Bangalore: Indian Institute of Bangalore (IIM) Bangalore has sacked its Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) accused of sexually harassing a lady doctor. The woman had been sacked after she had filed the complaint. She, employed to cater to the IIM-Bangalore students and faculty, later turned Citizen Journalist on CNN-IBN to highlight the case after the institute failed to take strict action against officer. In an email to all his staff, IIM-B...
04:30 PM, May 29, 2013
Mumbai: After the crackdown by the Maharashtra government on the doctors allegedly indulging in aborting female fetus in the state, the racket has now shifted to the neighbouring states. The racket of aborting female fetus is now operating in the states bordering Maharashtra as the doctors have set up their shops there. An NGO has exposed the alleged racket in a sting operations. The doctors take a huge fee and...
11:04 AM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: A 16-year-old girl who was brought to the national capital on the pretext of getting her a job was gangraped repeatedly by her cousin and his friends, police said Tuesday. The girl was brought from Gumla in Jharkhand by her cousin and his friend. According to police, the girl was found unconscious near a temple near Kashmiri Gate metro station in north Delhi. Her cousin had got her...
11:40 PM, May 28, 2013
Ghaziabad: In what started out as a heated argument over a parking space, ended in a tragedy a Imother and her son were shot dead by three men in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad. The three men fired at the woman identified as Rajbala and her son Ajay in Masuri locality of Ghaziabad on Monday. The mother-son duo was taken to a hospital where Ajay died during treatment on Tuesday morning and...
05:06 PM, May 28, 2013
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police said on Monday that a special investigating team (SIT) has been constituted to probe the alleged sexual exploitation of four minor girls by a fake "soul healer" in central Kashmir's Badgam district. A police officer told IANS that the SIT would probe the sexual exploitation of the minor girls by Gulzar Ahmed Bhat, who headed an institute where the girls studied. Meanwhile, a court extended...
05:45 AM, May 28, 2013
Krishnagar: A man was arrested on Monday for allegedly raping his deaf and mute daughter-in-law in Nadia district, police said. The 26-year-old woman, a deaf and dumb inmate of Welfare Home in Hooghly district was married to Bhola Moira (35) the deaf and mute son of Mahabir Moira of Kalyani in July 9, 2012. After her marriage to Bhola, the survivor alleged that she was repeatedly raped by her father-in-law...
09:18 PM, May 27, 2013
Mumbai: The girl who was a victim of an acid attack at Mumbai's Bandra station early this month is now said to be in a critical condition. Her lungs have collapsed due to the holes that formed post the attack. Doctors have shifted her onto life support. The victim had also lost an eye after acid was thrown on her when she got down from the train with her relatives....
08:49 PM, May 27, 2013
Kolkata: After struggling for more than a year to get a job, the Park Street rape survivor has stood up against her circumstances and is now empowering survivors like her through a helpline. "I have this mission of empowering rape victims like me. With this job, I embark on a new journey," she said, adding that the work is also helping her heal the past wounds. Besides handling the pain...
01:39 PM, May 27, 2013
Thane: A police officer and two of his relatives were arrested for allegedly murdering a 50-year-old man from Dombivili township in Thane, police said on Monday. On Sunday night, sub-inspector Amit Uttekar(30), posted at the Vanrai police station in Mumbai, had gone to a street side food joint in Dombivili along with his two relatives for dinner. At around 8.30 pm, the trio had an altercation with Fakruddin Mohammad Shaikh...
12:35 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: A teenage girl was raped allegedly by her neighbour in a car in northwest part of the national capital. The incident was reported from Kanjhawala on Saturday night and the accused, Anish (21), a barber, was arrested after the girl's family filed a complaint. According to the complaint, the girl went out with Anish, who raped her in a car. The incident came to light when Anish and...
12:16 AM, May 27, 2013
Jaipur: A Kerala police team handed over former Odisha police chief's son Bitti Mohanty, who jumped parole in 2006 while serving a sentence in Jaipur for raping a German tourist, to local jail authorities. Mohanty, the son of former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty, was brought to Jaipur yesterday on production warrant and taken to the Central Jail, Rajasthan police said. Jaipur Police will take Mohanty in custody for jumping parole...
05:59 PM, May 26, 2013
Nadia: A 19-year-old pregnant woman was allegedly killed by her husband and his parents after she tried to intervene in a quarrel between them in Nadia district. Angry that his wife Bandana Saha intervened to stop quarrel between him and his father, Gopal Saha and his sister beat her up severely, the police said. Gopal's parents also joined in the beating of the girl, who was later allegedly strangled with...
05:47 PM, May 26, 2013
New Delhi: Penal provisions on rape have been misused by some women who develop consensual physical relationship with their lovers and after the breakup file false rape cases to force them to marry them, the Delhi High Court has said. Justice Kailash Gambhir said rape law was often misused by women as weapon for "vengeance and vendetta" to harass and blackmail their male friends by filing false cases to extort...
10:22 PM, May 25, 2013
Jaipur: A Kerala Police team on Saturday arrived in Rajasthan's capital Jaipur with former Odisha police chief's son Bitti Mohanty, who jumped parole in 2006 while serving a sentence in a jail here for raping a German tourist. Mohanty, son of former Indian Police Service officer BB Mohanty, was brought to Jaipur in the morning and taken to the Central Jail, a Rajasthan Police officer said. "He will be presented...
09:14 PM, May 25, 2013
Patna: Thirty-five people, including 20 women, were arrested from a Bihar village on Saturday on charges of burning the husband of a village head over a land dispute, police said. Jainandan Mandal, husband of Kishanpur Baluwa village head Chimo Devi, was first beaten up and then thrown into his brick kiln in Kurkron village in Purnia district, about 350 km from Patna, on Friday. "Police have arrested 35 people in...
02:01 PM, May 25, 2013
Patna: A friend of a woman who was gangraped by three men in Bihar has married the survivor, police said on Saturday. Four days after the 22-year-old woman was gangraped and her friend beaten up by three men in the state's Banka district, the survivor's friend married her at a temple late on Friday. "The wedding was solemnised in a simple way at the temple in the presence of dozens...
01:13 PM, May 25, 2013
Muzaffarnagar: A man and his daughter were arrested for allegedly sacrificing a four-year-old boy at Naheri village in Muzaffarnagar, police said on Saturday. The body of Vishal with nail-marks and other injuries was found last evening, they said. Locals have alleged that the duo performed some exorcism ritual as they wanted to improve their economic condition through the exercise, police said. A case of murder has been registered against the...
12:22 PM, May 25, 2013
Lucknow: A mother and her three-year-old daughter were killed in Uttar Pradesh late on Friday after they jumped off a speeding truck while resisting a sexual assault by the driver, police said Saturday. The incident took place near the Chitaura toll plaza in Fatehpur, 120 km from Lucknow, after Raj Kumari, 30, along with son Deepak, daughter Meena and husband Rakesh hitched a ride in a truck. After travelling for...
11:28 AM, May 25, 2013
Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Saturday arrested bookie Vinod Mulchandani from the Satellite Area of the Gujarat city. Rs 1.28 crore in cash, laptops and mobile phones were seized from his possession. Some gold biscuits have too been seized from him. Mulchandani was working with a Mumbai based bookie identified as "LC". Mulchandani was involved in betting on IPL matches, and as of now, there is no connection of him...
10:32 AM, May 25, 2013
Annapolis: President Barack Obama urged the future leaders of the US military on Friday to stamp out sexual assault from their ranks, warning that a few individuals could undermine the strongest military in the world. Addressing the graduating class of the US Naval Academy, Obama used his commencement speech to take on a problem that has dogged the Pentagon and the White House in recent weeks. "We must acknowledge that...
06:25 AM, May 25, 2013
