The Delhi police on Thursday arrested two persons for their alleged involvement in the abduction and rape of a 30-year-old call centre employee in Delhi last week. The two, identified as Shamshad and Usman, have a criminal background and were allegedly involved in a gang-rape case earlier also."These people have criminal backgrounds. They were involved in gang-rape case earlier," a police official said. Shamshad and Usman are in their early 20s.
A man was arrested and sent to jail in Jaipur on Thursday for alleged sexual abuse, including rape, of his two minor daughters over five years, a senior police official said.
A Delhi court has taken strong exception to a large number of extra marital affairs being converted into rape cases. A court in Delhi has acquitted a man accused of raping a married woman on the false promise of marriage.
The rally was not allowed to proceed towards the South Calcutta Law College, where the 24-year-old student was allegedly gang-raped by three men, including an alumnus of the institute, on June 25.
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh has relieved a woman judge of court duties after she made a controversial observation in her judgment that the police should not register a rape case 72 hours after the offence was committed.
In a relief to Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien, a Kerala court on Saturday rejected a plea by the victim in the Suryanelli gang rape case for a reprobe into the alleged involvement of the Congress leader, holding there was no new ground for a fresh investigation.
John Fernandes, an accused in the Russian girl rape case, was absconding on Wednesday and the police was hot on the trail of the high profile politician from South Goa whose anticipatory bail has been cancelled.
According to the victim, she was waiting for an auto-rickshaw after finishing work at a salon when the two accused forcibly dragged her into a car.
Kashyap has denied actor Payal Ghosh's all allegations.
A National Crime Records Bureau report reveals Mumbai's crime statistics for 2023, highlighting its position among metropolitan cities in cases of assault on women, kidnapping, rape, and murder.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha did not agree to the submissions of senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Amit Desai, counsel for Tejpal, that the proceedings be held in private to safeguard the reputation and privacy of the journalist.
The Hyderabad police is mulling filing a petition with the Juvenile Justice Board seeking to treat the five CCLs (child in conflict with law) as adults during the trial in the gang-rape case, to ensure that they get the maximum punishment.
The Supreme Court expressed deep regret that the actual perpetrator of the Nithari killings was not established despite a prolonged investigation, while acquitting Surendra Koli in the last Nithari murder case.
Even as the victim-nun moved the high court to set aside the acquittal, the state government on Wednesday granted sanction for filing an appeal against the trial court's January 14, 2022 decision.
To escape charges in a rape case, a man in Tamil Nadu commits a murder.
A whopping 1,121 rape cases were registered in the city in the first eight months of this year, the highest in the last 13 years.
According to the police, the minor was gang-raped several times by her mother's boyfriend and his aide, both of whom are in their thirties, in Haridwar, Agra and Vrindavan between January and March this year.
A 25-year-old Russian tourist had alleged that John raped her on December 1 mid-night after spiking her drink. Police Inspector Sunita Sawant told PTI that the Crime Branch had initiated efforts to trace the accused but he was unavailable.
Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien, facing a political storm over Suryanelli rape case that has returned to haunt him, on Thursday met Congress President Sonia Gandhi and explained his position.
'If it is not reversed, it will set a dangerous precedent.'
Expressing anguish over the brutal rape of a five-year-old girl in Delhi, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj on Saturday demanded capital punishment in child rape cases and those involving brutality and barbarity and said the new anti-rape law be made more stringent.
The incident happened on Sunday night when the woman, an undergraduate student at a private college, went to the beach along with her boyfriend, who is a classmate, on the occasion of the Raja festival, they said.
The main accused, arrested for the rape and blackmailing of some girl students of a college in Bhopal, was shot and injured after he allegedly tried to escape custody by snatching a policeman's pistol, an official said on Saturday.
'She was brave. She didn't care a hoot. And India was not the strongest of nations as it is now.'
Nine witnesses have been attacked so far and three of them have died.
'She was brave. She didn't care a hoot. And India was not the strongest of nations as it is now.'
Intellectuals joined by Congress leaders on Tuesday protested the 'failure' of the Mamata Banerjee government to resolve the Park Street rape case, which took place exactly a year ago, with a procession taken out by them stopped by the police.
Soon after the verdict, a team of policemen reached a private resort where Narain is staying and took him to the Police Line amid heavy security.
The election agent of the candidate, Brahmanand Netam, said he has submitted a reply to the Jharkhand police on the leader's behalf stating Netam is busy with electioneering.
Nitish thought that his stakes as chief minister were far greater than his stakes in protecting one of his party MLAs. He could not allow his rule-of-law train to be derailed by a small rock on the track. On the contrary, if he removed it to keep the train moving at a steady speed he would gain strong public admiration and sympathy that would help him take the masses along in carrying out other tasks. A fascinating excerpt from Arun Sinha's Nitish Kumar And The Rise Of Bihar.
As many as 77 rape cases were reported across India on an average every day in 2020, totalling to 28,046 such incidents during the year, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau data.
Kalyan Banerjee claimed that Moitra, the Krishnanagar MP, was back in India after her honeymoon and started attacking him.
The doctor, hailing from Beed district and posted at a government hospital, was found hanging in a hotel room in Phaltan of Satara district on Thursday night.
He further contended that in his bail application, Prajapati stated that he had no criminal case pending against him but six cases were pending against him.
The outburst of emotions in the aftermath of the Delhi gangrape case seems to have its desired effect on those responsible for law and order situation with the police in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district filing a chargesheet in a rape case within 45 hours of the crime and that too against a powerful person.
A fast track trial court on Thursday framed charges against the six accused in the Tata Institute of Social Sciences gang rape case and will commence recording of evidence against them from January 13.
'If my daughter was admitted in time and her treatment started soon, she could have been saved.'
The police have certain logistical limitations in monitoring the movement of every individual, Banerjee said.
The investigation into the case of a woman who was buried after her murder in Haryana's Faridabad has revealed that the victim was allegedly raped by her father-in-law before her murder, said police.
The sessions court in Mumbai on Thursday found all the accused in the Shakti Mills gangrape cases guilty. They will be sentenced by the court later today.
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