Shillong: Meghalaya Excise Minister Zenith Sangma on Tuesday admitted that he did not know about the legal age for alcohol consumption. "I have no information on the legal age, but the provision of law will be enforced," he told legislators, while replying to a cut motion in the Assembly moved by National People's Party (NPP) legislator James K Sangma. Excise officials told IANS that the legal age for consuming alcohol...
11:57 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Panaji: Five people were arrested in Goa on Tuesday for drugging and raping a 15-year girl who is suspected to be known to some of the accused, police said. The incident took place in Mapusa town, a short distance from Panaji, police said, refusing to give any more details about when it took place or the identity and age of the arrested accused. Deputy Superintendent of Police Seraphin Dias said...
11:12 PM, Apr 16, 2013
A 10-year-old girl and her mother were put behind the bars when they reached a police station in Bulandshahr to file a rape complaint. ...
11:59 PM, Apr 11, 2013
A 10-year-old girl and her mother were put behind the bars when they reached a police station in Bulandshahr to file a rape complaint. ...
12:11 AM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: Taking suo motu cognisance of the Bulandshahr minor rape case, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to explain why a minor rape victim was locked up in the jail when she approached the police to file a complaint. The apex court has asked the state government to submit its reply by Monday. The 10-year-old girl and her mother were put behind the bars when...
12:16 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Bulandshahr: Police on Tuesday arrested a man for allegedly raping a 10-year-old, who was put behind bars when she and her mother went to report the crime. The child and her mother, who spent several hours behind the bars, were freed only after locals created an uproar. Two women constables have been suspended while two sub-inspectors, including the station-in-charge, have been sent to police lines following the incident. "The child...
01:22 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Bulandshahr: A ten-year-old rape survivor was put behind bars by the Bulandshahr police in Uttar Pradesh when she approached them for help. The child and her mother had gone to a women's police station to file the complaint of the rape. The child and her mother, who spent several hours behind the bars, were freed only after locals created an uproar. Two women constables have been suspended while two sub-inspectors,...
10:17 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Thane: A 41-year-old man was arrested from the powerloom town of Bhiwandi for allegedly subjecting his mentally-challenged step-daughter to sexual abuse, police said on Thursday. "Kasim Hamid Shaikh allegedly used to rape the 14-year-old repeatedly at his house in Evai village in the district over a period of time," a police official said. He was apprehended on Wednesday after the girl lodged a complaint against Shaikh with the help of...
11:21 AM, Apr 04, 2013
A married man has been arrested for allegedly trying to rape two young girls in Loni area of the district in Ghaziabad on Monday, police said. Narendra, a resident of Ankur Vihar Colony in Loni , was arrested for allegedly trying to rape two girls, aged 10 and 11 years, police said. ...
04:53 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Thane: A 17-year-old disabled girl was allegedly raped several times since last year by her distant relative, police said. The victim on Sunday filed a complaint against her paternal uncle Sajayi V Adal (22), working in a hotel, alleging that taking advantage of her disability, the accused raped her on many occasions, Assistant Police Inspector Laxman M Sariputra said. The girl faces disability in walking properly and needs help for...
01:15 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Islamabad: Members of Pakistan's minority Hindu community staged a protest in southern Sindh province after a Hindu woman converted to Islam and married a Muslim man, according to a media report on Saturday. The protest and a "wave of anger" within the minority community led to the postponement of polls for the Hindu Panchayat in Jacobabad on Friday. Reports from Jhanjhri Street area of Jacobabad said Ganga, the daughter of...
12:47 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Seattle: Two Washington state fifth-grade boys, accused in a foiled plot to rape and kill a girl and kill or harm six other classmates, will stand trial as juveniles, a prosecutor said on Friday. Stevens County Prosecutor Tim Rasmussen said the boys, 11 and 10, pleaded not guilty during an arraignment on Friday over the alleged murder-rape plot that also targeted other children in Colville, Washington, about 215 miles (345...
09:32 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Erode: A 19-year-old polytechnic student has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl at Periya Agraharam area in the city. Police said the sixth standard girl, staying with her grandmother, had gone to her relative's house on Sunday to attend a festival. The boy, who was their neighbour, took her to an isolated spot nearby on his bike on the pretext of giving her a cold drink and biscuits...
11:30 AM, Mar 25, 2013
New Delhi: Special courts would be set up soon for Muslim youth accused of various offences, including terror-related charges, Minister for Minority Affairs K Rahman Khan said in New Delhi on Saturday. He said that his ministry had written to the home ministry in February 2013 asking "cases against Muslim youth who have been arrested should be reviewed. We had also specified that special courts should be made for them"....
03:00 AM, Mar 24, 2013
In another horrific incident of crime against women, a group of boys allegedly abducted and raped a minor girl in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. ...
02:22 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of the rape of three minor sisters, whose bodies were found in a well in their village in Bhandara district. ...
02:05 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) plans a "long march to Dhaka" on Monday to protest against reported atrocities on religious minorities in Bangladesh and express solidarity with protestors demanding death penalty for those convicted of war crimes. ...
04:30 AM, Mar 18, 2013
Four incidents of sexual assault, including that on a teenager and a minor, have been reported from Chandigarh within 24 hours, with one person getting arrested for his alleged involvement in one of the cases. In the first incident, a 25-year-old girl was allegedly abducted by some unidentified youths on Saturday, who tried to outrage her modesty in a car before abandoning her in the Sector 26 area, police said....
08:54 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Saturday said public sentiments akin to "baying for blood" of the juvenile accused in the Delhi gangrape-cum-murder case before the conclusion of trial is unfortunate. Referring to December 16 gangrape-cum-murder case as a "ghastly" incident, Justice Kabir also said the kneejerk reaction of general public against the juvenile was wrong. ...
10:04 PM, Mar 16, 2013
A two-and-half-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a wardboy of the government hospital at Kanad town, about 30 kms from Shajapur, police said. The incident took place yesterday when the girl was at the hospital with her mother, who had been admitted there for delivery, they said. ...
04:55 AM, Mar 16, 2013
