Jammu: Two school teachers were arrested from different districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday in connection with two different cases. In Kishtwar, a teacher at a girls school was arrested for allegedly attempting to rape a student. The school has been shut for a few days. Meanwhile, in Baramulla, another teacher was arrested for allegedly verbally abusing a class 10 student, who had not performed well in his examinations....
09:52 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Namakkal: Cracking the whip on child abusers who run homes for the helpless, officials here closed down a home following complaints of sexual abuse. "The Joy Karunai Illam, which functioned at Vasanthapuram, off the Tiruchy-Namakkal road, near here, was closed down after an inquiry proved allegations of sexual abuse," district child protection officer (DCPO) M Selvam told Express on Monday. Incidents of abuse in the home, where 21 children stayed,...
09:50 AM, Sep 04, 2012
London: Thousands of Indian and other non-EU students are facing an uncertain situation due to the possibility of a major university here losing its licence to admit overseas students as part of a crackdown on student visa abuse. The London Metropolitan University, which has offices in New Delhi and Chennai, is one of the major destinations for Indian students coming to the UK. The university's licence to admit non-EU was...
10:28 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Indore: A youth was on Tuesday arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a minor girl in Indore, police said. One Chaman (21) forcibly took the eight-year-old girl, a rag picker, to a secluded place and sexually abused her last week in Bhanwarkua area of the city, police said. The girl's parents filed an FIR in the incident on Monday, following which police nabbed the accused. The girl was sent for a...
05:40 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Mumbai: In a chilling reminder of the death of battered baby Falak, another case of a two-year-old who died after being allegedly abused by her parents has come to light in Mumbai. The postmortem report revealed shocking facts that the baby had sustained injuries all over the body including burns, cuts, branding and swelling. "We have filed an accidental death report and are awaiting certain reports to proceed with our...
03:20 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Mumbai: In a chilling reminder of the death of battered baby Falak, another case of a two-year-old who died after being allegedly abused by her parents has come to light in Mumbai. The postmortem report revealed shocking facts that the baby had sustained injuries all over the body including burns, cuts, branding and swelling. "We have filed an accidental death report and are awaiting certain reports to proceed with our...
04:43 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Mumbai: Marriage, relationship and love are knotty issues, often made more tangled by actions of individuals. The Bandra Metropolitan Magistrate's court last week issued summons to a Dharavi resident for having an affair with his stepbrother's wife. The woman, Rita, got married to her brother-in-law while her divorce case from her first husband remains pending in the Bandra Family Court. In June, she bore the brother-in-law a son, whose birth...
02:56 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Boston: The men came from different walks of life on two continents: a children's puppeteer in Florida, a hotel manager in Massachusetts, an emergency medical technician in Kansas, a day care worker in the Netherlands. In all, 43 men have been arrested over the past two years in a horrific, far-flung child porn network that unraveled like a sweater with a single loose thread. In this case, the thread was...
09:14 AM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: Days after the shocking stories of abuse at the Apna Ghar shelter home in Rohtak, Haryana, another shelter in Karnal has been shut down after allegations of sexual and physical abuse surfaced. A case has been registered against Monica Das, who runs the Apna Ghar shelter in Karnal. All the inmates, 6 boys and 5 girls, have been shifted to other shelter homes. A medical examination showed that...
06:42 AM, Aug 04, 2012
London: An Indian-origin postman has received a hefty 100,000 pounds payout after he exposed "endemic racism" at his UK office, where Asian workers were labelled "cockroaches" and "vermin". Abdul Musa blew the whistle on problems at the Canterbury Street sorting office where he worked in Blackburn, Lancashire between 2006 and 2007. On Tuesday an employment tribunal ruled that Musa was racially victimised by his colleagues and the judge blasted Royal...
06:57 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: A teacher at a private school in Bangalore has been accused of sexually abusing several of his female students. The Hindi teacher who began teaching just a month ago, is accused of passing lewd remarks at class IX students and physically abusing them. The victims allege he threatened to fail them in their exams if they revealed his conduct. The incident came to light after two of the...
06:56 AM, Jul 29, 2012
Hyderabad: A 27-year-old hostel warden has caned a 10-year-old Class III student, suspecting the boy of stealing his mobile phone. The boy has been hospitalised with serious injuries on his hands and legs. The incident happened at Nandanavanam in Meerpet police limits in Saroornagar mandal, near here, on Sunday. According to the police, the parents lodged a complaint with the Meerpet police stating that the hostel warden had beaten their...
01:13 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Washington/Bhubaneswar: A senior Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Surendra Prasad Mohapatra, who is in the US on a training course, has been detained by police in Pennsylvania following a woman staff's complaint of "sexual assault" at a hotel where he was staying. The incident is reported to have happened on Tuesday night following which the officer was put under detention by the local police, sources said on Thursday. Mohapatra is...
02:33 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Chennai: A 57-year-old teacher was arrested on charges of sexually abusing a seven-year-old student on Monday. Police said the boy, a student of Class III in a private school in Saidapet opened up to an uncle about the abuse he suffered under the accused, Reuban Ravikumar, a teacher in the same school. The behaviour of the accused came to light when the family of the boy noticed a change in...
12:29 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Kochi: The state government is gearing up to launch the State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights, which was in limbo for quite some time. The commission has been authorised to handle the cases on child rights violation. The proposal has been sent to the Finance Department for the final review. Once the approval is obtained, the commission will be launched within a month, Social Welfare Minister M K...
12:22 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Mumbai: Out of 44 persons picked up from a rave party in Mumbai on May 20 and put to medical tests, a total of 42 persons have been tested positive for drug abuse, including Indian legspinner Rahul Sharma and South Africa's Wayne Parnell who played in the fifth edition of IPL for Pune Warriors India. Of the 42 persons, 35 have been tested positive for cannabis, three for cannabis and...
09:25 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Kolkata: In a relief for athlete Pinki Pramanik, the Calcutta High court has ordered a probe into the alleged violation of her rights. The court has asked cyber crime experts to probe the rights violation. The court has also asked the government to file an affidavit against the allegations of the rights violation within two weeks. The Calcutta High Court was hearing a PIL filed against the violation of Pinki...
03:26 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Kochi: Even as the illicit sale of medicines containing narcotic substances is showing a rising trend in the district, the Drug Control Department is groping in the dark. The authorities cited the inadequate number of drug inspectors to monitor the activities as the primary reason behind the issue. Licences of 11 medical shops were suspended in the last 45 days in the Ernakulam range covering Ernakulam, Alappuzha and Idukki districts....
01:23 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Hyderabad: A woman advocate lodged a complaint with city police alleging that her former boss had duped her by making a false promise of marriage. The woman, 30-year-old Annapurna, hails from Barkatpura. On Tuesday morning, she along with activists of womens associations staged a dharna in front of a senior advocate PS Saibabas house at Habsiguda. They alleged that Annapurana used to work as a junior advocate with the 48-year-old...
12:20 PM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: Ever since the coordinates of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) were aired on the Aamir Khan-hosted Satyamev Jayate, the AA office phones have been continuously ringing and their website has crashed because of an unprecedented spurt in traffic. But not many in India know about the entity and the help alcoholics or alcohol abusers can get there. AA, an international mutual aid movement founded in 1935, lists this as its...
10:24 AM, Jul 02, 2012
