Lakhisarai (Bihar): "I have committed a big mistake." This was how Pradeep Kumar, the second person arrested in connection with the rape of a five-year-old girl, responded when asked how he felt about the crime. Pradeep, a 19-year-old "illiterate" who works as a mason in Delhi, was arrested from his maternal uncle's house in Bihar in the wee hours on Monday. According to his friend Manoj, who was arrested two...
10:46 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Mumbai: A 31-year-old man hailing from Bihar was arrested on Monday for allegedly raping his 21-year-old stepdaughter on several occasions for two months, at his house in suburban Goregaon, the police said. A trap was laid and the accused Rajesh Kusuva was arrested from near Ratna Hotel in Goregaon under IPC sections 376 (rape) and 506(2) criminal intimidation, police said. According to police, Rajesh had tied the knot with a...
10:18 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Protests against the rape of a 5-year-old girl in the national capital went on unabated on Monday despite the arrest of a second accused in the case. Anger against the city's police mounted, led by Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and voices demanding resignation of the force's chief Neeraj Kumar kept rising. On a day that saw Parliament being rocked by the issue, Delhi Police Commissioner defended...
09:08 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Nagpur: The 4-year-old, who was allegedly raped in Ghansour town of Madhya Pradesh, continues to be critical with severe brain injuries. She continues to be on mechanical ventilator and life support system. The child is still not able to breathe and is in a deep coma with no oxygen supply to the brain. The child was allegedly raped by a 35-year-old man on Wednesday after he lured her with a...
08:00 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: The shock over gruesome rape and brutality of a five-year-old girl on Monday resonated in the Rajya Sabha with members cutting across party lines pressing for stern action, including death penalty, to deal with such crimes even if it needs a relook at the new anti-rape law. The House took up an impromptu discussion on the issue during which members also suggested an all-party meeting to find ways...
07:18 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Are the new anti-rape laws ineffective? Women's rights activist Ranjana Kumari joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. How to change mindset among small town men who come to work in metros? Asked by: Honey A. The most effective way of addressing violence is through education. Gender sensitisation must be incorporated into school curriculum and training programmes are required in community centres and workplaces. Only once we...
06:43 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Pune: Even as protests continued in Delhi following the rape of a five-year-old girl, another case of crime against women has been reported from a village near Pune. A 20-year-old youth was arrested on Monday for allegedly raping a teenage in Shirur village near Pune. The accused reportedly raped the girl inside a classroom. Earlier on Sunday, doctors of a nursing home in Chinchwad town near Pune were arrested on...
05:50 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Silchar: A nine-year old girl was allegedly gangraped by two unidentified persons in Assam's Cachar district, police said on Monday. The nine-year old from Karimganj had gone to visit her grandfather in Pechachora village under Kallain police station of Katigora sub-division when she was kidnapped by two unidentified persons, with their faces covered, last evening, the sources said. The girl was taken to a house in Section 9 of Kallain...
02:10 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea of two accused in the December 16 gangrape case that the FIR and subsequent proceedings against them be quashed. Justice Pratibha Rani also upheld the order of a special court by which the plea of accused Mukesh and Akshay Singh against day-to-day trial was rejected. In their petition, they had sought quashing of FIR on the ground that police...
12:58 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: 8.03 PM: Delhi Police Commissioner admits police response in the rape case "was not as swift as desired". 5.43 PM: Second accused in Delhi minor rape case, Pradeep, to reach the national capital by Monday evening. 5.03 PM: Aam Aadmi Party's national convenor Arvind Kejriwal demands resignation of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar over rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi. Kejriwal...
11:22 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: 3.53 pm: Sitaram Yechury says, "What is happening is that 3 out of 4 registered rape cases go without being punished. It is not about policing and law and order only. It is some thing in the society that needs to be looked at also." "We are just not able to protect our women and children. What is this beastly act against a 5-year-old child? what is the...
11:00 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Bhopal: After the Ghansour rape case, two more cases of rape have been reported from Madhya Pradesh. A four-year-old girl was raped in Chhindwara district by her neighbour. The accused has been taken into custody. The second case was reported from the Khargone district, where a seven-year-old was raped and murdered. The accused has been identified as her cousin and is currently absconding. Meanwhile, the survivor in the Ghansour rape...
08:32 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Two more of the eight men who allegedly gang-raped a 13-year-old girl in Delhi in March 2013 have been arrested, taking the total to five, police on Sunday said. The girl, who attempted suicide on Saturday, is stated to stable in hospital. "We have arrested two people in the case," a police officer told IANS but refused to divulge any more information. Three people were arrested on Saturday,...
05:05 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Sunday said his party is open to discussing the possibility of death penalty for rapists. "This is a very serious matter. We are willing to discuss and consider this because what happened in this Delhi rape case is gruesome," he said, to a query if CPI-M agreed with Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj's demand for death penalty for...
04:55 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Two minor girls were raped in separate incidents in the national capital in the past three days, police said on Sundday. In the first incident, a 15-year-old girl was abducted and raped allegedly by two persons on knife-point in Samaipur Badli on Friday. The incident came to light on Saturday when the parents of the girl approached police. The victim, who was taken to a government hospital for...
03:53 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Khargone/Barwah: A seven-year-old girl was found raped and murdered in Madhya Pradesh with police suspecting the involvement of an uncle of hers in the crime. "The body of the girl was fished out today from Veda river near here", Khargone SP RP Singh told reporters. Police said Ramesh (27), the distant uncle of the victim, has emerged as the suspect as he has been missing since Saturday when the incident...
11:16 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Sangareddy: A rape victim who was in a state of mental depression committed suicide on Sunday afternoon at the Kohir mandal headquarters in Medak district. According to Zaheerabad Circle Inspector of Police Pulimamidi Sridhar Reddy, the 18-year-old girl who was raped by a 36-year-old driver called Shekhar in the wee hours of April 20 near Zaheerabad railway station, committed suicide at her village. She was discharged from hospital at about...
11:12 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Pune: A 22-year-old mentally challenged woman was raped allegedly by a ward boy at a nursing home whose doctors have been arrested on charge of trying to bribe the survivor's family to hush up the matter. The incident occurred at Walhekarwadi in Chinchwad town near Pune on April 16 in the nursing home run by Dr Vishal Sonawane (34) and his wife Dr Varsha (31) where the victim was undergoing...
10:54 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: BJP on Sunday charged that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his government lack the courage and the sensitivity needed to deal with issues like security of women and increasing frequency of rape cases in the capital and the rest of the country. Addressing a public meeting in New Delhi, BJP President Rajnath Singh said the UPA government is inching towards "zero sensitivity" towards the plight of women. "The...
10:23 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Metro closed down its Race Course station near Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence for public Sunday evening anticipating protests against the rape of a five-year-old girl. The station was closed at 6:45 pm, hours after a group of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) activists tried to stage protest at 7, Race Course Road, residence of the PM, demanding the removal of Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar in connection...
09:54 PM, Apr 21, 2013
