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
New Delhi: A man, accused of misbehaving with an air hostess in a Delhi-bound flight of Thai Airways in 2004, has been acquitted by a court here due to lack of evidence against him. The court acquitted Arunabha Goswami, a resident of Madhya Pradesh, for the offence under section 354 (outraging woman's modesty) of IPC saying police have not given any "plausible explanation" about not recording the statement of any...
12:52 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Hyderabad: An eight-year-old girl suffered burn injuries after a man allegedly threw acid on her, while she was begging at Jagatgirigutta area of Hyderabad on Friday, police said. According to police, the accused Narasimha, was in a drunken state when the incident took place. When the minor girl, who is dumb, came to Narasimha seeking alms, he threw acid on her, they said. The girl, who sustained burn injuries on...
10:20 PM, Jun 07, 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
Washington: For the first time, the FBI will start tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arabs, meeting one of the long-pending demands of these minority communities, who have increasingly been targetted post 9/11 in the United States. After years of pressure from civil rights groups and lawmakers, the FBI Advisory Policy Board on Wednesday recommended tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arab Americans. At its meeting, the board...
12:55 PM, Jun 06, 2013
New Delhi: A man in Kanpur allegedly killed and burnt the body of her 15-year-old daughter with the help of his relatives after the girl refused to marry a man much older to her. The girl's mother had gone to her parent's home at the time of the crime. She has filed a murder complaint with the police against her husband and five other people for killing her daughter. All...
12:17 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
New Delhi: A 22-year-old boy identified as Aakash allegedly stabbed and killed his brother-in-law in Palam area of New Delhi. The deceased has been identified as Suresh. Suresh was 25-year-old and married to Aakash's sister Monika. According to the police officials, Suresh and Monika were in love and got married one and half years ago. Monika's brother Aakash was not happy with their love marriage. He had allegedly threatened several...
11:40 AM, Jun 06, 2013
Guwahati: A major in Assam Rifles has been arrested in Assam on charges of murdering his wife. Police said Major Gaurav Singh was taken into custody following the murder of Priya Singh, whose body was recovered on the evening of May 30. On May 1, Singh had told police that his wife had been missing. Police on Wednesday produced him before the chief judicial magistrate at Kamrup who remanded him...
04:06 AM, Jun 06, 2013
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a 30-year-old woman allegedly drowned her children, one in a washing machine and another in a bucket of water, in east Delhi before committing suicide on Wednesday. The incident took place in Mandawali and it came to light when woman's husband Devender Yadav reached home on Wednesday afternoon. No suicide note was found. Sarita allegedly drowned her six-year-old daughter in a washing machine. Then...
01:06 AM, Jun 06, 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
The death of 25-year-old Delhi girl Preeti Rathi in Mumbai has once again focussed the country's attention on this heinous crime. What measures are immediately necessary to put an end to this crime? Pragya Singh, campaign coordinator, Stop Acid Attacks joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the matter. Q. I just came to know that the acid these criminals use is of a different strength and variety than the...
06:58 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
Alleging that the man arrested by the railway police in connection with the Bandra acid attack case is being made a scapegoat, the victim Preeti Rathi's father said that the arrest has been made only to satisfy the public. ...
11:53 PM, Jun 04, 2013
