NEW DELHI: A probe into a 15-year-old boy’s suicide revealed that a 26-year-old sales executive allegedly committed sexual assault and harassed him, according to Pune Police on Wednesday.“The investigation showed that an unidentified person had sent messages to the boy threatening to make his photos and videos public. Police tracked down the accused,” a police…
Image used for representative purpose only AHMEDABAD: Nearly a fortnight after a 54-year-old man was arrested over allegations of sexual harassment of four girls aged between 8 and 11, investigations have revealed that the accused had raped them all and also recorded the act on his phone. Vaso police of Kheda had arrested Chandrakant Patel…
HYDERABAD: A woman was allegedly gangraped by four persons after they offered her a lift in an autorickshaw on Friday night.According to police, the accused saw the survivor standing alone at a bus stand in Nizamabad and offered her a lift. After she got into the vehicle, they took her to Dichpally where she was…
NAGPUR: Observing that a minor subjected to sexual assault would be “petrified” and “not behave normally and play”, Nagpur bench of Bombay HC acquitted a 64-year-old man, who was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment under Pocso Act and Section 376AB of IPC for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl in March 2019.The man, Vijay…
Accused Akshay Shinde (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday questioned several aspects concerning the death of the Badlapur accused who was shot down after he allegedly grabbed a gun and opened fire while in police custody.Noting the probe into the shoot-out should be carried out in a fair and impartial manner,…
NEW DELHI: At a time when incidents of sexual assault against women is causing revulsion across the country, SC on Friday agreed to examine the feasibility of laying down mandatory guidelines for a swift probe by the police into complaints about missing girls/women.PIL petitioners – minor daughter and sister of a murdered nurse in Rudrapur…
A grand jury on Thursday indicted former movie producer Harvey Weinstein on additional charges, as announced by a prosecutor during a court hearing in New York. The details of the new charges have not yet been disclosed, Reuters reported.During a hearing on July 9, prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced their plans to…
This is a representational image Noida: The headmistress of a CBSE-affiliated school‘s junior wing, its supervisor and a teacher were among four persons arrested on Thursday after a six-year-old student’s father alleged that the child was sexually assaulted on the premises and the authorities had tried to hush up the matter.The girl was allegedly assaulted…
KOLKATA: MLAs on Monday got a draft copy of the Aparajita Bill, which seeks to punish all incidents of rape – including cases where the woman survives – with death or life in prison. State law minister Moloy Ghatak is likely to table the Aparajita Women, Child (West Bengal Criminal Law Amendment) Bill 2024 in…
NEW DELHI: Following the sexual assault against 2 minors in Thane district, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday claimed that there is not a day in Maharashtra where there is no news of crimes against women. Pawar said that the Badlapur incident involving the alleged sexual abuse of two kindergarten girls has…
