Palanpur: A minor girl was allegedly raped by a man living in Fanwara locality near the victim's house in Deesa, around 28 Kms from Palanpur, the police said. The incident happened on Sunday when the 14-year-old girl was alone at her home and the accused Kishore Panchal (25) lured her, the police said. According to the complaint filed by the mother of the victim, the accused took her to the...
08:10 PM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has granted 13 days parole to Santosh Kumar Singh, undergoing life sentence in the Priyadarshini Mattoo rape and murder case, to appear in his LLM examination. The court directed Singh to furnish a personal bond of Rs 25,000 before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Saket while allowing his plea against the single judge's order dismissing his application for parole. A bench of Chief Justice...
10:25 AM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: The youth, who allegedly shot dead a teenaged girl in her south Delhi home, was enraged at her for ignoring him after she came to know that he was a sweeper and a school dropout, police said on Saturday. Sakshi was shot dead by Subhash, a distant relative of the victim, in her Munirka house on Friday. Subhash, the cousin of victim's sister-in-law, was arrested from Ghitoli village...
09:09 PM, May 11, 2013
Salem: In a shocking incident, an 80-year old woman was allegedly raped by a 41-year-old man following which she was admitted to a hospital in a serious condition. The woman, a widow, is battling for life at a government hospital in Salem, police said on Saturday. The accused Palanivel, a vegetable vendor, of Malliyakari in the district was detained by the local people and handed over to police who arrested...
04:37 PM, May 11, 2013
Gurgaon: Three people were arrested on Friday for gang-raping two minor girls and shooting videos of the scene to blackmail them, police said. The two girls, both aged 15 and class 10 students, were gang-raped by the three youths of village Seinka Gudana under Pataudi police station, some 26 km from Gurgaon city. One of the girls had last week gone to her to her classmate's house for some books....
05:14 AM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: An 18-year-old girl was shot dead in her south Delhi residence on Friday morning allegedly by a distant relative, who was "stalking" her for last five years. Pinki, a class XII student in government school at RK Puram Sector 5, was killed by the youth at her home in Budh Vihar area of Munirka, police said. The youth, later identified as Subhash, entered the house, closed the girl's...
01:10 AM, May 11, 2013
Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Police chief on Friday ordered a probe into the alleged assault on a woman by an IRS official in the presence of a Police Inspector, the footage of which was broadcast by a local TV channel. "I told my DCP (Balanagar Zone) to conduct an enquiry and submit a report to me. Based on that we will take a decision. As per the TV footage, the IRS...
12:05 AM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: An 18-year-old girl studying in Class 12 was shot at by a man on Friday morning in Munirka area of South Delhi. The girl succumbed to her injuries at Safdarjung Hospital. The alleged shooter came to her house, called her and then shot at her. The victim's aunt who was at her house tried to chase the man but he ran away and is absconding now. The incident...
01:14 PM, May 10, 2013
Etawah: A 21-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped on Thursday in a moving van by four youths, who later dumped her in district hospital in Etawah and escaped. The victim, a first-year graduate student, was picked up by the four youths when she was returning home after withdrawing money from a bank on Thursday afternoon, police said. However, later, the van reportedly met with an accident in which the girl was...
01:46 AM, May 10, 2013
Bilaspur: A police officer was arrested for allegedly repeatedly raping a 23-year-old girl over four years on the pretext of marrying her, police said on Wednesday. "Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Ashutosh Kaushik (29), posted at Bilaspur SP office, was apprehended on Tuesday on the charge of rape after the victim filed complaint against him," SP Ratanlal Dangi said. According to the police, the girl, a resident of Kasturba Nagar in...
03:35 AM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: A 'tantrik' has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Delhi court for repeatedly raping his 14-year-old daughter, relying solely on her testimony. Additional Sessions Judge TR Naval awarded the jail term to the Ashok Nagar resident for raping his minor daughter, observing that the strained relations between the parents may be a reason for sexual assault on the girl by her father. "It is held...
05:03 PM, May 08, 2013
Cleveland: Three women who went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s, had been tied up and held in a home just south of downtown before being found on Monday, and three brothers were arrested, police said. One of the women frantically told a 911 dispatcher the person who had taken her was gone, and she pleaded for police officers to come...
10:59 AM, May 07, 2013
Shillong: A minor girl was allegedly raped by an unidentified armed man in Boldamgre village in Meghalaya's Garo Hills district, police said on Monday. A group of over 15 people armed with daggers, machetes and other weapons from Assam's Hat-Singimari area raided the village, located about 12 km from Garobadha town near Shillong, and went from house to house attacking its inhabitants on Sunday, they said. The girl, who ran...
10:01 AM, May 07, 2013
Ranchi: A man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 14-year-old step-daughter for the last seven months, police said on Monday. A woman neighbour helped the police in arresting accused Mahendra Sonar. Sonar was married to a woman in Giridih. He later came in contact with a divorced woman in Ranchi and fathered two children -- a three-year-old boy and six-month old daughter, they said. The accused allegedly raped the...
12:40 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court, hearing the December 16 gangrape case on Monday directed the Tihar Jail authorities to file a detailed report on the death of Ram Singh, one of the six accused in the sensational crime. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna's order came after counsel VK Anand, appearing for accused Mukesh (Ram Singh's brother), told the court that jail authorities have not yet complied with the court's March...
11:41 PM, May 06, 2013
Etah: A minor girl was allegedly raped by a 20-year-old youth in Hayatpurmafi village in the district, police said on Monday. The 15-year-old girl, who had came to the village to attend a marriage ceremony, was raped by the accused, identified as Devendra while she was slleping on the terrace, they said. On hearing the cries of the girl, her family members rushed and caught hold of the accused and...
07:14 PM, May 06, 2013
Sydney: An India-born doctor in Australia, convicted of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old patient, has walked free from an immigration detention centre. Suhail Durani, 36, was convicted of inappropriately touching the patient and asking her indecent questions in the February 20, 2010, incident at the Royal Perth Hospital. He was held at the centre after he was released from the Casuarina prison south of Perth in February, 2013 and the Australian...
04:10 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: An eight-year-old girl was raped by a 40-year-old neighbour in New Delhi, police said on Sunday. The accused is on the run. Suspect Rajinder, a jobless man who is the neighbour of the girl in Sarai Rohilla area of north Delhi, lured the victim to his house on Saturday evening and raped her, police said. "The girl's parents approached us on Saturday night," said a police officer, adding...
10:33 AM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: A 24-year-old pregnant woman was strangled allegedly by her jobless husband who surrendered before investigators on Sunday with police suspecting it to be a case of dowry death. The incident was reported from Najafgarh on Saturday night and the deceased has been identified as Pinky. Vicky (30) surrendered before police this morning. Pinky's family alleged that Vicky used to beat her for dowry, police said. Vicky said that...
02:02 AM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: With the trial in the Delhi gangrape case "almost 90 per cent complete", the court verdict is expected to come by the end of May, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said. In an interview with a news channel Neeraj Kumar said: "The trial of December 16 (2012) case is almost 90 per cent complete and judgment is expected by the end of May." On December 16, 2012, a...
10:46 PM, May 05, 2013
