Punjab AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, wanted in a rape case, denies firing at police and claims a conspiracy by a 'Delhi lobby' within the party.
He claimed that those named in the complaint could harm him and his wife due to his retracted statements in connection with allegations of multiple cases of rape, murder and burials in Dharmasthala, police said.
A madrassa principal in Uttar Pradesh has been arrested for allegedly converting a minor boy and enrolling him under a changed name. The incident came to light after the boy's father, recently released from jail, created a disturbance at the madrassa.
'She fought hard and wrote 4-page complaint letters. She cannot die with just a little note on her palm'
Prajapati and two other convicts Ashok Tiwari and Ashish Shukla were present in the court when the judgment was pronounced.
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.
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.
Though the incident occurred on July 3 evening, it came to the fore after the victim filed a complaint at Jajpur town police station on Monday, the police said.
The trial court had awarded him the maximum punishment of life term with a rider that the convict will remain in jail for "remainder of his natural biological life" and also imposed an exemplary fine of Rs 25 lakh on him to be paid within a month.
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.
''Women are coming into public spaces in larger numbers than ever before. They are educated, capable, opinionated, and determined.' 'But the more women push for access to public space, the harder they are pushed back -- through attacks like this, through discrimination, through the glass ceiling, through the deliberate denial of recognition.'
The trial in the rape case of a five-year-old child allegedly involving two youths on Wednesday commenced in a Delhi court with the girl's mother bursting into tears during her testimony.
Two officers have been transferred for 'inept' handling of the entire episode.
The Kerala government on Thursday submitted in the high court that a Public Interest Litigation seeking further investigation against Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien in the nearly two-decade-old Suryanelli rape case was not maintainable and pointed that the prime accused had retracted his statement which sought to implicate the Congress leader.
To demand justice for the eight-year-old girl who was gang-raped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir and the teenager in UP's Unnao, the Congress party led a candelight vigil to India Gate in New Delhi.
The special investigation team of Thane police has arrested two more persons from Navi Mumbai in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a 15-year-old girl, an official said on Friday.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Dharmasthala case has recovered skeletal remains during a search operation in Banglegudda forest, near the Netravati bathing ghats in Dakshina Kannada district. The remains have been sent for forensic examination.
Anwar Qadri, a Congress councillor in Indore, India, has been removed from his position due to allegations of funding 'love jihad'. This action follows his arrest and accusations of providing funds to lure women into converting to Islam. The move has sparked political controversy, with the Congress party facing criticism and the BJP accused of engaging in communal politics.
A special court has declined to discharge a police officer from charges of failing to record a rape complaint against BJP ex-MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in 2017 by a minor victim, officials said.
Earlier, the top court had on September 19 deferred the hearing on the appeal of Hussain against a Delhi high court order relating to an FIR against him on the woman's complaint alleging rape.
This comes months after Singh walked out of the Sunaria jail in Haryana's Rohtak after being granted a 21-day furlough in April.
Six people, including a minor, were arrested for allegedly raping a 19-year-old college student for several days and videographing the act in Odisha's Cuttack district, police said on Friday.
Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka was quizzed by the police on Wednesday over the alleged rape of a Norwegian woman in a hotel room where he was present.
Two police teams have been conducting the search to collect evidence at his apartment in Kunathurmedu since morning, officials said.
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.
Rajasthan Minister Babulal Nagar, accused of raping a 35-year-old woman at his residence in Jaipur, on Thursday tendered his resignation.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, naming former principal Sandip Ghosh and others as accused.
Merely refusal to get married by a man after a consensual physical relationship for four years would not constitute a cognisable offence, the Allahabad high court has said while rejecting the plea of his live-in partner who had accused him of rape.
'If my daughter was admitted in time and her treatment started soon, she could have been saved.'
A Delhi court on Saturday convicted filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui of raping a 30-year-old United States researcher last year.
More was imprisoned for 12 years.
"Nobody is talking about the police's role and how the case was investigated well," ex-Delhi police commissioner said.
Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun several times between 2014 and 2016, is currently out on bail.
Satyapal Singh, MoS HRD, said allegations can also be proven wrong.
A day after the photojournalist, who was working as an intern with an English magazine, was gangraped allegedly by five men, a special squad has been formed by the local police as well as by the Crime Branch to probe the case
One of the accused in the December 16 gang rape case on Thursday claimed before a Delhi court that he, along with other five co-accused, had not beaten or robbed the carpenter that night.
The Janata Dal-Secular on Thursday petitioned Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, seeking his intervention recommending a CBI probe into the sexual abuse charges against Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna.
Human Rights Watch urges Sri Lanka to prosecute perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the civil war, citing a UN report on sexual violence against Tamil civilians.
An appeal has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi high court's split verdict on the issue of criminalisation of marital rape on a batch of petitions challenging the exception in the law that exempts husbands from being prosecuted for non-consensual sexual intercourse with their wives.
Shivakumar, who was declared guilty by a Bangalore fast track court for the rape and murder of Pratibha Murthy, an employee of the Hewlett-Packard run business process outsourcing arm, was given a life term till death on Friday.
