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
The Maharashtra State Minorities Commission chief Munaf Hakim has reportedly written a letter to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde asking for the Parbhani, Nanded and Jalna blast cases to be handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). ...
02:32 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Rubbishing allegations of negligence being meted out towards the minority community, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said the state government had already completed nearly 90 per cent of the recommendations made by Sachar Committee for their welfare. ...
03:20 AM, Jan 19, 2013
A Delhi court has extended by two weeks the judicial custody of a youth and his cousin, arrested for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl after befriending her on a social networking site. ...
05:04 PM, Jan 18, 2013
The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Centre and the Delhi Police after a Chandigarh-based lawyer filed a PIL seeking that the juvenile accused in the horrific Delhi gangrape case be considered as an adult. The PIL stated that the mental age, and not the physical age, of the accused should be taken into consideration, considering he had been involved in such a heinous crime. ...
12:46 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Goa Police on Wednesday released a sketch of the suspect in connection with the rape case of a seven-year-old girl. It also declared an award of Rs 50,000 for providing information about the suspect. A 15-member special investigation team has also been formed to track the suspect, who has been at large after committing the crime. ...
08:05 AM, Jan 17, 2013
The Rajasthan High Court on January 16 asked the state government to suspend an additional superintendent of police for not filing a proper chargesheet in a case of gangrape of a 13-year-old girl. A single judge bench of the court directed IG Bharatpur to initiate action against the ASP in the gang-rape case, which happened in Bharatpur district in April 2012. ...
09:58 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Two minor tribal girls were allegedly raped by two brothers near the construction site of the proposed Kakaito Dam under the Govardhan police station recently, the police said on Wednesday. A driver and an electrician raped the two girls - aged 14 and 15 years - on January 9 and 13 respectively, they said. ...
09:26 AM, Jan 16, 2013
A fast track court in New Delhi on Tuesday sentenced to death a 60-year-old farmhouse guard for raping and killing a three-year-old girl. Holding Bharat Singh guilty of raping and killing a rickshaw puller's minor daughter two years ago, Judge Virender Bhat termed the offence as "rarest of rare". ...
03:56 AM, Jan 16, 2013
A youth on Tuesday assaulted a 14-year-old girl after a failed rape attempt in the Chaubeypur area in Kanpur, police said. The girl, a Class X student and resident of Joravarpur village, was on way to her school when Chaggan who also belongs to the same village forcefully dragged her to the fields and tried to rape her, SP Rural Area Manoj Sonkar said. ...
02:40 AM, Jan 16, 2013
The Juvenile Justice Board has reserved its order on the age of the minor accused in the Delhi gangrape-murder case till January 28. On Tuesday, two school principals, former and current, of the minor accused appeared before the court. Their statements were recorded and the court reserved its order till January 28. ...
04:32 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party government, the Opposition Congress on Tuesday alleged that a ruling party MLA had disclosed the identity of a rape survivor of Raipur, Chhattisgarh and demanded registration of FIR against him. "BJP MLA Nand Kumar Sahu has disclosed the identity of the minor girl who was allegedly raped one month ago in the Urla area," Shaliesh Nitin Trivedi Congress spokesperson said. ...
02:54 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Two officials of Chhattisgarh education department were on Monday arrested in connection with the rape of minor inmates of a government-run residential school for tribal girls at Jhaliyamari village in Kanker district. With Monday's arrests, the total number of those held so far has reached eight, including two teachers. ...
03:56 PM, Jan 14, 2013
A 23-year-old youth, who had to appear before police in Piparia town in connection with abduction and rape of a minor girl, allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in a train in Bhopal, police said. The deceased, Golu Sharma, was asked by his lawyer to appear before police on Sunday. ...
01:15 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy is likely to appear before a Juvenile Justice Board in Delhi on Monday to argue for lowering the prosecution age of the minor in the Delhi gangrape case so that the juvenile could be tried at a fast-track court like other five accused. ...
10:31 AM, Jan 14, 2013
A 24-year-old youth was arrested on charges of attempting to molest a minor girl in nearby Tirupur, police said on Sunday. The accused took the 8-year-old minor girl to a lonely spot and tried to sexually abuse her, the police added. ...
11:55 AM, Jan 13, 2013
A village school teacher was arrested for allegedly molesting two minor girl students at Nangenatti village, about 20 km from Belgaum, police said. ...
07:36 PM, Jan 12, 2013
A panchayat in Udaipur district has asked families of the minority community not to allow girls to carry cellphones and prohibit them from dancing at wedding processions in public view. ...
04:57 PM, Jan 12, 2013
In a shocking incident, a minor was arrested in Mumbai on Thursday for allegedly killing his classmate who had teased him over bunking the tuition class. ...
01:16 AM, Jan 11, 2013
A 32-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly repeatedly sexually abusing a seven-year-girl from his neighbourhood in suburban Mumbai, police said. ...
12:26 AM, Jan 09, 2013
