Raids in Patna, Muzaffarpur, Begusarai and Motihari, which began around 07:30 am concluded around 02:30 pm
A day after a case of sexual abuse was registered against Orissa Assembly Speaker Maheswar Mohanty, the complainant lady marshal was untraceable.Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday asserted that his government always stood for proper action as per law. Patnaik, however, skirted queries about the possibility of the Speaker's resignation. The Speaker, who has denied the charge of sexual abuse, promised to cooperate with the police in the investigation.
Internal files from eight newly disclosed Army criminal investigations indicate a pattern of abuse at US detention facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
As per the allegation of the woman, she was gang-raped by two officials, including the former chief secretary, in Andaman and Nicobar Islands at his official residence.
The woman judicial officer, in her two-page letter, sought the CJI's permission to end her life following the abuse and harassment she had faced in her career during her posting in Barabanki.
The two students were also asked to vacate the campus after the institute charged them of trying to 'misrepresent facts'.
Students can be imposed a penalty of Rs 20,000 for holding dharnas and face admission cancellation or a fine of up to Rs 30,000 for resorting to violence at Jawaharlal Nehru University, its latest rules stipulate.
Twenty-four girls were rescued from a shelter home in Deoria in Uttar Pradesh after allegation of sexual exploitation of the inmates came to light a few days ago.
The police registered a case earlier this month after the chief judicial magistrate of Port Blair ordered its filing based on a petition by the young woman.
United World Wrestling (UWW), the world governing body for wrestling, has suspended the Wrestling Federation of India for not conducting its elections on time.
Lots of romance and action on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma lists her recommendations.
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A victim of marital sexual abuse cannot be discriminated against only because she is the wife of the offender and has to be treated as any other rape victim, a Delhi court has observed, while denying bail to a man accused of sodomising his pregnant wife.
The air hostess compared the executive with the Hollywood film maker charged with sexual misconduct by leading actresses.
The apex court had in January held the man guilty of contempt for his failure to bring back his son to India in terms of a court order.
Roman Catholic priest Rev Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul, facing charges of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota, on Wednesday said he was ready to go to the US if his presence was required for the case.
The court referred the NCRB data and said 38,947 women were raped in India in 2016. "What is to be done? Girls and women are getting raped left, right and centre," the bench said."
Several girls were sexually assaulted in a shelter home run by Thakur in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. He was convicted under various sections of IPC, POCSO Act and Juvenile Justice Act.
NCW data show a noticeable rise in sexual harassment at the workplace.
The Additional Sessions Court Judge read out to Mulakkal, who was present in the court, the charges under various sections of the Indian Penal Code including the punishment for offence for rape as it commenced trial proceedings in the sensational case.
Men in the military are 10 times more likely to experience sexual harassment than civilian peers, says study.
Fresh sexual assault complaints have been registered against controversial self-styled godman Asaram Bapu and his son Narayan Sai in Surat after two sisters accused the duo of abusing them.
A series of rape incidents, a minister going behind bars in an air hostess suicide case and sexual abuse of women and child inmates in a shelter home brought infamy to Haryana in 2012, overshadowing the glory its sports persons achieved at the London Olympics.
'Nitish Kumar is fooling the people of Bihar.' 'He will not probe anything because if he does so, he will be trapped himself.'
In the short five years since it came into being, feminist outfit FEMEN has become a force to reckon with thanks to their jaw-dropping mode of protest. The Ukrainian group has taken a stand against a number of issues by taking to the streets and taking off their tops.
The case has been filed electronically in Manhattan's State Supreme Court and the timing is expected to cause a delay in the sale of The Weinstein Company (TWC), which is facing bankruptcy, the New York Times reported.
In a statement, the IT ministry termed WhatsApp's last moment challenge to the intermediary guidelines as an unfortunate attempt to prevent norms from coming into effect.
The Delhi government's 181 helpline for women, which was launched in the wake of the December 16 gangrape, has received over two lakh calls in the last four-and-half months.
A Sikh Indian Police Service officer, who was deputed at Dhamakhali to prevent senior West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari from visiting restive Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, got agitated after a group of activists of the saffron party allegedly hurled the 'Khalistani' jibe at him.
Nearly 33 per cent of the 424 parents who took part in a survey reported that their children were approached by strangers via online platforms soliciting friendships, seeking personal and family details and broaching up sexual advice.
A judge in California had set a bail for US$ 2.1 million, but the New York district attorney has sent an arrest warrant seeking his continued detention even if he posts the bail, the prosecutors said. Alexander, who has worked with several celebrities, was charged with rape, aggravated sexual abuse and related crimes. Several of the alleged victims came to Alexander looking for modeling assignments or other job opportunities.
A fact-finding team of National Human Rights Commission, led by commission member Nirmala Sawant-Prabhawalkar, today visited Murwadi village in Lakhani taluka where three minor sisters were found to have been killed after sexual abuse earlier this month.
The Haryana government on Friday recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the allegations of sexual abuse and torture, including by police personnel, of the inmates of the controversial Apna Ghar shelter home in Rohtak
The second-grade student was sexually abused in the school toilet next to the office of the headmistress during recess on Monday by an unidentified person, police said on Tuesday.
FIFA on Saturday suspended Spanish federation chief Luis Rubiales from all soccer-related activities
India has been accused of "failure" to curb incidents of sexual violence against women and for "restrictions" on right to free speech by global rights group Human Rights Watch, which said the country continues to have "significant human rights problems".
Singer Abhijeet is at the centre of a controversy for hurling abuses on a female journalist after he got involved in a Twitter fight with her and other media persons.
Sinead O'Connor, the gifted Irish singer-songwriter, became a superstar in her mid-20s and was known as much for her private struggles and provocative actions as for her fierce and expressive music.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field.
A Special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday found five persons including a woman guilty in the sensational Kiliroor sex scandal case of 2004 in which a minor girl was sexually abused by being offered a role in television serials.
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