London: British media say that a senior Conservative Party politician has been arrested for questioning on suspicion of rape and sexual assault. The reports identify the politician as Deputy House of Commons Speaker Nigel Evans, a 55-year-old from Lancashire, northwest England, who has served in Parliament for two decades. British police do not identify people arrested for questioning who have not been charged. Asked about the arrest of Evans, Lancashire...
03:00 AM, May 05, 2013
Jaipur: A 30-year old married woman was burnt alive for resisting rape in Rajasthan's Hanumgarh district on Saturday, police said. According to police, the incident took place on early Saturday at the district's Nohar area, some 500 km from Jaipur. Circle Officer Kishori Lal said that the woman was sleeping along with her four-year daughter, while her husband was working in the farm when the accused, identified as Jitendra Kumar...
08:30 PM, May 04, 2013
Nagpur: A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth at a wedding hall in Kanhan near in Nagpur, where she had come with her parents to attend a marriage celebration, police said on Saturday. Rakesh alias Chakradhar Jagoji Bele (27), working in an office on the top floor of the wedding hall complex, lured the girl on Friday on the pretext of giving her an ice-cream and raped her...
12:47 PM, May 04, 2013
San Jose: President Barack Obama came to Latin America eager to move the region's relationship with the US beyond fighting drugs and organized crime, yet the pervasive problems still trailed him throughout his three-day trip to Mexico and Costa Rica. In the Costa Rican capital on Friday, Obama defended his administration's efforts to stem US demand for drugs that many regional leaders see as a driving factor in their security...
07:30 AM, May 04, 2013
Hamirpur: A local court on Friday sentenced a school teacher to eight years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 in a rape case committed in March 2012. A class VIII student of the Government School, Kiyarabagh in Hamirpur district had lodged a complaint in Badsar police on June 2, 2012, that a teacher had raped her on March 24 and was repeatedly harassing her. The victim had stopped...
03:57 AM, May 04, 2013
Balasore: The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Friday broke open the office of the Saradha Group in Balasore and seized certain documents relating to alleged duping of gullible investors in the district. The officials of the EOW with the help of the local police and in presence of a magistrate broke open the doors of Saradha Group's main office at Fakir Mohan Gole, the...
03:02 AM, May 04, 2013
Nagpur/Shahdol: A nine-year-old girl from Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh, who was allegedly gangraped by two persons last week, has been brought to Nagpur and admitted to a private hospital here after her condition deteriorated. The victim is being attended to by a team of doctors, after she was shifted to Nagpur on Thursday from Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Government Medical College in Jabalpur (MP), hospital sources said on Friday....
06:01 PM, May 03, 2013
Thane: A doctor allegedly raped a young woman while she was undergoing treatment at his hospital in Thane, police said on Friday. Dr William Jacob admitted the 24-year-old woman at his private hospital in Diva township of Thane district in March following an illness, Mumbra police station sub-inspector Laxman B Rathod said. According to the complaint lodged by the woman on April 24 while she was in the hospital, the...
03:42 PM, May 03, 2013
Mumbai: Two passengers, a girl and her relative had acid flung on to their faces by a man who had covered his face on Thursday on board a train between Delhi and Mumbai. The girl lost vision in her right eye and her face was disfigured. They were admitted to a hospital in Byculla in Mumbai. Two others were hurt in the process too. The accused is absconding and has...
10:34 AM, May 03, 2013
Hyderabad: A three-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her father on Thursday, after he "suspected" his wife's 'fidelity' in the Mancherial town of Adilabad district, the police said. After allegedly throwing the baby girl Harini, into a water tank on Ashok Road in Mancherial, her father C Krishna, a painter, initially claimed that she had been "abducted". "After the incident he reported the matter to his relatives and police. However,...
02:11 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: A youth, who had murdered a man for failing to give him a cigarette, has been sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment by a Delhi court which said he has no value of a human being. Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau awarded the jail term to 25-year-old Rakesh for stabbing victim Suraj with a knife leading to his death, saying he did not hesitate to take law in his...
02:23 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: A 22-year-old woman accused five people, including two of her brothers-in-laws, of raping her in south Delhi, police said on Wednesday. In her complaint to police, the young woman alleged that she was gangraped by the five men late Tuesday night. The three others involved in the crime were friends of her brothers-in-laws, police said. The accused have all been arrested. According to the woman, a resident of...
09:13 AM, May 02, 2013
Chicago: In a shocking incident, a 5-year-old toddler in the US accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old sister with a rifle that was given to him as a gift. The shooting happened on Tuesday afternoon inside a home on Lawson's Bottom Road, near Burkesville, Kentucky. The State Medical Examiner's Office in Louisville is expected to perform an autopsy on the two-year-old girl. Police say the toddler was shot by her...
04:49 AM, May 02, 2013
Karimnagar/Hyderabad: Four rape incidents, including that of a minor girl and a "mentally challenged" girl, were reported in past five days in Andhra Pradesh, the police said on Wednesday. Three rape incidents were reported in different parts of the state capital since Friday, while another incident occurred in Karimnagar district, the police said. An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her step father on Friday night at her home in...
02:06 AM, May 02, 2013
Hyderabad: An accused in a case of gangrape dating back to 1990 has been arrested by Andhra Pradesh CID after 14 years. Mohd Waheed and five others were accused of abducting a woman in May, 1990. She was confined to a room on the outskirts of Miryalguda in Nalgonda district and raped repeatedly. She succeeded in escaping and lodged a complaint. CID probed the case. During the trial, Waheed jumped...
11:40 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: A 22-year-old woman accused five people, including two of her brothers-in-law, of raping her in south Delhi, police said Wednesday. In her complaint to police, the young woman alleged that she was gangraped by the five men near gate No 4 of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences late Tuesday night. The three others involved in the crime were friends of her brothers-in-law, police said. The accused...
11:38 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: The United Nations Wednesday expressed regret that the anti-rape law passed by the government after the December 16 gang-rape incident did not fully reflect the recommendations of the Justice JS Verma Committee. "Recommendations on marital rape, lesbians and age of consent (for sex) were not adopted in the legislation," UN special rapporteur on violence against women Rashida Manjoo told reporters here. She said: "I welcome the government of...
09:59 PM, May 01, 2013
Allahabad: A college girl was abducted and allegedly gangraped in a moving car by four men in Colonelganj area of the city. The girl, who was gangraped on April 27, also alleged that she was threatened and slapped during her medical examination by a woman doctor, who asked her to withdraw her complaint. Two of the accused have been arrested, police said, adding the girl has identified one of them....
08:40 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: The main accused in the gangrape of a five-year-old girl in east Delhi, Manoj Sah, has been sent to judicial custody till May 9 by a city court after being grilled by the police for five days. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjay Garg remanded Manoj, 22, in judicial custody after the Delhi Police said he was not required for further interrogation. Co-accused Pradeep, 19, is also in judicial custody...
05:34 PM, May 01, 2013
Purulia: Every second girl in India is married underage, according to UNFPA data. The UNFPA also says that India has the highest number of child brides. Nearly 47 per cent of girls are married under the legal age of 18. The agency adds that nearly 140 million child marriages may take place between 2011 and 2020 across most developing nations. This means that on an average, 39,000 child marriages will...
04:54 PM, May 01, 2013
