Bhubaneswar: A man has been arrested for raping a nine-year-old girl in an Odisha village, police said on Saturday.
Santosh Rout, 45, was arrested after the girl's father lodged a complaint on Friday. The victim, a Class five student, had suffered injury marks on her body, a police officer said.
Rout allegedly dragged the girl to a secluded place and raped her on Thursday evening when she had gone to fetch water from a tube well in Balikana village of Kendrapada district, about 170 km from here.
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10:32 AM, May 18, 2013
Kolkata: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has sought a report from West Bengal officials on the death of an eight-year-old student after he was allegedly assaulted by his teacher in class. The commission took up the matter after a report on CNN-IBN. The NCPCR has asked the South 24 Parganas district administration for a detailed report on the circumstances around the student's death. The eight-year-old, a...
10:21 AM, May 18, 2013
Kolkata: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha on Friday said the recent visit of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to Darjeeling has removed the "miscommunication" between the West Bengal government and the party. GJM leader Harka Bahadur Chhetri said, "There was a miscommunication with the the state...the problem is over now with her (Mamata) recent visit to the Darjeeling hills for development work for the people there." Blaming a section of the people...
12:51 AM, May 18, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals' CEO Raghu Iyer said the arrest of three of its cricketers for alleged role in spot-fixing in the ongoing IPL has caused "immense distress" to everyone associated with the franchise. "All of the Rajasthan Royal owners, management, captain, coach and players and staff are shocked and disappointed at the entire situation which has caused immense distress to us all," Iyer said in a statement. Errant Indian pacer...
10:26 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Friday said it has no reasons to interrogate cricketer Rahul Dravid or Rajasthan Royals owners Raj Kundra and Shilpa Shetty in connection with the spot-fixing case in which three players were arrested. "Delhi Police has no reasons to invite them to join investigation of the spot fixing case," Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said. He said the reports that police may interrogate Shilpa Shetty...
08:05 PM, May 17, 2013
Singapore: A Singaporean Indian was on Friday sentenced to 24 months jail for molesting a 13-year-old boy at his home. S Subramaniam, 45, was found guilty last week after a six-day trial of fondling the boy's private parts in a bedroom at his flat on December 23, 2011 in the suburb Yishun housing estate. Subramaniam would appeal the sentence, reported The Straits Times. The court was told that the student...
06:56 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday congratulated Delhi Police for unearthing the illegal practice of spot-fixing in IPL cricket matches which led to the arrest of three cricketers and several bookies. "I congratulate Delhi Police. Whenever they do good work I appreciate," Shinde told reporters here on the sidelines of an event of border guarding force BSF. He said the probe in the case is at...
05:41 PM, May 17, 2013
Kolkata: Alleged corporal punishment left an 8-year-old dead in South 24 Parganas in West Bengal. The student died after his head was allegedly banged against the wall by a teacher. The incident happened at the Nirdeshkhali school at Basanti in South 24 Parganas. The child was beaten up on May 15 as a punishment for throwing bags across the classroom during the class. The accused teacher has been arrested. More...
01:38 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: A man has been jailed for eight years by a Delhi court for repeatedly raping his 17-year-old daughter and threatening her not to disclose the incident to anyone. Additional Sessions Judge TR Naval sentenced Northeast Delhi resident, saying the convict, who was supposed to protect his daughter, had repeatedly committed the crime when her mother, who later on died, was admitted in a hospital. "Keeping in view the...
01:11 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to pronounce on Friday its order on whether to summon Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in connection with a defamation case filed against him for his alleged 'Hindu terror' remark. Metropolitan Magistrate Amitabh Rawat, who was scheduled to pronounce his verdict on the petition on Thursday, listed it for Friday, saying he had not prepared the whole order. "I have not prepared...
10:50 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: India is likely to press for access to Tahawwur Hussain Rana, and wife and two girlfriends of Mumbai attack terrorist David Headley during Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's visit to the United States next week. Government sources said though India got access to Headley, who carried out a recce of the 26/11 targets for the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, the US has not given any opportunity to question...
08:00 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court has deferred for Friday its order on whether to summon Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in connection with a defamation case filed against him for his alleged 'Hindu terror' remark. Metropolitan Magistrate Amitabh Rawat, who was scheduled to pronounce his verdict on the petition on Thursday, listed it for Friday, saying he has not prepared the whole order. "I have not prepared the whole...
04:10 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals co-owners Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra Thursday said they were in shock after three of their franchise players were arrested on the charges of spot-fixing. "RR is a team that Fights with integrity, Rahul being a front runner. Sad this has happened so close to the Playoffs. This too shall pass," Shilpa Shetty said on the social networking site Twitter. "We @# RR in shock with...
01:56 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: The makers of Akshay Kumar-Shilpa Shetty starrer 'Dhadkan' are planning a sequel to the romantic blockbuster. The 2000 romantic drama, directed by Dharmesh Darshan dealt with the love triangle between Akshay, Shilpa and Sunil Shetty. The film was produced by Ratan Jain of Venus. "A lot of people have been constantly asking me about our plans of making 'Dhadkan 2'. I am happy to announce that we plan to...
12:33 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has announced that fast-track courts will be constituted to look into terror cases where Muslim youths are held accused. The move is being looked by many as an act to appease the minority votebank ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Responding to a query on the need to set up fast-track courts to deal with cases of Muslim youths held on...
11:54 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to pronounce order on whether to summon Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in connection with a defamation suit filed against him for his 'hindu terror' remark. The petitioner has alleged that the Home Minister had willfully made the remark to create ill will between communities. The petitioner has also alleged that these statements aimed at polarising votes ahead of the 2014 general...
06:40 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: A 71-year-old tantric was arrested in New Delhi for raping a 10-year-old girl on the pretext of healing her, police said Wednesday. The girl, who had a migraine, had been advised by a neighbour to seek the tantric's help. Her mother took her to Kanu Lal, a tantric in Govindpuri area in south Delhi on Tuesday evening. Lal asked her mother to leave the room as he would...
04:26 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi government on Wednesday set up a high-level committee to curb child trafficking in the state. An announcement in this regard was made by Kiran Walia, Minister of Social Welfare, Women and Child Development and Education, at a meeting convened by her at the Delhi Secretariat in which several other steps to curb the menace were also made public. Walia said immediate registration of an FIR in...
01:07 AM, May 16, 2013
Banka: Cracking the UPSC is a difficult proposition, especially for aspirants who live in Naxal-infested areas, with no access to proper coaching facilities. But all that has changed in Bihar's Banka district due to the efforts of District Magistrate Dipak Anand and his deputy Sub-Divisional Magistrate Mithilesh Mishra. Together, they conduct free coaching sessions for students taking the UPSC exam from this region. With no proper guidance, the youth in...
11:02 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: Amidst demand for expeditious trial of terror cases involving Muslim youth, the Union Home Ministry has asked all states to set up fast track courts to take up such cases for speedy disposal. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said the Centre has sent an advisory to all states and is also trying to find out how many Muslim inmates (involved in terror cases) were in jail and for...
06:50 PM, May 15, 2013
