New Delhi: A man allegedly raped a class 10 student living in his neighbourhood inside her home in Delhi's Vivek Vihar colony. The heinous crime took place when the girl was alone at home as here family members had gone out.
The victim has alleged that her neighbour forcefully entered her house and raped her.
According to sources, family members lodged the complaint when the girl narrated the entire incident to them after they returned.
The police have registered a case and arrested the accused. The victim's family members say the police asked them not to speak to the media....
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02:21 PM, May 24, 2013
Badaun: Son of a Samajwadi Party leader was sentenced to life imprisonment and a penalty of Rs one lakh was also imposed on him by a local court in Badaun for raping a teenaged girl. The 15-year-old victim was raped by Varun Bharadwaj alias Chinu, son of former SP block head Patanjali Bhardwaj, in Alapur area on December 27, 2010, prosecution counsel Gyan Swaroop Gupta said. After hearing both the...
12:25 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that departmental enquiry has been initiated against seven policemen in connection with the December 16 gangrape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in New Delhi. Those policemen, who were manning the PCR van in the locality through which the bus had passed, have also come under the scanner of enquiry. Appearing for Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA),...
04:06 AM, May 24, 2013
Thane: The Thane city police arrested a doctor from a hospital on Wednesday for allegedly molesting a patient, the police said on Thursday. Sub-inspector AP Daundkar of the Naupada police station told PTI on Thursday that the patient, a 45-year-old housewife, had got herself admitted to the Sahayog Hospital in the Naupada locality. Allegedly, on Tuesday when nurses had left for the day, the accused who was on the night...
01:46 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: Bollywood producer Pooja Bhatt is auctioning off a role in one of her next Hindi-language films to help raise money to reduce rising cases of violence against women in India, the charity Oxfam has said. The opportunity, organised by Oxfam's partner Scottish Circle, is available to people in Scotland, where the highest bidder will win the chance to star in a film that will be screened to millions....
07:17 PM, May 23, 2013
Nashik: Five persons were arrested for allegedly betting on the IPL matches during a raid at a bungalow in Nashik, the police said on Thursday. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided the Sai Palace bungalow in the city on Wednesday night and arrested the five bookies, Assistant Commissioner of Police Pankaj Rahane said. Ten mobile phones, a laptop and other betting related material were also seized from the place,...
02:35 PM, May 23, 2013
Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad police has arrested a man identified as Rahul, the former driver of businessman Satish Goel, for allegedly killing him and six other members his family. The seven people were killed late on Tuesday night in Ghaziabad. Sources say Rahul carried out the murders as an act of revenge because he was sacked from his job as a driver by Goel for an alleged theft in the house....
11:28 AM, May 23, 2013
Islamabad: "You're going to lose," a brave woman told one of the two machete-wielding London attackers who killed a soldier. "You're going to lose. It's only you versus many," said Ingrid Loyau-Kennett as she tried keep the attacker talking so he would not kill anyone else. Two men carrying weapons brutally assaulted and killed the soldier in Woolwich in southeast London on Wednesday afternoon. The two attackers were later shot...
11:16 AM, May 23, 2013
Imphal: It has been 55 years since the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) was first introduced. The longest demonstration against it has been on in Manipur with Irom Sharmila on a fast for over 12 years now. This April, Rashida Manjoo, the United Nations envoy on Violence Against Women listened to a group of 40 women, including the mother of Manorama Devi. In 2004, Manorama, a 32-year-old was...
08:41 AM, May 23, 2013
Hyderabad: An Indian Revenue Service officer and three others, including an inspector, were on Wednesday booked in connection with alleged manhandling of a woman here. IRS officer Veerbhadram, suspended inspector P Srinivas Reddy and two others were booked under relevant sections of the IPC on a complaint lodged by the woman, a Government employee, over the incident, whose footage was broadcast by a local TV channel, they said. Reddy, attached...
08:08 AM, May 23, 2013
Lucknow: A man killed his three children on Wednesday in Uttar Pradesh and committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a speeding bus, police said. He suspected his wife to be in an illicit relation with one of his relatives. The gory incident took place in the Robertsganj area of Sonebhadra district, over 400 km from Lucknow, when on pretext of taking them out for a treat Babulal first...
03:01 AM, May 23, 2013
Jabalpur: A software engineer from Hyderabad, who had come to Jabalpur, to attend a hearing in the family court was allegedly abducted and gangraped, police said on Wednesday. According to the woman's complaint, on Tuesday night when she was coming from Katni accompanied by a friend, who went ahead of her while talking on his mobile, two youths on motorcycle took her to a deserted place and gangraped her until...
11:56 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: There is no "straight link" between bookie Ramesh Vyas and actor Vindoo Dara Singh arrested by Mumbai Police in the IPL spot-fixing scandal unearthed by their counterparts in the capital, Delhi Police said on Wednesday. A senior official of Delhi Police's Special Cell said the case of their Mumbai counterparts have nothing to do with theirs in which 18 people, including three IPL players, were arrested. "There are...
08:26 PM, May 22, 2013
Mumbai: A local court on Wednesday remanded six bookies, associated with IPL betting syndicate, in judicial custody till June 5 after rejecting the plea of the Mumbai crime branch which sought their remand and reprimanding it for deficient probe in the case. "Despite ample opportunities provided, the investigating officer has not pointed out who has been cheated and why," Additional Metropolitan Magistrate MN Saleem observed, apparently referring to cheating and...
07:42 PM, May 22, 2013
Ghaziabad: A businessman and six members of his family, including his three grandchildren, were found killed in their house in a densely populated locality here Wednesday, police said. Satish Goel (62), his wife Manju (60), son Sachin (40), daughter-in-law Rekha (38), and grandchildren Medha (13), Honey (11) and Aman were found killed, said a police official who visited the spot in this suburb of the national capital. "The entire house...
02:46 PM, May 22, 2013
Balrampur: A seven-year-old girl was killed allegedly by her stepmother, who threw her body into a well in Haraiya area, police said on Wednesday. Shanti, a student of standard III, went missing on May 19 from Dharmpur village, they said. During police interrogation last evening, her stepmother Krishnawati allegedly confessed that she strangled the girl, sealed her body in a sack and dumped it in the well, they said. The...
11:59 AM, May 22, 2013
Bareilly: A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a farmhouse owner and his domestic help in Bhojipura area, police sources said on Wednesday. The minor was raped by Pappu and his domestic help Prem Shanker on Tuesday while she was grazing cattle along with her mother, they said. Shanker was nabbed by local residents when the girl's mother raised an alarm and was thrashed before being handed over to the...
11:25 AM, May 22, 2013
Lucknow: A 17-year-old minor girl in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit is battling for her life after three young men allegedly set her on fire for resisting an attempt to molest her on Monday evening. The girl has been admitted in the hospital in a very serious condition and is undergoing treatment. The heinous crime took place on Monday night when three youths tried to sexually harass the girl. When the girl...
11:09 AM, May 22, 2013
Washington: In the face of continued violence against Sikhs, the bipartisan American Congressional Sikh Caucus asked the Department of Justice to include an anti-Sikh hate crime category on the Hate Crime Incident Report. "American Sikhs experience bigotry at all ages, from school-yard bullying to horrific violence. Despite this, an anti-Sikh category has not been added to Form 1-699. Including an anti-Sikh category is an important step in confronting violent hate...
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Srinagar: A self-styled "religious preacher" was arrested from Jammu and Kashmir's Badgam district for repeated sexual exploitation of four minor girls at an institute he ran, police said on Tuesday. "Police in Badgam district received a joint complaint by four minor girls who were reading in an institute claiming religious preaching headed by Gulzar Ahmed Bhat, son of Ghulam Qadir Bhat, resident of Latter Chadur (Shamasabad) Khan Sahib. The minor...
05:15 AM, May 22, 2013
