
New Delhi: A 17-year-old girl was kidnapped and gang-raped in Delhi by three people, including two neighbours, after giving her sedatives, police said on Monday. The incident took place May 17, 2013 in east Delhi's New Usmanpur area, police said.
"Two of the three accused are minors. The third accused has been identified as Ajay who has been arrested. Ajay's younger brother has been sent to a juvenile home while the third accused is absconding," said a police officer.
The incident came to light after the girl, who was found in an unconscious condition in a street, gained consciousness two days after the incident and narrated the chain of events to her family.
A medical test confirmed rape and a case was registered, police said....
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03:15 AM, May 21, 2013

Hyderabad: Railway Police on Tuesday rescued 19 children, including seven belonging to Jharkhand, from Secunderabad railway station and caught one person on charge of trafficking. The children were to be employed as bonded labourers at a furniture manufacturing unit at Lingampally here, SP (Secunderabad Railway Police) M Kanta Rao told PTI. "During a survey on the Secunderabad railway platform, 19 children (all below the age of 14) were found abandoned...

03:05 AM, May 15, 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

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

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

Less than three weeks after a paedophile lured a seven-year-old girl to a Goa school toilet and raped her, another paedophile has been arrested for molesting four minor girls from Margao for the period of several months , police said Sunday. ...

04:00 PM, Feb 03, 2013

As the government deliberates the issue of safety of women and the 23-year-old gangrape survivor battles for life, there are more reports of sex crimes against women from across the country. In Rajasthan's Barmer district, a 16-year-old girl was reportedly abducted and gangraped by three men inside a moving car on Thursday night. ...

07:32 PM, Dec 28, 2012

The Shiv Sena has asked district authorities in Pune to ensure that minor girls and boys are not allowed to participate in the New Year parties held at hotels and pubs in and around the city. ...

04:08 PM, Dec 27, 2012

Rameswaram: Six members of a family, including four minor children, were charred to death in a fire that engulfed their house at Thoppuvalasai early on Monday morning. The deceased included a man, whose wife is working abroad, his four minor children aged between one and 13 and his father, police said. All the family members were asleep when the fire broke out, police said, adding that the cause of the...

12:29 PM, Oct 01, 2012

New Delhi: There is a reason why the national capital is called the crime capital of the country. In less than 24 hours, two cases of sexual abuse have come to light, both involving school bus drivers and minors were the targets in both the cases. In the first incident, a three-year-old boy was allegedly sodomised by his school bus driver and cleaner. The incident happened in south Delhi. The...

09:26 AM, Sep 08, 2012

Madurai: Officials of the District Social Welfare Department stopped three minor marriages on Tuesday. Ironically, in two of the marriages, senior politicians holding ministerial positions agreed to preside over the function without knowing that the bride had not attained the legal age for marriage. However, when they learnt that the brides were minors, the politicians immediately asked the family members of the both the bride and the groom to cooperate...

12:55 PM, Aug 30, 2012

Mumbai: The Pune hotel raided by the police two days ago exposing a liquor party for over 600 minors is found to be owned by Jayant Pawar, cousin of Deputy Chief Minister and senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar. The Pune city police had raided the Riverview Hotel on Saturday accompanied by parents to find over 800 school and college students dancing in pool -- majority of them in an inebriated...

04:51 PM, Aug 29, 2012

Jammu and Kashmir police on Sunday released shocking CCTV footage which suggested militants used teenaged boys to lob grenades at security forces in public places. ...

10:32 AM, Aug 06, 2012

Hyderabad: When 10-year-old Mohd. Umar first inhaled a whitener fluid off a piece of paper in the company of his friends, little did he know what he was getting into. Same is the case with nine-year-old Sadiq and 20-year-old Syed Fasi. The trio are among hundreds of such boys addicted to whiteners in the Old City. Whitener is a white fluid containing organic solvents, used to erase errors in handwritten...

01:27 PM, Jul 25, 2012

New Delhi: In a shocker from Gurgaon, the caretaker of an NGO-run shelter has been arrested for allegedly raping, filming and threatening the minor girls who stayed there. This after the victims' teacher alerted the authorities. A team from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) conducted a raid on Saturday. This is the second such case to come to light in Gurgaon in the last three months...

12:57 PM, May 06, 2012

Rourkela: A 17-year-old school girl was raped at Udusu village in Sundargarh district, about 30 km from Rourkela, triggering an outcry followed by the arrest of nine minor boys, police said on Saturday. The 10th standard girl, along with one of her friends, was on way to her brother-in-law's house at nearby Changjharana village on Thursday evening. On the way, two minor boys joined them on pretext of escorting them....

03:39 PM, Apr 14, 2012

New Delhi: A cloud of shock and outrage engulfed Delhi after a private school van driver was arrested for repeatedly raping a 12-year-old girl in his charge. Angry crowd beat up the accused. The police is now looking for the four minor boys who were his partners in crime. Anger, outrage and then the feeling of helplessness. It was a mix of mob justice and a mother's anguished appeal for...

12:26 AM, Sep 19, 2010

is it just pressure killing these children? ...

11:45 PM, Jan 04, 2010

UK prime minister Gordon Brown has called the incident very shocking. ...

05:26 PM, Apr 08, 2009

Mumbai: The Indian squad, barring Harbhajan Singh, on Friday had its first day's training session at the Cricket Club of India here ahead of the Test series against England starting November 15. The squad had a two-hour training, overseen by chief coach Duncan Fletcher, bowling coach Joe Dawes and fielding coach Evan Speechly, at the Brabourne Stadium. The light training session started with a stint of football, as has been...

01:19 PM, Jul 17, 2008