KASGANJ: There is little trace of either relief or joy in a remote village of marginal labourers some 60km from Kasganj town, now at the centre of a Supreme Court observation that followed an Allahabad high court order which said a child’s breasts being groped over clothing and drawstrings of her pyjama being broken did…
NEW DELHI: Strongly criticising the controversial order passed by Allahabad high court that grabbing the breasts of a minor girl and snapping the string of her pyjama were not adequate to charge an accused with the offence of rape or attempt to rape, Supreme Court Wednesday said the verdict showed “total” insensitivity, and stayed its…
NEW DELHI: A day after refusing to hear a plea challenging the Allahabad high court’s ruling, which stated that “grabbing a minor girl‘s breasts, breaking her pyjama strings did not amount to rape or an attempt to rape,” the Supreme Court on Tuesday took cognisance of the ruling on its own.A bench of Justices B…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a plea challenging the Allahabad High Court’s ruling, which stated that grabbing a minor girl’s breasts, breaking her pyjama did not amount to rape or an attempt to rape.A bench comprising Justices Bela Trivedi and Prasanna B Varale dismissed the petition, stating that the Court was…
RAJKOT: A court in Dhoraji town, in Gujarat’s Rajkot district, found a 22-year-old man guilty of raping a 14-year-old girl despite his DNA not matching her fetus; the conviction was based on other evidence and the survivor’s statement.At the same time, the court, in its recent order, also ordered the Rajkot SP to conduct a…
District collector of Tamil Nadu’s Mayiladuthurai A P Mahabharathi TRICHY: The district collector of Tamil Nadu‘s Mayiladuthurai caused outrage Friday by allegedly suggesting that a three-year-old survivor of an attempted sexual assault may have “provoked” the actions of the suspect, a 16-year-old boy. The remark led the state to transfer A P Mahabharathi and appoint…
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…
