A rickshaw puller was arrested in New Delhi for sexually assaulting a two-year-old girl, police said on Friday. "Suresh Kumar, a rickshaw puller, was arrested on Thursday night for sexually assaulting the girl at Najafgarh area in south Delhi. The accused resides in the neighbourhood of the victim," police said. ...
03:20 AM, Mar 16, 2013
In a fast-track trial, a person was on Thursday sentenced to death by a local court for raping and killing an eight-year-old girl in February near state's Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta's residence in Bhopal. The sentence was awarded by District and Session Judge Sushma Khosla in just nine working days to Nandkumar Tamoli for raping and killing the minor girl on February 2. ...
09:47 PM, Mar 14, 2013
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to take steps to arrest "at the earliest" an accused, who is on bail and absconding, charged with raping a minor girl eight months back. "You must arrest him, he must be in custody at the earliest. Instruct the jurisdiction police. We want a report on this. If required, we will order investigation by special branch like CID", a division...
01:58 AM, Mar 13, 2013
A minor boy died after a teenager administered a drug overdose to him in Delhi, police said on Sunday. The accused has been taken into custody. "Saurabh, a class 5 student was playing outside his house in Karawal Nagar in east Delhi, on Saturday afternoon, when he was allegedly taken by a 17-year-old neighbour to an isolated place and injected with a drug overdose," said a police officer. ...
05:47 AM, Mar 11, 2013
A 22-year-old hotel management student was held in New Delhi for raping five-year-old girl living in his neighbourhood, police said on Sunday. "Lalit was arrested for raping a minor girl on Saturday evening in Kapashera area in west Delhi," said a senior police officer. ...
05:33 AM, Mar 11, 2013
A five-year-old girl succumbed to her internal injuries on Thursday after she was raped allegedly by her neighbour, police said. ...
03:59 AM, Mar 08, 2013
While the laws on crimes against women still need strengthening, activists say no attention is paid to how the upholders of the law, the police, even at senior levels, do their job on the ground. In a Haryana city, just a 100 kms from Delhi, a DSP displayed complete callousness in dealing with a gangrape case where the survivor is a mentally challenged and visually impaired minor girl. ...
09:31 PM, Mar 07, 2013
In a horrific incident, a three-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by some unidentified persons and later abandoned near a building in Tirur, police said on Wednesday. ...
03:07 AM, Mar 07, 2013
A minor girl was allegedly abducted and raped by her 25-year-old neighbour in New Delhi, police said on Monday. ...
01:07 AM, Mar 05, 2013
Enraged over her husband's beating, a 35-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by setting herself ablaze along with her minor daughter. The incident occurred Sunday night in Indira Colony. ...
06:41 PM, Mar 04, 2013
A month after quitting the Rajya Sabha seat as well as the JD(U)'s primary membership, senior leader Upendra Kushwaha on Sunday launched political party Rashtriya Lok Samata Party with a pledge to oust the NDA government in Bihar. ...
07:50 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Police have arrested three people in the abduction-cum-murder of two minor siblings, whose bodies were found near a railway track in Pragati Maidan in central Delhi on Saturday. Those arrested include a distant relative of the victims, and he is also the main accused in the case. ...
01:30 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Three days after the rape of a minor in a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) school in Delhi's Mangolpuri, the police have prepared a sketch of the accused with the help of the rape survivor. The 7-year-old also told the police that she did not see the accused at school regularly. ...
10:25 AM, Mar 03, 2013
A 12-year-old girl on Friday allegedly hanged herself at her residence in suburban Mumbai. ...
02:05 AM, Mar 03, 2013
A 7-year-old girl was raped in an MCD school on Thursday at Mangolpuri, leading to violent protests. "We are examining all those people who are connected with the school, either teachers or support staff. All those people are under the scanner," DCP (outer) BS Jaiswal said on Saturday. ...
03:37 PM, Mar 02, 2013
A 7-year-old girl was allegedly raped inside an MCD school in Mangolpuri on Thursday leading to violent protests in Delhi. "I have given instructions to the police. I said in Parliament yesterday in relation to the Bhandara case in Maharashtra that such cases need to be treated seriously. The government is currently prosecuting a case strongly, and has introduced an ordinance calling for the death penalty for heinous crimes in ...
01:45 PM, Mar 02, 2013
A man has been arrested for allegedly raping his two minor daughters in the city, police said on Friday. The 40-year-old man, a history-sheeter from Madhya Pradesh who had settled in a north-west city locality sometime back, raped his 16-year-old daughter in July, 2012 and later sexually assaulted the other 14-year-old girl, police said. ...
05:53 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Gangrape and murder charges were on Thursday ordered to be framed by a juvenile justice board against the minor accused of brutally raping along with five adults a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in Delhi on December 16. The girl, who was initially treated at Safdarjung Hospital, was later shifted to a Singapore hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries on December 29, 2012. ...
04:24 PM, Feb 28, 2013
A 15-year-old boy died on Wednesday after being set ablaze by three friends in a remote area at Dhekiajuli in Assam's Sonitpur district, police said. ...
01:54 AM, Feb 21, 2013
In yet another brutal incident, a six-year-old girl from Gurgaon was kidnapped, raped and dumped on the roadside in a south Delhi locality and is now recuperating at a city hospital. ...
08:40 PM, Feb 15, 2013
