Mumbai: A four-year-old girl child was allegedly raped by an unidentified man in Kandivali area of Mumbai. The child was found with several injury marks on her body after the assault. The police have registered a case of abduction and rape, but no arrests have been made till now. According to the police, the four-year-old girl was abducted when she was playing outside her home. When her parents could not...
12:08 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: A prosecution witness on Monday told a fast track court in New Delhi that the bite marks on the body of the Delhi braveheart were likely caused by two of the accused in the case. The witness, who practices forensic odontology which deals with the proper handling, examination and evaluation of dental evidence, submitted that some of the bite marks on the 23-year-old girl reasonably matched the dental...
10:47 AM, May 07, 2013
Shillong: A minor girl was allegedly raped by an unidentified armed man in Boldamgre village in Meghalaya's Garo Hills district, police said on Monday. A group of over 15 people armed with daggers, machetes and other weapons from Assam's Hat-Singimari area raided the village, located about 12 km from Garobadha town near Shillong, and went from house to house attacking its inhabitants on Sunday, they said. The girl, who ran...
10:01 AM, May 07, 2013
Ranchi: A man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 14-year-old step-daughter for the last seven months, police said on Monday. A woman neighbour helped the police in arresting accused Mahendra Sonar. Sonar was married to a woman in Giridih. He later came in contact with a divorced woman in Ranchi and fathered two children -- a three-year-old boy and six-month old daughter, they said. The accused allegedly raped the...
12:40 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court, hearing the December 16 gangrape case on Monday directed the Tihar Jail authorities to file a detailed report on the death of Ram Singh, one of the six accused in the sensational crime. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna's order came after counsel VK Anand, appearing for accused Mukesh (Ram Singh's brother), told the court that jail authorities have not yet complied with the court's March...
11:41 PM, May 06, 2013
Etah: A minor girl was allegedly raped by a 20-year-old youth in Hayatpurmafi village in the district, police said on Monday. The 15-year-old girl, who had came to the village to attend a marriage ceremony, was raped by the accused, identified as Devendra while she was slleping on the terrace, they said. On hearing the cries of the girl, her family members rushed and caught hold of the accused and...
07:14 PM, May 06, 2013
Super star Mahesh Babu has joined Farhan Akhtar's MARD campaign (Men Against Rape and Discrimination). The MARD campaign was started recently by Farhan Akthar, to spread awareness about gender inequality and against the atrocities on women. Veteran lyricist Javed Akthar, father of Farhan Akhtar, has penned down a poem to promote the campaign and it is being translated into different languages. The Southern superstar Mahesh Babu has come forward to...
02:34 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: An eight-year-old girl was raped by a 40-year-old neighbour in New Delhi, police said on Sunday. The accused is on the run. Suspect Rajinder, a jobless man who is the neighbour of the girl in Sarai Rohilla area of north Delhi, lured the victim to his house on Saturday evening and raped her, police said. "The girl's parents approached us on Saturday night," said a police officer, adding...
10:33 AM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: With the trial in the Delhi gangrape case "almost 90 per cent complete", the court verdict is expected to come by the end of May, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said. In an interview with a news channel Neeraj Kumar said: "The trial of December 16 (2012) case is almost 90 per cent complete and judgment is expected by the end of May." On December 16, 2012, a...
10:46 PM, May 05, 2013
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has granted bail to a 20-year-old youth arrested for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl after both of them told the court that they were in a relationship and would like to get married. The accused was arrested on February 21, 2013 by the Nalasopara police after receiving a complaint from the girl's mother that her daughter was missing. The girl, a Class 10 student, had...
12:22 PM, May 05, 2013
London: British MP and senior Conservative Party politician Nigel Evans was arrested on Saturday by the London Police after being accused of raping two men. The reports identify the politician as Deputy House of Commons Speaker Nigel Evans, a 55-year-old from Lancashire, northwest England, who has served in Parliament for two decades. The alleged victims are understood to be men in their 20s. It is understood that Prime Minister David...
07:23 AM, May 05, 2013
London: British media say that a senior Conservative Party politician has been arrested for questioning on suspicion of rape and sexual assault. The reports identify the politician as Deputy House of Commons Speaker Nigel Evans, a 55-year-old from Lancashire, northwest England, who has served in Parliament for two decades. British police do not identify people arrested for questioning who have not been charged. Asked about the arrest of Evans, Lancashire...
03:00 AM, May 05, 2013
Jaipur: A 30-year old married woman was burnt alive for resisting rape in Rajasthan's Hanumgarh district on Saturday, police said. According to police, the incident took place on early Saturday at the district's Nohar area, some 500 km from Jaipur. Circle Officer Kishori Lal said that the woman was sleeping along with her four-year daughter, while her husband was working in the farm when the accused, identified as Jitendra Kumar...
08:30 PM, May 04, 2013
Nagpur: A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth at a wedding hall in Kanhan near in Nagpur, where she had come with her parents to attend a marriage celebration, police said on Saturday. Rakesh alias Chakradhar Jagoji Bele (27), working in an office on the top floor of the wedding hall complex, lured the girl on Friday on the pretext of giving her an ice-cream and raped her...
12:47 PM, May 04, 2013
Hamirpur: A local court on Friday sentenced a school teacher to eight years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 in a rape case committed in March 2012. A class VIII student of the Government School, Kiyarabagh in Hamirpur district had lodged a complaint in Badsar police on June 2, 2012, that a teacher had raped her on March 24 and was repeatedly harassing her. The victim had stopped...
03:57 AM, May 04, 2013
Nagpur/Shahdol: A nine-year-old girl from Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh, who was allegedly gangraped by two persons last week, has been brought to Nagpur and admitted to a private hospital here after her condition deteriorated. The victim is being attended to by a team of doctors, after she was shifted to Nagpur on Thursday from Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Government Medical College in Jabalpur (MP), hospital sources said on Friday....
06:01 PM, May 03, 2013
Thane: A doctor allegedly raped a young woman while she was undergoing treatment at his hospital in Thane, police said on Friday. Dr William Jacob admitted the 24-year-old woman at his private hospital in Diva township of Thane district in March following an illness, Mumbra police station sub-inspector Laxman B Rathod said. According to the complaint lodged by the woman on April 24 while she was in the hospital, the...
03:42 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court said on Friday that the interview, which the Delhi braveheart's friend gave to a TV news channel, could not be used as evidence in the trial proceedings of the December 16 gangrape case. The apex court set aide the order of the Delhi High Court, where it had allowed the interview to be used as evidence in the case. The male friend of the 23-year-old...
01:37 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: A 22-year-old woman accused five people, including two of her brothers-in-laws, of raping her in south Delhi, police said on Wednesday. In her complaint to police, the young woman alleged that she was gangraped by the five men late Tuesday night. The three others involved in the crime were friends of her brothers-in-laws, police said. The accused have all been arrested. According to the woman, a resident of...
09:13 AM, May 02, 2013
Karimnagar/Hyderabad: Four rape incidents, including that of a minor girl and a "mentally challenged" girl, were reported in past five days in Andhra Pradesh, the police said on Wednesday. Three rape incidents were reported in different parts of the state capital since Friday, while another incident occurred in Karimnagar district, the police said. An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her step father on Friday night at her home in...
02:06 AM, May 02, 2013
