Lahore: A man allegedly raped his daughter and later poisoned her to death in Pakistan's Punjab province, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred a few days ago in Nawan Kot village of Gujrat district, 125 km from the provincial capital of Lahore. The girl's family did not report the incident to police and secretly buried her in a local graveyard. The matter came to light when Sobia Amaan, a...
11:16 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A taxi driver was arrested in Puri on Saturday for allegedly raping and murdering a visually impaired minor girl, police said. Banamali Barik, 35, who was arrested, is a drug edict and has a criminal record. He was a frequent visitor to the victim's house. He has confessed to the crime, District Superintendent of Police Anup Sahu told IANS. The 15-year-old victim was a student of a blind school...
04:03 AM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: Opposition BJP on Saturday attacked Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for her "magic wand" comment on power tariff reduction and said they were ready to share the reduction formula with her but wondered was her government ready to implement it. "BJP is ready to share its power tariff reduction formula with you but is your government ready to implement it? Why the CM has never called an all-party...
12:54 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Kolkata: The Left Front on Saturday criticised the West Bengal's Trinamool Congress government for the recent gangrape of a college student and attacks on two TV journalists and accused the authorities of trivialising "attacks on democracy". "The gangrape case and the attacks on the journalists are a glaring example of attacks on democracy under this government," Left Front chairman Biman Bose told mediapersons here. Referring to custodial death of student...
11:55 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Kolkata: A college student was allegedly gangraped by four men in Barasat on the outskirts of Kolkata on Friday. The incident took place when the girl was returning home after taking an examination. The girl was reportedly dragged and raped in an under-construction building. Her body was found with injury marks near a neighbourhood canal. Police have now arrested three suspects and are looking for the fourth man. Meanwhile, locals...
03:26 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Faridabad: A man accused of rape and murder of a 10-year-old was sentenced to death on Friday. In 2012, Inder Soni had raped the daughter of his tenant and stabbed her to death in Faridabad. The victim's family belonged to Munger in Bihar. The accused had raped and murdered the girl when she went to his room to give him food. After the girl did not return, her father searched...
08:36 AM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: All of 19, a teenaged girl was abandoned by her family after being raped by a neighbour last year. Weak and helpless in the ninth month of her pregnancy, she wants the state to take care of her child. "I've no money or means to support the child. My family has left me. The state should provide for this child," says the rape survivor. After a lower court...
07:29 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Columbus: A man accused of holding three women captive in his run-down home in Cleveland for a decade and fathering a child with one of them has been indicted on 329 charges including murder, kidnapping and rape, prosecutors said. A Cuyahoga County grand jury returned the indictment on Friday against Ariel Castro, a former school bus driver fired last fall. Castro, 52, is accused of kidnapping Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus...
07:02 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Thane: In a speedy trial, a 53-year-old man was on Friday sentenced to death by a court here for raping and murdering a five-year-old girl in January 2013. Thane Additional Sessions Judge PH Mali while pronouncing the verdict observed that the case fell under the "rarest of rare" category as the girl had been done to death in the most cruel manner and a young life was snuffed out. Prosecutor...
05:36 PM, Jun 07, 2013
New Delhi: A 15-year-old girl from Delhi was allegedly gangraped and filmed by two men in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad town, police said on Thursday. The girl, a resident of the capital's Pandav Nagar area, was on May 31 offered a joy ride on a bike by her neighbour Fakira, who took her to a house in Ghaziabad where his nephew Pradeep was already present. The victim in her complaint filed...
01:26 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Manali (HP): Three Nepalese men working as truck drivers were on Thursday arrested for allegedly gangraping a 30-year-old US national in Manali on Monday. The accused were arrested in the wee hours and the tipper used by them for perpetrating the crime has been seized, police said. The arrested persons identified as Arjun (22), Lakki (24) and Som Bahadur (24) are from Nepal, Superintendent of Police, Kullu, Vinod Dhawan said....
01:50 PM, Jun 06, 2013
Manali: Three people have been reportedly arrested in connection with the rape of a 31-year-old American tourist in Manali. The police said that the survivor was hitch-hiking back to her guest house when she was picked up by three men in a truck and then was gangraped. In her complaint, she alleged that she was raped and the accused also took away her iPhone and some currency. The police have...
11:55 AM, Jun 06, 2013
Jerusalem: A Tel Aviv District Court judge has resigned following public furore over comments he made in court that some girls "enjoy being raped". Nissim Yeshaya was presiding over a hearing on the rape of a 13-year-old Israeli girl by four Palestinian youths when he made the comment. He apologised and said the remark was taken out of context. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was among officials who harshly criticised the...
11:38 PM, Jun 05, 2013
Manali: The vehicle in which a US national was allegedly gangraped in Manali has been traced, the police said on Wednesday. "The tipper has been traced... the identity of the accused would be established soon," a police official said. The victim was allegedly raped Monday night by the occupants of the tipper who offered her a lift back to Manali from Vashisth where she had gone to visit some friends....
11:34 PM, Jun 05, 2013
Washington: A Republican US senator was under fire on Tuesday after blaming youthful hormones, at least in part, for sexual assaults in the military. Senator Saxby Chambliss, a Republican from Georgia, made the comments at a hearing attended by the top uniformed officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was also present. "The young folks that are coming...
07:09 AM, Jun 05, 2013
Shillong: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Tuesday instructed Meghalaya Police to undergo training on laws relating to women and child rights. The instruction came a day after the child rights panel reprimanded police in connection with the alleged rape of two minors in South West Garo Hills district by a police officer. "We were surprised to find that Meghalaya Police are unaware of the Protection...
05:32 AM, Jun 05, 2013
Washington: US military leaders said on Tuesday that sexual assault in the ranks is "like a cancer" that could destroy the force, but they rejected far-reaching congressional efforts to strip commanders of some authority in meting out justice. Seated side-by-side at a long witness table, Army Gen Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the head of each branch of the military testified on what is widely...
02:17 AM, Jun 05, 2013
Manali: A 31-year-old American tourist was allegedly gangraped by three truckers in Manali late on Monday night. The medical examination of the survivor has been done and the report is awaited. The survivor, who reached Manali on Monday, had gone to old Vashisth area to meet some friends. She was allegedly raped by the persons who had given her lift in a tipper on her way back to Manali, the...
03:09 PM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: Insensitivity in the capital towards women continues as a Gurgaon hospital turned away a 13-year old rape victim. The teenager was also refused treatment at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital due to bureaucratic hurdles. Her family clams that she was finally admitted to Safdarjung Hospital after much persuasion and harassment. Doctors claim that the girl is 16-weeks pregnant and is now stable. A case has already been registered at the...
09:28 AM, Jun 04, 2013
Kolkata: The West Bengal Human Rights Commission on Monday directed the city police to conduct a probe into the alleged rape of an Irish woman in Kolkata and submit a report within three weeks. "Taking cognizance of media reports, the commission Monday directed the police commissioner to conduct a thorough probe in the matter and submit a report within three weeks," said commission Joint Secretary Sujay Kumar Haldar. The 21-year-old...
05:43 AM, Jun 04, 2013
