Kohima: A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour on the pretext of giving her a lift in his vehicle in Kiphire district of Nagaland on Wednesday, police sources said. The 25-year-old accused, identified as Taliba Sangtam of Kiphire village, a driver by profession, has been arrested, the sources said. Sangtam offered a ride to the girl, who was returning from school after dropping her little brother, on the...
03:47 AM, Jun 13, 2013
Visakhapatnam: A 15-year-old boy was on Wednesday arrested on the charge of raping a minor girl Visakhapatnam, police said. The boy, who has been sent to a juvenile remand home, was taken into custody after the 14-year-old girl's parents lodged a complaint, they said. According to police, the boy and girl were neighbours in Thagarapuvalasa area of the district and were in a relationship. Some days ago, the girl asked...
02:46 AM, Jun 13, 2013
Kolkata: Observing that there is a need to "think of new measures to ensure the protection of women in rural areas", Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy on Wednesday said there is a marked difference in the extent of protests against crimes targeting women in rural and urban areas. Roy was comparing the country-wide protests following the brutal Delhi gangrape incident December 16, 2012 to the relatively low scale protest against...
01:45 AM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: West Bengal was in news once again for all the wrong reasons with the state recording the maximum number of crimes committed against women in 2012. According to National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 30,942 cases of crimes against women were registered in the state in 2012 which accounted for 12.67 percent of total crime against women in the country. West Bengal is followed by Andhra Pradesh...
01:26 AM, Jun 13, 2013
Kolkata: New data with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows West Bengal has the highest incidence of crimes against women. The data shows that 30,942 incidents of crime against women were reported in the state - the highest in the country. According to the data, Kolkata is the third most unsafe city, preceded by Delhi and Bangalore. There is a caveat here. The data pertains to 2012 and accounts...
01:42 PM, Jun 12, 2013
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has directed the state government to file an affidavit on the progress made in investigations in the Barasat gangrape and murder case. Seven people have been arrested so far. The court gave the order while hearing a PIL seeking an SIT probe. Last Friday, a 20-year-old college student was allegedly gangraped and murdered at Barasat in North 24 Parganas. The incident took place when the...
01:41 PM, Jun 12, 2013
Nadia: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped and strangulated to death while she was returning home from school in Nadia district, police said on Tuesday. According to police, the Class VII student had on Monday taken shelter under a railway shed in Gede area as it was raining. Her neighbour, Bimal Sardar, offered to share his umbrella to walk back home. Police said Sardar accompanied by two other associates took...
01:28 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Kochi: The Suryanelli rape survivor on Monday approached the Kerala High Court seeking to implead herself in the PIL which sought a direction for further investigation into the involvement of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien in the nearly two decade-old case. In her petition, the woman submitted that she was a proper and necessary party to the proceedings and the most affected person. Earlier, Kerala Government had filed an...
06:46 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Moga: A 20-year-old girl of Lohgarh village in Moga was allegedly kidnapped from Dharamkot bus stand by a youth, who raped her for a week at different places including Shimla, police said on Tuesday. The police on Monday evening registered a case of kidnapping and rape against the accused identified as Kapil Dev. Dev's father Kewal Singh, mother Baljit Kaur and one other relative have also been booked for conniving...
01:38 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Kochi: Criticising police for 'protecting' higher officials in the Navy, the Kerala High Court on Monday declined to grant anticipatory bail to Lt Ravi Kiran, whose wife had filed a police complaint here levelling charges of wife swapping by her husband and his superiors. Dismissing his anticipatory bail plea, Justice Kemal Pesha said that in a 'serious matter' like this involving a serious offence, the petitioner is not entitled for...
05:40 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: An 82-year-old man has been acquitted of the charge of raping his maid by a Delhi court, which said government should frame guidelines for regulating placement agencies supplying domestic help to curb instances of registration of such false cases. Additional Sessions Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma acquitted Delhi resident Krishan Lal Chawla observing that it is a "living example" of placement agency's maid raising false rape and threat allegation...
03:50 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Ghaziabad: A Delhi University (DU) student was allegedly gangraped by her driver and his friend in Ghaziabad in a car on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred around 8.30 pm in a car in a closed down factory in Sahibabad Industrial area on Saturday night. The survivor, who lives with her elder sister in Rajendra Nagar, had accompanied her driver Yogesh to collect the registration papers of...
07:40 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Bharatpur: The woman owner of the girls' hostel, where CCTV cameras were found installed near three toilets, has been booked and the building was sealed by police. Shalu Satija, aged around 30 years, was booked under section 354 of IPC (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) in the FIR lodged late Friday night by Minority Department officer Prem Singh. Shalu along with her husband...
06:39 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Kolkata: A college student was allegedly gangraped by four men in Barasat on the outskirts of Kolkata on Friday. The incident took place when the girl was returning home after taking an examination. The girl was reportedly dragged and raped in an under-construction building. Her body was found with injury marks near a neighbourhood canal. Police have now arrested three suspects and are looking for the fourth man. Meanwhile, locals...
03:26 PM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: All of 19, a teenaged girl was abandoned by her family after being raped by a neighbour last year. Weak and helpless in the ninth month of her pregnancy, she wants the state to take care of her child. "I've no money or means to support the child. My family has left me. The state should provide for this child," says the rape survivor. After a lower court...
07:29 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Columbus: A man accused of holding three women captive in his run-down home in Cleveland for a decade and fathering a child with one of them has been indicted on 329 charges including murder, kidnapping and rape, prosecutors said. A Cuyahoga County grand jury returned the indictment on Friday against Ariel Castro, a former school bus driver fired last fall. Castro, 52, is accused of kidnapping Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus...
07:02 AM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: A man, accused of misbehaving with an air hostess in a Delhi-bound flight of Thai Airways in 2004, has been acquitted by a court here due to lack of evidence against him. The court acquitted Arunabha Goswami, a resident of Madhya Pradesh, for the offence under section 354 (outraging woman's modesty) of IPC saying police have not given any "plausible explanation" about not recording the statement of any...
12:52 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Hyderabad: An eight-year-old girl suffered burn injuries after a man allegedly threw acid on her, while she was begging at Jagatgirigutta area of Hyderabad on Friday, police said. According to police, the accused Narasimha, was in a drunken state when the incident took place. When the minor girl, who is dumb, came to Narasimha seeking alms, he threw acid on her, they said. The girl, who sustained burn injuries on...
10:20 PM, Jun 07, 2013
New Delhi: A 15-year-old girl from Delhi was allegedly gangraped and filmed by two men in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad town, police said on Thursday. The girl, a resident of the capital's Pandav Nagar area, was on May 31 offered a joy ride on a bike by her neighbour Fakira, who took her to a house in Ghaziabad where his nephew Pradeep was already present. The victim in her complaint filed...
01:26 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Manali (HP): Three Nepalese men working as truck drivers were on Thursday arrested for allegedly gangraping a 30-year-old US national in Manali on Monday. The accused were arrested in the wee hours and the tipper used by them for perpetrating the crime has been seized, police said. The arrested persons identified as Arjun (22), Lakki (24) and Som Bahadur (24) are from Nepal, Superintendent of Police, Kullu, Vinod Dhawan said....
01:50 PM, Jun 06, 2013
