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…
THANE: A rail roko caused a 10-hour train disruption in Badlapur on Tuesday when crowds of protesters answered a bandh call over the sexual abuse of two four-year-old girls at a school there and subsequent police delays in taking up the case.The police said around 2,000 men and women descended on the tracks and they…
