In a shocking incident, a four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her father's friend in Bangalore. The child was admitted to a hospital with bite marks and other injuries. ...
07:17 AM, Dec 14, 2012
British television star Jimmy Savile is suspected of carrying out an unprecedented number of sex offences including 31 rapes, police said on Wednesday in their most comprehensive review of the scandal. Revelations about Savile, who died last year, provoked outrage across Britain where he had been a household name since the 1960s. ...
01:02 PM, Dec 13, 2012
In another case of Northeast Indians being targeted, a theatre person from Manipur alleged that she was heckled by a crowd in Bangalore, that passed lewd and racist comments and abused her. What is even more shocking is that the policeman who she turned to for help allegedly ended up shouting back and shoving her and called her a nuisance. ...
12:28 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Three Goa policemen were suspended for allegedly exploiting commercial sex workers in Panaji, police said on Friday. Two head constables - Vaman Naik and Santosh Vengurlekar - and constable Vijay Gaikwad were suspended on Thursday after two commercial sex workers named them in their complaint to the crime branch, police said. ...
11:46 AM, Dec 07, 2012
An Indian software professional and his wife, who were convicted for "serious child abuse" of their seven-year-old son, have filed an appeal in a higher court in Norway. Chandrasekhar Vallabhaneni and his wife Anupama, who were arrested by police last month, were sentenced by Oslo District Court to jail terms for 18 months and 15 months respectively on Tuesday for gross or repeated maltreatment of their child/children by threats, violence...
03:25 PM, Dec 06, 2012
An Indian couple from Andhra Pradesh has been sentenced to jail by a Norwegian court for mistreating their seven-year-old son. ...
09:27 PM, Dec 04, 2012
The Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday said that the Indian embassy in Norway was in constant touch with the Indian couple from Andhra Pradesh sentenced to jail for alleged child abuse. A statement by the MEA said, "Our embassy in Norway has been in touch with the Indian nationals involved in the case. Even during the course of their detention, the consular officer has been in touch with them....
08:27 PM, Dec 04, 2012
An Oslo court on Tuesday convicted the Indian couple from Andhra Pradesh who were facing charges of child abuse. The father was sentenced to 18 months and the mother to 15 months in jail by the court after being convicted of burning and hitting their seven-year-old son with belt. ...
03:40 PM, Dec 04, 2012
The Norway Police has claimed that the Indian couple from Andhra Pradesh facing charges of child abuse burnt and hit their seven-year-old son with belt. CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discussed whether the method of parenting is specific to a certain culture on the show. ...
11:36 AM, Dec 04, 2012
An Oslo court is set to rule on the Indian couple Andhra Pradesh facing charges of child abuse burnt and hit their seven-year-old son with belt on Tuesday. ...
07:27 AM, Dec 04, 2012
The Norway Police claimed that the Indian couple from Andhra facing charges of child abuse burnt and hit their seven-year-old son with belt. ...
11:59 PM, Dec 03, 2012
Watch today's top stories with CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai. ...
11:57 PM, Dec 03, 2012
The Norway police on Monday claimed that the Indian couple from Andhra Pradesh facing charges of child abuse burnt and hit their seven-year-old son with belt. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Oslo police official Curt Lir said that the charges against the Vallabhanenis are from 2007 to March 2012. ...
06:40 PM, Dec 03, 2012
A Norway court has reserved its order on the sentencing of an Indian couple accused of child abuse till Tuesday. The couple, hailing from Andhra Pradesh, was arrested for reprimanding its seven-year-old son for wetting his pants. They now face up to one-and-a-half-years in prison. The prosecution has asked for a 15-month jail term for the mother and a 18-month term for the father for allegedly ill-treating their son repeatedly....
05:35 PM, Dec 03, 2012
The Child and Women Development Ministry has recommended action against four senior officials following allegations of sexual exploitation of Mumbai's Navjeevan Mahila Vastigruha (women welfare home) inmates. Maharashtra government has suspended the welfare home caretaker and ordered the transfer of two others. ...
04:17 PM, Nov 29, 2012
A few days ago reports of women inmates being sexually abused at the Navjeevan Mahila Vastigruha (women welfare home) in Mumbai had shocked the metropolis. Following the allegations a committee consisting of Superintendent of Police Dr Rashmi Karandikar and psychologist Dr Harish Shetty was set up by the Bombay High Court, which has now submitted its report. ...
12:06 PM, Nov 29, 2012
London: The BBC reached a settlement on Thursday with the Conservative politician wrongly implicated in a child sex abuse scandal. The BBC has already apologised for linking 70-year-old Alistair McAlpine, a member of the House of Lords, to child sex abuse that happened decades ago in Wales. The mistaken report, broadcast nearly two weeks ago, has caused turmoil within BBC management ranks and led to the resignation of its chief....
09:06 AM, Nov 16, 2012
London: The beleaguered BBC is asking its staff to tone down the tweets. Britain's national broadcaster is in crisis over its bungled reporting of a child sex-abuse scandal. Its top executive has resigned, two more have temporarily stepped down and others are facing disciplinary proceedings. Unsurprisingly, some of the BBC's 20,000 staff, including well-known personalities, have taken to social media to discuss its woes. The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on...
07:40 AM, Nov 14, 2012
More heads are rolling at the BBC over its false report over a child abuse sex scandal aired on its flagship programme Newsnight. Two more top editorial employees resigned on Tuesday pending a probe. ...
06:35 PM, Nov 13, 2012
London: The bungling of reports that powerful Britons sexually abused children has thrown one of the largest and most respected broadcasters in the world into a deep crisis. It is hard to overstate the importance of the BBC in British society; its influence stretches throughout the former British empire and beyond. Over the years, the BBC has been behind almost all of the UK's broadcast milestones, serving as a voice...
03:42 AM, Nov 12, 2012
