The Gujarat High Court on Friday turned down the state government's contention that students belonging to the minority community cannot be given scholarships at the pre-matric level. ...
03:16 PM, Feb 15, 2013
A school teacher was arrested on Thursday for allegedly outraging the modesty of three tribal minor girl students for three years, the police said. Three girls of the local Shivaji High School, two of them studying in the ninth standard and one in the tenth standard, had lodged a complaint with police station in Gadchiroli that their teacher Ganesh Wasu used to misbehave with them by calling them to the...
01:57 AM, Feb 15, 2013
The Juvenile Justice Board on Thursday is likely to hear arguments for framing charges against the minor accused in the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape. The Delhi police had filed a supplementary chargesheet against the juvenile during the last hearing in the case. ...
07:00 AM, Feb 14, 2013
A 12-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly raping a six-year-old girl in his neighbourhood in Bhopal, police said on Tuesday. On Sunday, the boy took the girl to a construction site near their home in Kiran Nagar area of the city where he allegedly raped her. ...
02:15 PM, Feb 12, 2013
A 15-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by a juvenile and three unidentified persons in Balodbazar district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Sunday. "Based on the complaint of the girl, a case has been registered against a juvenile and his three unidentified friends for allegedly gangraping the minor in Balodabzar yesterday (Saturday)," Balodabazar police station house officer Ramgopal Soni said. ...
09:03 PM, Feb 10, 2013
A case of sexual assault was registered against unidentified persons after a six-month-old girl was brought in a profusely bleeding state at a civic-run hospital in Mumbai, police said on Thursday. ...
06:04 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday imposed a complete ban on the transfer and development of land around shrines of minority communities in the wake of allegations about the illegal sale of a gurdwara's property by a state-run body. ...
05:06 AM, Feb 07, 2013
A nine-year-old girl has given birth to a daughter in Mexico, a media report said on Wednesday. ...
04:46 AM, Feb 07, 2013
A 60-year-old man was on Wednesday arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl a year ago, police said here. Rajkumar Soni, a jeweller, allegedly raped the 14-year-old victim and gave her Rs 500 to keep quiet, Raipur District Additional SP Lal Ummed Singh said. ...
11:40 PM, Feb 06, 2013
A Class IV girl student was allegedly molested by her school headmaster in the institute premises, police said on February 6. The victim, student of Government Primary School, was molested by Jagdamba Prasad (59), who was drunk on February 5, Circle Officer Aruna Bhartee said. The accused has been arrested. ...
04:10 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Less than three weeks after a paedophile lured a seven-year-old girl to a Goa school toilet and raped her, another paedophile has been arrested for molesting four minor girls from Margao for the period of several months , police said Sunday. ...
04:00 PM, Feb 03, 2013
In what is a 'rags to riches' story, Chanda Zaveri fled from the pressures of getting married at 17 and returned home 30 years later as a millionaire. Born in a conservative Marwari family, her mother wanted to force her into a marriage that she did not want and a life that she did not choose. ...
10:29 AM, Feb 01, 2013
A 21-year-old youth allegedly raped a three-year-old girl in Cant area in Bareilly, police said on Wednesday. ...
11:56 AM, Jan 30, 2013
The family of Delhi braveheart on Monday termed the Juvenile Justice Board's decision of ruling the sixth accused in the case minor as "unfortunate". ...
11:51 PM, Jan 28, 2013
The family of Delhi braveheart on Monday termed the Juvenile Justice Board's decision of ruling the sixth accused in the case minor as "unfortunate" and said that they would challenge it in the court. "The family would consult legal experts and challenge the matter in the relevant court," the brother of the girl said. ...
10:10 PM, Jan 28, 2013
In a major setback to the prosecution in the Delhi gangrape case, the Juvenile Justice Board has declared that the sixth accused is a minor. The board, which based its ruling on the basis of the accused's school records, said there was no doubt about it. ...
04:26 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Holding a man guilty of raping a 15-year-old friend of his daughter, a fast track court has said delay by victim in lodging complaint of sexual violence should not be a mitigating factor for conviction of accused as it is agonising for victims to confide in such cases. "Sexual assault destroys the entire psychology of a woman and pushes her into deep emotional crisis." ...
04:39 PM, Jan 27, 2013
From mobile jammers to CCTV cameras to barbed wires, Goa's schools are taking no chances ever since the spine-chilling rape of a seven-year-old girl in a school toilet on January 15 shocked the state. With the rapist still untraced and on the run and a team of over a dozen policemen floundering in their probe, institutions spurred on by a worried education ministry are now coming up with 'innovations' to...
03:23 PM, Jan 27, 2013
A young boy axed his father to death for allegedly molesting his sister in Indore in Uttar Pradesh in the wee hours on Thursday, police said. The maternal grandfather and uncle of the teenage boy helped him in killing his 45-year-old father. ...
03:42 PM, Jan 24, 2013
A court on Tuesday granted bail to Sharlet Furtado, the headmistress of the school in Vasco town, where an unidentified man raped a seven-year-old student on January 14. The Goa Children's court granted her bail on a surety of Rs 25,000. ...
05:30 PM, Jan 22, 2013
