Sources said Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed displeasure at the way the alleged molestation case was handled.
Terming rise in cases of sexual violence against women as a "matter of shame", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday hoped Parliament would "urgently" pass amendments to strengthening criminal laws in this regard.
Odisha on Monday got its first fast-track court here to deal exclusively with cases of sexual offences against women.
The Supreme Court has extended the benefits of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act to minors who engage in consensual sexual activity by exempting doctors from disclosing their identity to the local police.
Last month, the Supreme Court collegium had withdrawn its approval to a proposal for the appointment of additional judge, Justice Ganediwala as a permanent judge of the court following her two controversial verdicts.
It's called the Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Bill 2010, but what it's seeking to do may be a little different from the expectations parents have.
At least 2,441 people have been arrested in the state till Monday in the continuing operation against child marriage, launched on February 3.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday said there was an anomaly and misalignment in the erstwhile Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which was decriminalised by the Supreme Court in 2018, and the rape law that protects a husband from prosecution for a non-consensual sexual act, including unnatural sex, with his wife.
Rehana Fathima, a woman's right activist, was facing charges under various provisions of the POCSO, Juvenile Justice and the Information Technology (IT) Acts for circulating a video in which she was seen posing semi-nude for her minor children, allowing them to paint on her body.
A fast track court to try sexual offence cases against women was inaugurated in New Delhi by Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir who advocated speedy trial of the case relating to the December 16 gangrape of the 23-year-old girl.
Under attack for attempted cover up, Shoma Chaudhury, who quit as managing editor of Tehelka on Thursday, has apologised before the National Commission for Women for "lapses" in handling the case of alleged sexual assault on a woman journalist by editor of the magazine Tarun Tejpal.
The current social realities and challenges have been addressed in the new Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 that will provide a mechanism for effectively dealing with such crimes and criminals and also having a deterrent effect, officials said on Saturday.
At present, the state has 81 such courts. Of the new 218, 144 will be for rape cases, 74 for POCSO cases.
Two minor girls were raped every day last year in New Delhi, which was the most unsafe metropolitan city for women across the country, according to the latest report of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
The public relations agency for which the woman worked and the insurance company where her husband was employed announced their termination on Twitter.
It asked that even in cases where the victim had died, 'why should there be disclosure of name'.
The agency has slapped Section 120B of IPC (criminal conspiracy) read with Section 420 IPC (cheating and dishonesty) and Section 7 of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (amended in 2018) which covers unlawful acceptance of gratification by a public servant.
WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh urged that the national championships and camps should be conducted as all activities have come to a standstill.
Users should be aware of "fake emails" sent in the garb of a government e-notice, said the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) in a public advertisement.
The Delhi high court has said that a girl, who has attained puberty, can marry without the consent of her parents under Muslim laws while hearing a plea seeking protection to a couple who got married against the consent of girl's parents.
Parents of other students gathered outside the school and staged a protest.
The PIL said the independent expert committee should be asked to submit its report within four weeks and direction be issued for action against state agencies for dereliction of duty.
Justice Pushpa Ganediwala recently acquitted a man accused of groping a 12-year-old girl's breast because he did not make skin-to-skin contact and days earlier, ruled that holding the hands of a five-year-old girl and unzipping the trousers do not amount to "sexual assault" under the POCSO Act.
Emerging a free man, Julian told a crowd of journalists: "It's great to feel the fresh air of London again. I thank all the people around the world who had faith in me".
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the Delhi case was not the first FIR registered in the country. He said the first case under the new laws was about a motorcycle theft registered in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior at 10 minutes past midnight.
The Goa bench of the Bombay high court on Thursday directed a sessions court, which recently acquitted journalist Tarun Tejpal in a 2013 rape case, to redact all references in its judgment which disclose the victim's identity, before uploading it on the court's website.
Terming the rape and murder case of a medic at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital as horrific, the Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on the West Bengal government over delay in filing first information report (FIR) in the matter.
The Supreme Court has said that grounds like "there was a love affair" between the girl and the accused and there was alleged "refusal to marry" will have no bearing on the grant of bail in a POCSO case.
The accused, Peter, 21, has been arrested on a complaint from the girl's parents, they said, adding that he was on Saturday produced in a local court which remanded him to judicial custody.
The appeal against the high court order came up for hearing before a bench of justices A S Bopanna and P S Narasimha, which stayed it.
The police staged a flag march in the main market area of the town and appealed to people to maintain peace.
BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said they planned to meet President Droupadi Murmu and will hold another mahapanchayat in Haryana's Kurukshetra on Friday to discuss the next steps in the agitation.
The child, studying in a leading private school, was returning home in the bus when the offence took place.
Narayan Sai, the son of godman Asaram Bapu, has filed an anticipatory bail plea in a local court in connection with the complaint of sexual assault against him.
Senior advocate Indu Malhotra and others filed the PIL in the wake of the gruesome December 16 gangrape and assault of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus, resulting in her death.
Following are the key points of the three criminal law bills, that were passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday and seek to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and the Evidence Act.
The government on Friday ruled out convening a special session of Parliament to discuss stricter punishment for sexual offences saying the issue would be taken up after receipt of the Justice Verma Committee report.
A former deputy head teacher at a London primary school who had pleaded guilty to paying and instructing teenagers in India to abuse younger children was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Wednesday.
Girish Maheshwari was arrested from Bavla near Ahmedabad late on Wednesday night, a senior police official said.
A Singapore-based doctor, who analysed the slides containing samples of cells and tissue of the December 16 gangrape victim, testified today as a witness for the prosecution through video conferencing in a fast track court in New Delhi.
