Jaipur: A Kerala Police team on Saturday arrived in Rajasthan's capital Jaipur with former Odisha police chief's son Bitti Mohanty, who jumped parole in 2006 while serving a sentence in a jail here for raping a German tourist. Mohanty, son of former Indian Police Service officer BB Mohanty, was brought to Jaipur in the morning and taken to the Central Jail, a Rajasthan Police officer said. "He will be presented in a court Monday," said the officer.
Kerala Police arrested Mohanty in March from Kannur in Kerala for jumping parol and living under a disguise in south India. A Rajasthan police officer said, "A case was registered against Mohanty in Jaipur for jumping parole."
He said soon after his arrest in Kannur, Rajasthan Police rushed a team to Kerala to bring him to the city but their counterparts in Kerala could not give his custody at that time as they themselves were completing the investigation, he said. "Our team returned after serving a production warrant that required Kerala Police to bring Mohanty to Jaipur," said the officer.
Mohanty was arrested for raping a German tourist in Rajasthan's Alwar district March 21, 2006. He was convicted April 12, 2006. He was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment on rape charges and lodged in Jaipur jail. In November 2006, he secured parole to meet his ailing mother and did not return. Mohanty's father served as director general, home guards, and fire services at the time when Mohanty committed the crime....
09:14 PM, May 25, 2013
Patna: A friend of a woman who was gangraped by three men in Bihar has married the survivor, police said on Saturday. Four days after the 22-year-old woman was gangraped and her friend beaten up by three men in the state's Banka district, the survivor's friend married her at a temple late on Friday. "The wedding was solemnised in a simple way at the temple in the presence of dozens...
01:13 PM, May 25, 2013
Lucknow: A mother and her three-year-old daughter were killed in Uttar Pradesh late on Friday after they jumped off a speeding truck while resisting a sexual assault by the driver, police said Saturday. The incident took place near the Chitaura toll plaza in Fatehpur, 120 km from Lucknow, after Raj Kumari, 30, along with son Deepak, daughter Meena and husband Rakesh hitched a ride in a truck. After travelling for...
11:28 AM, May 25, 2013
Shimla: Expressing concern over rising incidents of crime against women and children, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday called for effective measures to ensure their safety and security. Underlining the need for arresting the moral decline in society, the president told students of Himachal Pradesh University here to find answers for reversing the degradation of values. Favouring imparting moral and quality education, he said: "Our universities have the capability to shape...
03:55 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: A Naval Board of Inquiry on Friday started probe into the charges made by the wife of a senior Navy officer that she was being forced by her husband into getting "sexually involved" with his colleagues. The BoI venue was shifted from Karwar in Karnataka to Delhi and during the day-long proceedings, the two sides, the woman and her husband, who is a Navy officer, questioned each other,...
10:24 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: A man allegedly raped a class 10 student living in his neighbourhood inside her home in Delhi's Vivek Vihar colony. The heinous crime took place when the girl was alone at home as here family members had gone out. The victim has alleged that her neighbour forcefully entered her house and raped her. According to sources, family members lodged the complaint when the girl narrated the entire incident...
02:21 PM, May 24, 2013
Badaun: Son of a Samajwadi Party leader was sentenced to life imprisonment and a penalty of Rs one lakh was also imposed on him by a local court in Badaun for raping a teenaged girl. The 15-year-old victim was raped by Varun Bharadwaj alias Chinu, son of former SP block head Patanjali Bhardwaj, in Alapur area on December 27, 2010, prosecution counsel Gyan Swaroop Gupta said. After hearing both the...
12:25 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that departmental enquiry has been initiated against seven policemen in connection with the December 16 gangrape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in New Delhi. Those policemen, who were manning the PCR van in the locality through which the bus had passed, have also come under the scanner of enquiry. Appearing for Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA),...
04:06 AM, May 24, 2013
Thane: The Thane city police arrested a doctor from a hospital on Wednesday for allegedly molesting a patient, the police said on Thursday. Sub-inspector AP Daundkar of the Naupada police station told PTI on Thursday that the patient, a 45-year-old housewife, had got herself admitted to the Sahayog Hospital in the Naupada locality. Allegedly, on Tuesday when nurses had left for the day, the accused who was on the night...
01:46 AM, May 24, 2013
Imphal: It has been 55 years since the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) was first introduced. The longest demonstration against it has been on in Manipur with Irom Sharmila on a fast for over 12 years now. This April, Rashida Manjoo, the United Nations envoy on Violence Against Women listened to a group of 40 women, including the mother of Manorama Devi. In 2004, Manorama, a 32-year-old was...
08:41 AM, May 23, 2013
Hyderabad: An Indian Revenue Service officer and three others, including an inspector, were on Wednesday booked in connection with alleged manhandling of a woman here. IRS officer Veerbhadram, suspended inspector P Srinivas Reddy and two others were booked under relevant sections of the IPC on a complaint lodged by the woman, a Government employee, over the incident, whose footage was broadcast by a local TV channel, they said. Reddy, attached...
08:08 AM, May 23, 2013
Jabalpur: A software engineer from Hyderabad, who had come to Jabalpur, to attend a hearing in the family court was allegedly abducted and gangraped, police said on Wednesday. According to the woman's complaint, on Tuesday night when she was coming from Katni accompanied by a friend, who went ahead of her while talking on his mobile, two youths on motorcycle took her to a deserted place and gangraped her until...
11:56 PM, May 22, 2013
Bareilly: A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a farmhouse owner and his domestic help in Bhojipura area, police sources said on Wednesday. The minor was raped by Pappu and his domestic help Prem Shanker on Tuesday while she was grazing cattle along with her mother, they said. Shanker was nabbed by local residents when the girl's mother raised an alarm and was thrashed before being handed over to the...
11:25 AM, May 22, 2013
Lucknow: A 17-year-old minor girl in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit is battling for her life after three young men allegedly set her on fire for resisting an attempt to molest her on Monday evening. The girl has been admitted in the hospital in a very serious condition and is undergoing treatment. The heinous crime took place on Monday night when three youths tried to sexually harass the girl. When the girl...
11:09 AM, May 22, 2013
Srinagar: A self-styled "religious preacher" was arrested from Jammu and Kashmir's Badgam district for repeated sexual exploitation of four minor girls at an institute he ran, police said on Tuesday. "Police in Badgam district received a joint complaint by four minor girls who were reading in an institute claiming religious preaching headed by Gulzar Ahmed Bhat, son of Ghulam Qadir Bhat, resident of Latter Chadur (Shamasabad) Khan Sahib. The minor...
05:15 AM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Tuesday refuted the allegations of the four accused in the December 16 gangrape case in a special court that the victim was not assaulted by iron rods and she died before being taken to Singapore. "It is wrong to suggest that I had not taken the opinion of the doctors during the lifetime of the victim, despite various opportunities, as the said weapons were allegedly...
10:14 PM, May 21, 2013
Bundi: Organisations across the country running shelter homes for girls will soon be subjected to tight monitoring to ensure that no crime or abuse is committed at such facilities, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has said. NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma told reporters that she will write to the directors general of police of all states and other officials concerned to "initiate an inquiry into the functioning of shelter homes...
07:42 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Ten years after a sexual harassment row, Phaneesh Murthy is back in the spotlight for harassment again. The 49-year-old IT industry veteran was sacked as President and CEO of iGATE - the California-based company he helped found. iGATE management says, "The board's decision was made as a result of an investigation by outside legal counsel, engaged by the board, of the facts and circumstances surrounding a relationship Mr...
07:40 PM, May 21, 2013
Lucknow: A teenaged girl was allegedly set ablaze by three youths after she objected to eve-teasing in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit district, the police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday night at Mohammad Beni Chowdhury area when the 17-year-old girl resisted the eve-teasing by three youths - Munna, Adnan and Amar, after which they poured kerosene on her and set her on fire, the police said. The girl...
07:29 PM, May 21, 2013
Melbourne: Four Indian-origin men accused of gangraping a young girl today appeared in a court in New Zealand. The men - Amir Chand, 25, Harvinder Singh, 22, Kamaljeet Singh, 27, and Sumit Vermani, 26 - are defending the charges of raping the girl in April 2011, Fairfax NZ News reported. The woman, then aged 19, was raped on the day of the famous racing event in Hamilton, she said during...
07:18 PM, May 21, 2013
