Berhampore: A man and his aide were arrested on Sunday for allegedly killing his 10-year-old daughter when she protested his attempts to sell her at Jalangi in Murshidabad district. "Bablu Ghosh and his aide were arrested for strangulating his daughter Rinki Ghosh. Rinki was a student of class-III. Local villagers informed the police on Sunday morning after finding the body on the side of a pond at Chak Chaitanghoshpara village,"...
06:10 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: Rape cases will come down if people shun non-vegetarian food and alcohol, activist Swami Agnivesh said on Sunday. "We cannot stop a crime like rape by policing only.... I think rapes will come down significantly if people stop eating non-vegetarian. There has been lot of research on this.... Rapes will come down significantly if alcohol consumption is not there," he told reporters in New Delhi. He said a...
05:01 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: India's attractiveness among the expat professionals as a potential workplace has taken a major hit in the wake of recent cases of rape incidents and attacks on foreigners, a survey says. The survey, conducted among 2,200 expat professionals, found that 72 per cent of the respondents who were keen to work in India in the first half of 2012 are now shifting their attention to countries like Philippines,...
04:30 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Belgaum: Mutilated body of a 20-year-old college student was found in Belgaum district of Karnataka on Sunday. The woman was allegedly gangraped and murdered. Her body was found on a road in Belgaum district on Saturday. The woman's bag, footwear and college identity card were also recovered from the spot. The unidentified assailants allegedly inflicted injuries on her face with sharp objects. The woman's caste name was also etched on...
03:39 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Cuttack: The Odisha government is mulling to move the High Court challenging the January 23 decision of the State Administrative Tribunal in which it had set aside the government's dismissal order of a disgraced police inspector. Amulya Kumar Champatiray, in his capacity as inspector in-charge of Pipili police station in November 2011, had refused to register an FIR and conduct probe into a rape and attempt to murder incident of...
02:36 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: The father of the Delhi minor rape survivor was offered a bribe of Rs 2000 by the Station House Officer (SHO) of Gandhinagar Police Station, source said on Sunday. The Joint Commissioner of Police (Vigilance) submitted report on the allegations of bribe by the police in the case. Sources added the victim's family has identified the SHO of the police station. The family had alleged they were offered...
12:31 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Jaipur: A woman was allegedly poisoned to death by her husband and in-laws in the Mahaveer Nagar area in Jaipur over demands for dowry, police said on Saturday. Sunita Ajmer died on Friday at the Sawai Man Singh hospital following which her father registered an FIR at the Bajaj Nagar police station, they said. Her father has alleged that she was given poison by her husband Rakesh, mother-in-law Lalita, father-in-law...
12:17 AM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: A 25-year-old domestic help was allegedly gangraped by three men in south-east Delhi, the police said on Saturday. The incident took place in New Friends Colony on Friday and it came to light when the victim, a mother of two, approached the police. She told police that three men raped her in her servant quarters on Friday. After a medical examination confirmed rape, the three accused - Kamal,...
11:28 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Gurgaon: Two women have alleged that three men raped them in a car after giving them a lift, police said on Saturday. The women, who are 22 and 45, said in their complaint to police that they had taken a lift from Rajiv Chowk in Gurgaon to go to Sohna. However, instead of heading towards Sohna, the three men, all in their 40s, turned towards Taudu and raped them on...
09:47 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Tripura: In yet another shocking incident of crime against children, a six-year old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Tripura, triggering violent protests by the locals. The incident happened on Thursday evening at Chelagang in Gomati district of Tripura. The accused has been arrested. The police said that the accused Sanjit Saha, confessed that he raped the girl before strangling her to death. He said he dumped the body...
07:34 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Jaipur: A 20-year-old girl was raped by a youth on the pretext of marrying her, police said in Jaipur on Saturday. The girl, hailing from Ajmer, was staying with her aunt in the city and was studying in a college. During her stay in Jaipur, she met the youth named Sanjay Moolchandani and fell in love with him. The youth, who is from her community, also promised to marry her,...
05:31 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: Another child has been allegedly sexually assaulted in a public toilet in Badarpur in Delhi. A 6-year-old girl, according to the doctors who are now treating her, has suffered injuries to her private parts, which appear to have been inflicted with a sharp object. The survivor is undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences trauma centre and is said to be stable now. A passer-by...
08:28 AM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: The doctors, who were part of the medical team attending to the Delhi braveheart, told a fast-track court in New Delhi on Friday that the girl was shifted to a Singapore hospital to provide her with best possible treatment and not because she had died as alleged by the accused. The doctors' response came on the allegation by defence counsel of two accused in the case that the...
11:31 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Mumbai: A 13-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped in a house in suburban Vakola by four youths, who were arrested on Friday, along with the survivor's female friend for her alleged role in the crime, police said. The accused Melwin D'Souza (22), Sachin Yadav (22), Bipin Singh (22), Venkatesh Naidu (20) and a 16-year-old girl, who is friend of the survivor, were booked for abduction and gangrape among other IPC sections,...
10:33 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Mumbai: Four men reportedly drugged and gangraped a 13-year-old girl in a house in suburban Vakola, Mumbai, police said on Friday. The survivor was asked by one of her female friends to accompany her, after the latter was invited by a male friend to his house in Vakola on Thursday evening, the police said. As the victim reached there, four boys were already present in the house. After the six...
05:09 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Agra: A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered when she had gone to attend an engagement ceremony at the residence of a CRPF sub-inspector in Kachaura area in the district, police said on Friday. The victim was found lying in a pool of blood with wire marks around her neck and it seemed her head had been crushed with a stone, police said. The girl had on Thursday gone...
03:18 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Nagpur: Even as a young rape survivor is battling for her life in a Nagpur hospital, another little girl's mysterious death still continues to haunt her family. Seven-year-old Yogita Thakre was found dead in former BJP president Nitin Gadkari's compound four years ago. "We haven't got justice even after so much has taken place. Whoever has committed this heinous crime should be punished," said Yogita's sister. Her family says they...
09:27 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Baripada: A 15-year-old school girl was allegedly gangraped by two youths and her picture in compromising position taken on mobile phones by the accused at a village in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, police said. The girl was allegedly gangraped while she had gone to a village pond for attending nature's call on Wednesday evening in Sanasimula village, about 55 kilometer from Baripada, police said. Police has arrested two youths - Bhabani...
04:46 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Mumbai: The sessions court in Mumbai on Thursday sentenced a 50-year-old man to ten years' rigorous imprisonment for killing his wife. According to the police, in April 2012, a neighbour found Suryakant Koli (50) and Malumma Koli (45) lying in pools of blood at their house in Govandi area. While Suryakant survived, Malumma was declared dead at hospital, with 17 wounds on her body. Police found out that Suryakant had...
02:26 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Sounsar: Expressing concern over the growing incidents of rapes in the country, BJP Vice-President Uma Bharti on Thursday said the issue should be tackled urgently by keeping aside political and regional considerations. "I am concerned with the growing incidents of rapes especially with minor girls, in the country. I am of firm opinion that the issue should be looked into by all concern by keeping aside politics and state-specific element,"...
01:27 AM, Apr 26, 2013
