BELAGAVI/KOLHAPUR: A girl who had filed a sexual harassment case against a bus conductor under the Pocso Act in the Belagavi ticket row over language last week, sought on Tuesday to withdraw the complaint. Her parents insisted they “too are fans of Kannada” in a bid to ease the flare-up across the border.The bus conductor,…
BENGALURU: A police constable in his late 30s has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor who sought assistance after being raped by her neighbour on the pretext of marriage.“In Dec last year, the girl and her mother approached Bommanahalli Police, alleging that the neighbour had been harassing the teen for marriage. The girl hadn’t…
Bus conductor assaulted, slapped with Pocso case after language row BELAGAVI: A case has been registered under the Pocso Act against the NWKRTC bus conductor who was assaulted by a group of people in Balekundri (KH) on Friday for not speaking to a passenger in Marathi. According to the police, the passenger in question, a…
The HC dismissed this argument, emphasizing that the victim’s instinct in recognizing inappropriate behavior must be believed. NEW DELHI: The Bombay High Court has upheld the five-year imprisonment of a former Lieutenant Colonel convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl, saying that the victim clearly identified the “bad touch” and described the incident with “immense…
DEHRADUN: A fast track court in Dehradun acquitted three men who spent four years in jail on rape charges under Pocso Act after finding that the case against them was fabricated. The court ruled that the woman, then 19, was in a consensual relationship with one of the accused and filed a false complaint after…
NEW DELHI: At least two individuals were arrested and the principal booked on Sunday after female students of a private engineering college in Medchal, near Hyderabad accused kitchen staff of filming them in hostel washrooms. Following student protests on January 1 and 2, authorities filed a case against seven individuals, including the arrestees, principal, director…
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court called “prima facie strange and also shameful” invocation of charges under Posco Act in a case of sexual offence against a minor eight years after FIR was lodged and trial was nearing completion. This case is from Mehsana town, north Gujarat, where a 15-year-old lodged a complaint against four people…
BENGALURU: Paternal consent for the adoption of a child born out of rape is inconsequential and immaterial, Karnataka high court said while ruling in favour of a teenage sexual assault survivor who had been refused official permission to legally give her baby to a couple, reports Vasantha Kumar.“When the natural guardians of a child are…
Image used for representative purpose only KANPUR: A 14-year-old girl from Auraiya has accused her grandfather, father and uncle of repeatedly raping her for about a year, police said. Acting on the complaint, police registered a case under Section 63 (rape) of the Pocso Act and arrested the accused on Thursday night.Additional superintendent of police…
KOLKATA: Technology that helps decipher grainy CCTV footage better, coupled with limping gait of a suspect, helped police arrest a man who raped a seven-month-old infant in north Kolkata last Friday, reports Dwaipayan Ghosh. Police Wednesday, arrested suspect Rajib Ghosh, 34, alias Gobra from a resort in Gopiballavpur in Jhargram, where he worked as a…
