An officer of Oonnukal police station, where the FIR under Section 376 of the IPC was registered, said that there are six accused, including a woman, in the case.
We invite Get Ahead readers to comment on the shameful treatment of women at the hands of eve-teasers and perverts in public.
Audit firms such as KPMG believe zero complaints may be an indicator of the lack of requisite mechanism to allow for such reporting
When they're not busy trying to protect their female staff from sexual harassment by over-friendly customers, hotels have to cope with harassment of a different kind -- thievery.
Justice S A Bobde, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, along with N V Ramana and Indira Banerjee will conduct an in-house inquiry into the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.
Union Minister Raksha Khadse on Sunday lodged a police complaint regarding the harassment of her daughter and some of her friends by a group of boys at an event in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district.
Bajrang Punia has tendered an unconditional apology to wrestling coach Naresh Dahiya for sullying his name during their protest against the then WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Ramani had made allegation of sexual misconduct against Akbar in the wake of #MeToo movement in 2018.
'Such a struggle at Kalakshetra is unprecedented.'
Under the subhead 'why is this counselling session required', the contentious point has now been replaced with, 'Boys will be counselled to clearly distinguish between friendship and behaviour that may be considered sexual harassment. Girls will be counselled how to avoid sexual harassment.'
Declaring that the right of reputation cannot be protected at the cost of right of life and dignity, a Delhi court on Wednesday threw out former Union minister and editor M J Akbar's criminal defamation suit against journalist Priya Ramani who has accused him of sexual harassment.
Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal, who has been accused by his junior colleague of sexual assault, on Tuesday alleged he has been framed because of "political vendetta".
TVF CEO Arunabh Kumar was booked for molestation after a complaint was registered against him at Versova police station. On Wednesday, a victim had filed a complaint against Arunabh at Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation police station.
Sudiksha, an academically bright student, was pursuing a graduation course in entrepreneurship at Babson College, Massachusetts, US, on a scholarship and was scheduled to go back on August 20.
The commission, in its report submitted to the law ministry, said the amendments are necessary as such cases do not merit to be dealt with the same severity as the cases that were ideally imagined to fall under the POCSO Act.
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.
The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court has granted anticipatory bail to a man accused of molesting a minor girl by holding her hand, saying the victim's statement indicated no "sexual intent".
Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, the chief pontiff of Murugha Math booked under the POCSO Act for alleged sexual abuse of high school girls was arrested on Thursday, police sources said.
The court noted that the primary allegations centred around disagreements related to the couple's sexual relationship and the wife's refusal to engage in certain activities. It concluded that these disputes were not indicative of dowry demands and were more likely driven by personal differences.
A 15-year-old girl in Odisha, India, has died after allegedly being set on fire by unidentified assailants. The incident has sparked outrage and prompted investigations by local authorities.
The officer had denied the charges against him levelled by the Captain-rank woman officer.
National Commission for Women chairperson Rekha Sharma has sought withdrawal of a 'misogynist' circular issued by the Jawaharlal Nehru University, which says girls are 'supposed to know how to draw a tangible line between them and their male friends.'
'Abuse, asking for sexual favours, and expecting women to compromise to gain a foothold or accelerate their careers exist in every field. Why is a woman alone expected to go through the grind?'
The International Olympic Committee should investigate India's wrestling federation and bolster its tools to report cases of sexual harassment, the Sport and Rights Alliance (SRA) said
"...I would appeal to him (Prajwal Revanna) to come back to Karnataka and face this investigation... If you have not done anything then why are you afraid, why did you run away? You have to face this situation," Kumaraswamy told a reporter in Bengaluru.
Even as political pressure was building against Ranjith, actor Siddique quit as the general secretary of Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA) amid voices from within his fraternity seeking his resignation.
'Anurag Kashyap kept quiet for more than three years and now, he wants to become Devdas by making her tragedy his.'
'There are several people connected to this (sexual abuse cases), I don't want to take anyone's names. Kumaraswamy has said that those who are involved in this matter, action should be taken against all of them, and the affected women should get justice and compensation'
The CID, probing charges against Yediyurappa of sexually assaulting a minor girl, has alleged in the chargesheet that he and three other accused paid money to the alleged victim and her mother to buy their silence.
Yogeshwar questions 'unfair' trial exemption given to 6 wrestlers by IOA ad-hoc panel
'If I had continued staying in Kerala and making films, I would have probably lost my life.' 'I am no longer a film-maker.'
The ministry, while suspending the newly-formed WFI panel under president Sanjay Singh on December 24, three days after he was elected its head, had cited the office running from Brij Bhushan's residence as one of the reasons for taking the stringent action.
A 54-year-old woman who accused senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader B S Yediyurappa of allegedly sexually abusing her 17-year-old daughter died at a private hospital in Bengaluru due to lung cancer, police said on Monday.
The Mumbai Police on Thursday arrested two men for allegedly molesting and stalking a South Korean woman YouTuber on a street in the city, an official said.
The ministry felt the new WFI body was working under the complete control of its former office-bearers, which was not in conformity with the National Sports Code.
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and his son Karan are not part of the electoral college for the upcoming Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections.
The former Haryana chief minister also reiterated his demand for an impartial inquiry into the allegations levelled against the head of the Wrestling Federation of India.
IOA president P T Usha on Sunday slammed the revolting executive council members, saying they 'seem more focused on self-serving power play and monetary gain'
Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal's interim bail was on Friday extended by the Supreme Court till July 1 when it will hear his regular bail plea in a sexual assault case.
At the same time, the bench also said the observations of the appellant in the bail order were indeed "derogatory to women and wholly uncalled for".
