Madurai: In a rare instance, a woman who killed her husband after he attacked her in an inebriated state and also attempted to rape their daughter, has been set free by police on grounds of private defence. "Investigations proved that it was an act of private self-defence and to safeguard her daughter's modesty. So police released Usha Rani charged of murdering her husband," Superintendent of Police Asra Garg said. She...
03:11 PM, Feb 12, 2012
New Delhi: A 13-year-old student kidnapped and raped by a 30-year-old after she snubbed his friendship request; a teenaged girl gang-raped by two men in a car and another yet to be traced after being forced into a car by two young men. It was a night of shame for Delhi on Thursday as the three incidents were reported from the city within hours. In one of the incidents, one...
05:21 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Cuttack: The crime branch of Odisha Police probing the sensational Pipili Dalit rape case on Friday submitted a medical examination report prepared by experts from AIIMS to the Orissa High Court. Submitting the report in a sealed cover, the government advocate prayed that since the case is under investigation, the contents of the AIIMS report may not be made public now lest it hamper further probe. The police also submitted...
11:42 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: A 13-year-old student kidnapped and raped by a 30-year-old after she snubbed his friendship request, a teenaged girl gang raped by two men in a car and another yet to be traced after being forced into a car by two youths. It was a night of shame for Delhi on Thursday as the three incidents were reported from the city within hours. In one of the incidents, one...
09:46 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Intensifying its agitation demanding removal of Jyoti Panigrahi as chairperson of State Commission for Women (SCW) over the alleged Pipili rape case, Congress activists on Tuesday 'gheraoed' the SCW office and got the support of five Opposition parties on the issue. Activists led by State Mahila Congress president Bijaylaxmi Sahoo staged a demonstration and demanded removal and arrest of Panigrahi who in her report to the state government mentioned...
03:19 AM, Feb 08, 2012
Thane: A 47-year-old man was held on Monday along with his wife for raping his daughter-in-law in Kalyan town of Thane district, in Maharashtra, police said. Arun Jadhav sexually assaulted the 21-year-old victim at their residence on two occasions on August 15 and September 24 last when her husband was away, while his wife Kusum Jadhav (45) abetted the crime, police sub-inspector Rajesh Waghmare said. The accused duo was held...
11:59 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Raipur: Police in Chhattisgarh's Korba district launched a search on Monday for a man who threw out a minor girl from a running train after a failed rape attempt. "The accused has been identified as Ramdayal Kevat, aged 35 years. He knew the 13-year-old girl's family. Late Sunday, he took her to a train and tried to rape her. He pushed her out when he failed," officials at the police...
06:59 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Mumbai: A Sewri fast track court has acquitted two senior citizens accused of repeatedly gang-raping a 28-year-old aspiring actress, who had presented as evidence a CD of one of the men in a compromising position with her. The judgment, delivered on January 20 and made available on Friday, reveals that the woman "probably made the CD to blackmail" the accused. The woman, Shalini Gupta, had accused businessmen Umesh Reshamwala (60)...
08:37 AM, Feb 04, 2012
London: Britain's Supreme Court risks jeopardising extraditions to many neighbouring countries if it stops WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being sent to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes, a lawyer for Swedish prosecutors argued on Thursday. On the final day of hearings to determine whether the Australian is freed from house arrest in Britain or flown out to face Swedish investigators, Clare Montgomery told the justices they could set a legal...
12:14 AM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday wanted the legislature to redefine the offence of rape while sentencing a youngster to 10 years in jail for assaulting an 80-year-old woman in 2011. "This case sounds a wake-up call for Indian legislators to step in and think about having a re-look at the definition of rape so as to specifically include the instances of digital rape/male rape and make the offence...
10:20 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Bahraich: Criticising Mulayam Singh Yadav for his reported statement promising government jobs to rape victims, BJP leader Uma Bharti on Monday said the Samajwadi Party president lacked understanding of social concerns. Talking to reporters, the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister favoured capital punishment for rape convicts. "If the BJP is voted to power, it will make provision of capital punishment for rapists to prevent recurrence of such incidents," she said....
01:38 AM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: As political parties try to outdo one another in offering sops in Uttar Pradesh elections, Mulayam Singh Yadav first promised free laptops and tablets to students if Samajwadi Party comes to power in UP. Going a step further, he has announced free saris and blankets for the needy, and if that was not enough, the Samajwadi Party supremo has also said his government will give jobs to rape...
07:52 AM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has raked up another controversy, this time over his alleged comment that his party will offer jobs to rape victims if elected to power. Yadav was addressing a rally at Siddharth Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. Addressing the crowd, Yadav said, "Investigations will be ordered against the murderers and rapists and they will be sent to jail. We will help the rape victims...
06:50 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Cuttack: Even as the state government on Friday indicated that there is no scope to review the decision of dismissing former Pipili police inspector, the Odisha Police Association (OPA) has threatened to step up its protest for revocation of the dismissal order. DGP Manmohan Praharaj had dismissed former inspector-in-charge of Pipili police station, Amulya Kumar Champattiray, for 'dereliction of duty' under Article 311 (2) of the Constitution on January 24....
11:24 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New York: The son of New York Police Commissioner has been accused by a woman of raping her, a charge that he has denied. Greg Kelly, who is anchor at a local television show, is the son of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. The case is being handled by office of the Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance and not by the Police Department to avoid conflict arising from investigating a case...
11:36 AM, Jan 27, 2012
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