Noted Marathi writer and Padma Shri awardee Laxman Mane, who had been absconding, has surrendered after being accused of sexually exploiting 6 women. 63-year-old Mane allegedly raped and molested the women employees at a charity home where he was the working president. ...
10:29 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Delhi Police on Thursday filed its chargesheet in the gruesome gangrape and murder case of the 23-year-old paramedical student before a court in Saket in south Delhi. The chargesheet was filed in a sealed cover against five accused. The chargesheet against the sixth accused, who is a minor, will be filed before a juvenile court. ...
09:03 AM, Jan 04, 2013
The Delhi Police charged five of the accused with murder, rape and destruction of evidence. ...
10:34 PM, Jan 03, 2013
The Delhi Police on Thursday filed the chargesheet in the brutal gangrape and murder case of the 23-year-old paramedical student at the Saket court. Following the move, the Saket court fixed January 5 for cognisance of offence. The chargesheet, which runs into 1000 pages, has been filed against five accused, who have been charged with murder, rape and abduction among other charges. The trial in the case will be in-camera...
05:44 PM, Jan 03, 2013
The Delhi Police team which arrested the six accused who allegedly raped and murdered the 23-year-old Delhi braveheart are now getting ready to file a chargesheet against them following which the case would be heard on a day-to-day basis in a fast-track court in Saket. ...
07:30 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being interrogated in a gangrape case dating back to 2010. ...
02:17 PM, May 22, 2012
New York: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million counter-suit against the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, costing him his job and any chance of being elected president of France. New York police arrested Strauss-Kahn a year ago when hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo accused him of forcible oral sex and trying to rape her in his luxury suite at the Sofitel Hotel in Manhattan....
10:43 PM, May 15, 2012
Mumbai: An FIR was on Tuesday registered against a senior police officer on charge of raping a middle-aged housewife after an internal enquiry concluded his role in the crime, police said. The woman had approached top brass of the city police few weeks ago complaining against Assistant Police Commissioner Anil Mahabole that he had raped and blackmailed her for the past eight months, they said. According to police, the woman...
11:14 PM, Apr 17, 2012
London: Britain's Supreme Court risks jeopardising extraditions to many neighbouring countries if it stops WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being sent to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes, a lawyer for Swedish prosecutors argued on Thursday. On the final day of hearings to determine whether the Australian is freed from house arrest in Britain or flown out to face Swedish investigators, Clare Montgomery told the justices they could set a legal...
12:14 AM, Feb 03, 2012
New York: The son of New York Police Commissioner has been accused by a woman of raping her, a charge that he has denied. Greg Kelly, who is anchor at a local television show, is the son of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. The case is being handled by office of the Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance and not by the Police Department to avoid conflict arising from investigating a case...
11:36 AM, Jan 27, 2012
London: Britain's Supreme Court, the country's highest judicial body, said on Friday it had granted permission for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appeal against extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes. Swedish authorities want to question the 40-year-old Australian, whose website's activities have infuriated the United States, over accusations of rape and sexual assault made by two female former WikiLeaks volunteers in August 2010. Assange, who has been living in...
12:17 AM, Dec 17, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a last-ditch effort on Tuesday to stave off his extradition to Sweden over sex-crime allegations, filing papers to see if he can win an audience and appeal to Britain's highest court. In the latest twist in Assange's year-long extradition battle, Britain's Judicial Office said Assange filed an application for the chance to persuade judges he should be allowed one last appeal in the Supreme...
01:53 AM, Nov 16, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will learn next week of the verdict in his fight against his extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of sexual misconduct, the organization said on Thursday. WikiLeaks staffer Joseph Farrell said that Britain's High Court had informed Assange it will deliver judgment on his appeal on November 2, "The court told us. We have no further details," Farrell said in a text message. In February,...
05:21 AM, Oct 28, 2011
Washington: Dominique Strauss Kahn, the former head of the IMF visited the Washington headquarters of the body to briefly meet with his successor and say goodbye to staffers. "Mr Strauss-Kahn visited IMF Headquarters this afternoon. I can confirm that the Managing Director met briefly with him prior to Mr Strauss-Kahn's meeting with Fund staff," an IMF spokesman said on Monday. "These were private meetings, arranged at his request. We have...
07:59 AM, Aug 30, 2011
London: China is the "technological enemy" of WikiLeaks and not the United States, according to Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blower website which is fighting a running battle to penetrate the aggressive and sophisticated Chinese censorship. "China is the worst offender," when it comes to censorship, says the controversial Australian hacker, now on bail in Britain fighting attempts to extradite him to Sweden over claims of sexual assaults. The...
11:45 AM, Jan 14, 2011
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01:36 PM, Dec 18, 2010
London: With a worldwide Interpol Red corner notice out against him, the British police are claiming that they know the whereabouts of the WikiLeaks Chief Julian Assange, but can't apprehend him as the Swedish warrants are unenforceable. Assange's British based lawyer Mark Stephens says the country's authorities know where he is hiding, The Times reported. "The police know how to get hold of him, as does the Swedish prosecutor. Yet...
05:26 PM, Dec 02, 2010
New Delhi: In a big turnaround in the actor Shiney Ahuja maid rape case, the domestic help has told the court that the actor never raped her. The 20-year-old maid told a fast-track court that she had slapped false charges on the actor. The woman told a fast-track court last week that she lodged the police complaint against Shiney after the woman who got her the job with the Ahujas...
08:16 AM, Sep 08, 2010
Stockholm: Swedish authorities say they have revoked an arrest warrant that had alleged rape against the founder and editor of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. Assange is "no longer wanted" and "is not suspected of rape," Chief Prosecutor Eva Finne said in a statement posted on the agency's official website Saturday. He is also no longer arrested in absentia, the statement said. The arrest warrant filed on Friday had...
09:24 PM, Aug 21, 2010
Fransisco Pacheco has disappeared after he was questioned by the Crime Branch over the mysterious suicide of his 'friend'. ...
10:10 AM, Jun 06, 2010
