Superintendent of Police Praveen Kumar said on Monday.
Two days after his dismissal for allegedly showing apathy in handling case of a gangrape victim, the assistant sub inspector of police was arrested on Saturday near urban estate area.
Suzette Jordan, the victim was gang-raped on the night of February 5, 2012 by five men.
One juvenile was allegedly seen in videos misbehaving with the girl, but was not involved in rape.
A 28-year-old trainee nun was allegedly gang-raped by three youths, including two cousins, after holding her forcibly for about a week in Odisha's Ganjam and Gajapati districts, police sources said on Monday.
A 30-year-old Malaysian woman was allegedly raped by a business consultant in Jaipur, following which the accused was arrested, police said on Saturday.
The exact words of a senior officer to his higher ups prior to the arrest of skating instructor Mustafa in connection with the rape of a six-year-old in a Bangalore school were, "Don't arrest him, we have no evidence against him. We will cut a very sorry figure."
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who piloted the laws, said the new laws would give priority to providing justice, unlike the British-era laws that gave primacy to penal action.
The central probe agency had also placed the findings before a special court in Kolkata during a hearing earlier in the week, he said.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers for the fourth consecutive day on Monday questioned the former principal of Kar Medical College, Sandip Ghosh in connection with their probe into the rape and murder of a woman doctor.
A team of senior Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers, who reached Kolkata on Wednesday morning, began its investigation into the alleged rape and murder of a woman doctor at a state-run hospital in West Bengal, officials said.
Singh was under investigation by the federal agency as part of the case lodged under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against an educational trust run by his wife and former legislator Kanta Andotra, they said.
Four people were arrested in connection with the incident that happened on Tuesday.
