New Delhi: A 33-year-old man allegedly raped his 16-year-old minor niece on Monday night after forcing her to drink a glass of drug-laced milk. The accused Ali Hasan had called his niece from Sabhapur to his house in Mustafabad for some work. But on the night of May 27 Ali Hasan allegedly forced the girl to drink a glass of milk in which he had mixed drugs. He then raped...
12:58 PM, May 30, 2013
Hyderabad: A 35-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide inside a police station at Tekulapalli in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, police said. Sakhi, who had been called along with two other men for questioning in connection with an attempt-to-murder case, panicked and hanged herself by a saree inside the police station's toilet. Her husband blamed one of the police constables for the incident. A case of abetment to suicide...
04:25 AM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a response from the city government and police for the probe agency's failure to register an FIR on the charge of gangrape after a teenage girl from West Bengal was rescued from a brothel earlier in May. A division bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Jayant Nath sought police reply by July 10 while taking suo motu cognizance of...
03:48 AM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: A 13-year-old girl was raped by a security guard who lived in her neighbourhood, police said on Wednesday. The man has been arrested. The incident happened at Punjabi Bagh area in west Delhi on Tuesday evening. The girl who worked as a domestic help in the house was lured by Raju Yadav, 30, to an isolated place near her house and raped. Later, he fled from the scene....
03:26 AM, May 30, 2013
Gurgaon: A man was arrested in Gurgaon for killing his two-year-old daughter after a fight with his wife, police said. Sanjay Kumar, 25, a labourer, smashed the head of his minor daughter on the ground in Palam Vihar area Tuesday night, police said. "The accused suspected his wife of having an illicit relationship and often fought with her over the issue. On Tuesday night, he again had an argument with...
02:26 AM, May 30, 2013
Anand: Ten people suffered burn injuries in Anand after they were forced to touch a hot spade at a temple to convince a villager that they had not stolen cash from his residence, police said on Wednesday. A complaint was registered on Wednesday with the Anand rural police by Bhula Thakor, one of the ten people who suffered burn injuries, against Soma Thakor. A month and a half ago, Rs...
01:26 AM, May 30, 2013
Vadodara: Police have arrested a man for murdering his wife at Anklav town in Anand district. Dipika Patel, the victim, died on May 17 and her husband, Bhavesh V Patel, had told the police that she had committed suicide by consuming pesticide. However, the autopsy report, which became available on Tuesday, said she had been strangled. Bhavesh allegedly confessed to have killed her out of suspicion about her character. Further...
01:05 AM, May 30, 2013
The Shiv Sena-run Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Tuesday provisionally cleared a proposal banning the display of lingerie on mannequins in the city. ...
11:52 PM, May 29, 2013
Beijing: A major sex scandal has rocked schools in China as a number of teachers have been held for molesting girl students in recent days, prompting the apex court to strengthen crackdown on crimes against juveniles. Yang Shifu, a 55-year-old teacher from Tongbo County in Henan province, was arrested on Wednesday for molesting several of his students since last spring, local officials said. Yang was detained on May 23 after...
11:08 PM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: Women in the national capital are scared of going to police stations to register their complaints, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Wednesday. "Increasing cases of crime against women remain a matter of great concern. Women find it difficult to go to police station to register their complaint as they fear that they won't be heard," Dikshit said while admitting that improving relationship between women and police remains...
07:09 PM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Wednesday submitted its status report in the gangrape of a 5-year-old girl. The police sought more time to submit a detailed report on why there was a delay in registering an FIR. The next hearing is on August 20. The police also conceded that its Assistant Commissioner of Police Ahlawat had made a mistake by slapping a woman who was protesting against the gangrape...
06:40 PM, May 29, 2013
Thodupuzha: In yet another twist to the nearly two-decade-old Suryanelli sex scandal, the lone convict in the case, Dharmarajan on Wednesday retracted his allegation that Congress leader and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien was involved in the case. In an affidavit filed through his lawyer in the Sessions Court at Thodupuzha in Idukki district, Dharmarajan said he made the allegation as the reporter of a Malayalam TV channel barraged...
06:32 PM, May 29, 2013
Bangalore: Indian Institute of Bangalore (IIM) Bangalore has sacked its Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) accused of sexually harassing a lady doctor. The woman had been sacked after she had filed the complaint. She, employed to cater to the IIM-Bangalore students and faculty, later turned Citizen Journalist on CNN-IBN to highlight the case after the institute failed to take strict action against officer. In an email to all his staff, IIM-B...
04:30 PM, May 29, 2013
Mumbai: After the crackdown by the Maharashtra government on the doctors allegedly indulging in aborting female fetus in the state, the racket has now shifted to the neighbouring states. The racket of aborting female fetus is now operating in the states bordering Maharashtra as the doctors have set up their shops there. An NGO has exposed the alleged racket in a sting operations. The doctors take a huge fee and...
11:04 AM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: A 16-year-old girl who was brought to the national capital on the pretext of getting her a job was gangraped repeatedly by her cousin and his friends, police said Tuesday. The girl was brought from Gumla in Jharkhand by her cousin and his friend. According to police, the girl was found unconscious near a temple near Kashmiri Gate metro station in north Delhi. Her cousin had got her...
11:40 PM, May 28, 2013
Ghaziabad: In what started out as a heated argument over a parking space, ended in a tragedy a Imother and her son were shot dead by three men in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad. The three men fired at the woman identified as Rajbala and her son Ajay in Masuri locality of Ghaziabad on Monday. The mother-son duo was taken to a hospital where Ajay died during treatment on Tuesday morning and...
05:06 PM, May 28, 2013
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police said on Monday that a special investigating team (SIT) has been constituted to probe the alleged sexual exploitation of four minor girls by a fake "soul healer" in central Kashmir's Badgam district. A police officer told IANS that the SIT would probe the sexual exploitation of the minor girls by Gulzar Ahmed Bhat, who headed an institute where the girls studied. Meanwhile, a court extended...
05:45 AM, May 28, 2013
Krishnagar: A man was arrested on Monday for allegedly raping his deaf and mute daughter-in-law in Nadia district, police said. The 26-year-old woman, a deaf and dumb inmate of Welfare Home in Hooghly district was married to Bhola Moira (35) the deaf and mute son of Mahabir Moira of Kalyani in July 9, 2012. After her marriage to Bhola, the survivor alleged that she was repeatedly raped by her father-in-law...
09:18 PM, May 27, 2013
Mumbai: The girl who was a victim of an acid attack at Mumbai's Bandra station early this month is now said to be in a critical condition. Her lungs have collapsed due to the holes that formed post the attack. Doctors have shifted her onto life support. The victim had also lost an eye after acid was thrown on her when she got down from the train with her relatives....
08:49 PM, May 27, 2013
Kolkata: After struggling for more than a year to get a job, the Park Street rape survivor has stood up against her circumstances and is now empowering survivors like her through a helpline. "I have this mission of empowering rape victims like me. With this job, I embark on a new journey," she said, adding that the work is also helping her heal the past wounds. Besides handling the pain...
01:39 PM, May 27, 2013
