Jamnagar: A 30-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly killing her toddler son by setting him ablaze at her residence on Wednesday, apparently following a dispute with her husband, police said. "Vandana, wife of one Kishore Vadgama who is a carpenter by profession, today burnt her two-year-old son Raunak alive, after dousing him with kerosene," they said.
The incident took place this morning at Vambay Awaas Yojana, where the couple is staying, when Vadgama was out on work and Vandana was alone in the house, they said. During investigations, Vadgama told the police that his wife was mentally unstable and therefore had taken the extreme step.
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12:35 AM, May 09, 2013
Pune: A 22-year-old mentally challenged woman was raped allegedly by a ward boy at a nursing home whose doctors have been arrested on charge of trying to bribe the survivor's family to hush up the matter. The incident occurred at Walhekarwadi in Chinchwad town near Pune on April 16 in the nursing home run by Dr Vishal Sonawane (34) and his wife Dr Varsha (31) where the victim was undergoing...
10:54 PM, Apr 21, 2013
A mentally ill woman was reportedly raped by a person posing as a coffee seller at Madurai railway station early Wednesday, police said. The 32-year-old woman was waiting with her mother to board a train to Elanchi village after treatment in Madurai when the man approached them and offered her mother coffee laced with sedatives. ...
10:07 PM, Mar 13, 2013
While the laws on crimes against women still need strengthening, activists say no attention is paid to how the upholders of the law, the police, even at senior levels, do their job on the ground. In a Haryana city, just a 100 kms from Delhi, a DSP displayed complete callousness in dealing with a gangrape case where the survivor is a mentally challenged and visually impaired minor girl. ...
09:31 PM, Mar 07, 2013
A local court has ordered registration of a case against the Archbishop of Bhopal and two others for allegedly conspiring to make a priest and former spokesperson of the local church mentally unsound by administering drugs. Judicial Magistrate First Class Alok Mishra ordered the filing of a case against Archbishop Father Leo Cornelio and the other two under IPC Sections 328 (causing hurt by means of poison etc with intent...
03:35 PM, Feb 16, 2013
A 35-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping a 21-year-old mentally challenged woman living in his neighbourhood in a village in Jamnagar, police said on Tuesday. ...
04:57 PM, Feb 05, 2013
A mentally-challenged 15-year-old girl in New York was brutally gang-raped by two boys in her classroom with her teacher standing only a few feet away, a media report said on Sunday. ...
06:53 PM, Jan 13, 2013
A differently-abled woman was allegedly raped by an employee of the Sadar hospital here in Bihar's East Champaran district, police said on Sunday. Acting on the complaint of locals, District Civil Surgeon Saroj Singh lodged an FIR against Ram Sakal Ram in the town police station, Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar said. ...
08:54 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Chennai: After spending 18 years at a home for mentally challenged women in Chennai, a schizophrenic woman from Gujarat was reunited with her brother. Sadly for Chandrika Ben, who hails from the small village of Marohi, which is 6 km outside Surat, her husband who abandoned her all those years ago still wants nothing to do with her. According to a volunteer at Udhavum Karangal, the NGO that took Chandrika...
01:04 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Mumbai: Constable Pramod Tawde, who is facing a departmental inquiry for offering a flower to MNS chief Raj Thackeray last Tuesday, has been assessed and certified as mentally fit by medical experts. MiD DAY had reported on Tawdes controversial gesture of gratitude last week. According to sources in the Byculla wireless department where he works, an overjoyed Tawde distributed sweets upon learning from a superior on Saturday that he had...
04:51 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Madurai: A sick societys child. That is how one can describe the heartrending tale of Kannathal (name changed), a mentally-ill rape victim who gave birth to a boy 10 months ago. Not only does she fail to recognise the man who sexually assaulted her taking advantage of her unstable mind, but she also cannot recognise her child. While her case is pending in a trial court, she does not even...
12:28 PM, Jul 30, 2012
Nanjangud (Karnataka): Left in the wild to get killed, many of them do not know where they came from and who they are. The shelter home Karunalaya, on the edge of Karnataka's Bandipur Tiger Reserve, provides the 55-odd mentally challenged to eke out their existence with some dignity. "These unfortunate people are immune from hope and despair. They are not waiting for anyone, as no one will come to take...
10:47 AM, Jul 06, 2012
In Tamil Nadu, a woman has sought the right to die for her 14-year-old differently-abled daughter. ...
12:08 PM, Jul 04, 2012
Erode(Tamil Nadu): In a heart-rending plea to authorities, a middle-aged woman has sought euthanasia for her 14-year-old cerebral palsy-affected daughter. The unusual petition was submitted by the woman on Monday during the grievances redress meeting at the Erode District Collectorate. In her petition, she stated that she came to Erode seven years ago with her husband, a carpenter by profession. Besides her differently abled daughter, she was having another daughter....
12:23 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Karauli: Unable to pay for her treatment and with no assistance from the government, the family of a 65-year-old, mentally-ill woman in Rajasthan's Karauli district has kept her chained for more than seven years now. Ramshri Devi is a resident of Khohara Ghusethi village near Hindon town in the district, over 200 km from Jaipur. She is sometimes tied to a tree and sometimes confined to a room with her...
09:29 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Jaipur: A 20-year-old mentally challenged girl was allegedly raped by a witch doctor who was approached by her family members for a cure for her ailment, police said on Saturday. A first information report was registered against the man on Saturday at the Amber police station. According to police, the girl, a resident of the city, had developed some mental illness and her family members thought that it was due...
12:21 AM, Apr 15, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Forty-one mentally challenged inmates were found living in pathetic conditions in a dubious asylum in Thrissur in Kerala. The inmates were chained to their beds, without clothes, with not even a proper roof above their heads. The inmates, who are mostly men and two to three children were rescued after a raid by the district health department and revealed their appalling conditions. They were transferred to the Thrissur Mental...
02:08 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Lucknow: Exactly two weeks after he was declared "mentally unstable" when he openly lambasted the state government for alleged corruption, the Uttar Pradesh government on Friday transferred deputy inspector general of police (DIG) DD Misra to the state Anti-Corruption Bureau. An order to this effect was issued by the state home department late on Friday evening. Interestingly, the inquiry earlier ordered by the state government against Misra had been entrusted...
10:42 AM, Nov 19, 2011
Mumbai: In a shocking reality, a recent Maharashtra state committee report has shown how mentally challenged children are neglected and raped at the homes meant to take care. A quiet home tucked away in Panvel in Navi Mumbai caused a furore earlier in 2011 when five mentally challenged girls were rescued after being allegedly raped by their caretakers. A Bombay High Court-appointed state committee for child protection, which in a...
08:45 AM, Nov 16, 2011
Bhubaneswar: Diwali festivities are being used as a way to provide therapy to 150 mentally-challenged women at 'Mission Ashra' in Bhubaneswar. This Diwali India is positive and shining. For the 150 mentally-ill women at 'Mission Ashra' this festival is not just about crackers. For the past eight years, this rehabilitation centre has successfully used Diwali festivities as a therapy for the recovery of these patients. 'Mission Ashra' has transformed the...
04:30 PM, Oct 26, 2011
