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
Ballia: A 12-year-old child bride was allegedy raped by her 60-year-old father-in-law in Nagra area in Ballia, a senior officer said on Wednesday. A person filed a complaint that her niece was raped by her father-in-law following which an FIR was lodged on Wednesday, additional superintendent of police Ashok Tripathi said. The girl, who is currently staying with her parents, had got married in 2012 in November. A medical examination...
04:33 PM, May 01, 2013
Kolkata: A class 6 student was first attacked with acid and then raped by two boys in West Bengal's Bardhaman district on Monday night. The incident took place when the girl was returning from school. Two boys allegedly stopped her on the way and first threw acid on her and then raped her. When the girl reached home and told her family members, they took her to the police station....
01:17 PM, May 01, 2013
Allahabad: A BSc student was allegedly abducted and gangraped by four men in a moving car in Allahabad. The girl has been admitted to a hospital and is in a critical condition. After raping the girl the accused threw her out of the car and fled. The girl was admitted to a hospital where she regained consciousness after two days and narrated her ordeal. The police had reportedly tried to...
12:01 PM, May 01, 2013
Gurgaon: Two men allegedly gangraped a 23-year-old girl in a moving car in Sohna near Gurgaon. The police have arrested one of the accused named by the victim while the others are still absconding. According to the victim, she came with her friend Devendra in his SUV from Delhi to Gurgaon for shopping. A friend of Devendra was also in the car, she said. She added that they went to...
11:12 AM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: India has a set of complex laws which have to be simplified in order to reduce the incidence of corruption, Delhi Lokayukta Justice Manmohan Sarin said on Tuesday. The doctrine of name-and-shame can also be one of the ways to deal with a corrupt government official and practiced by anyone who wants to stand up against corruption, he said. Speaking at a seminar to launch a book titled...
03:46 AM, May 01, 2013
Jaipur: A man was arrested in Rajasthan's Karauli district on Tuesday for raping a six-year-old girl during a wedding function, said police. The girl was admitted to a hospital with serious injuries, they added. According to police, the incident occurred late on Monday night in a village near Masalpura town in the district, some 200 km from Jaipur. "The girl had come with her parents to participate in the wedding....
02:06 AM, May 01, 2013
Meerut: Four youths allegedly gangraped a minor girl when she was going to relieve herself in a jungle near a village in Meerut, police said on Tuesday. A report has been lodged against the four youths, who are all absconding, police said. The girl has been sent for medical examination, they said. Locals have alleged that efforts are being made to hush up the matter. They have claimed that the...
12:45 AM, May 01, 2013
Gurgaon: A youth was beaten to death here at a wedding after a tiff over playing songs, police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred in Kherki Majra village under Rajendra Park police station in Gurgaon on early Tuesday. Ompal, 19, of Sakhrod village of Bhiwani district in Haryana, who was the part of a procession, was beaten to death by fellow revellers. According to police, some youths were dancing at...
11:43 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Durban: An Indian-origin schoolboy was stabbed to death and his brother injured in a gang attack after a spat over a girl. Dareshan Moodley, 16, was stabbed to death and his brother Revarsheen, 18, is recovering in a hospital here after they were stabbed, beaten and left for dead in a street in the mainly-Indian suburb of Chatsworth. It was the second attack on Dareshan. He survived in the first...
05:43 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Melbourne: An Indian-origin man, convicted of murdering his wife and two minor daughters, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an court in Fiji. 33-year-old Bimlesh Dayal was sentenced by the high court in Suva, the capital of the island nation of Fiji, for murdering his wife Ranjini Rekha Singh and two daughters, Amisha and Anisha, on October 28, 2011, at their family home in Vatuwaqa, the 'Fiji Times' reported....
03:49 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Nagpur: The mother of the five-year-old girl, who died after being brutally raped at Ghansaur town in Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh, on Tuesday said the accused should be given a "harsh punishment" so that no one in future dares to carry out such a heinous act. "The rape accused deserves harsh punishment and should be burnt to death publicly," said the emotionally choked mother of the deceased girl to...
02:10 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Muzaffarnagar: A 16-year-old girl was burnt alive allegedly by her neighbour after she resisted his attempt to rape her at Kairana Town in Shamli district. After setting the girl afire, the 22-year-old accused, Surender Kashyap, also attempted suicide by consuming poison. Surender on Monday evening went to the girl's house when she was alone and allegedly tried to rape her, Deputy Superintendent of Police CP Singh said. When the girl...
01:59 PM, Apr 30, 2013
