British television star Jimmy Savile is suspected of carrying out an unprecedented number of sex offences including 31 rapes, police said on Wednesday in their most comprehensive review of the scandal. Revelations about Savile, who died last year, provoked outrage across Britain where he had been a household name since the 1960s. ...
01:02 PM, Dec 13, 2012
In another case of Northeast Indians being targeted, a theatre person from Manipur alleged that she was heckled by a crowd in Bangalore, that passed lewd and racist comments and abused her. What is even more shocking is that the policeman who she turned to for help allegedly ended up shouting back and shoving her and called her a nuisance. ...
12:28 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Three Goa policemen were suspended for allegedly exploiting commercial sex workers in Panaji, police said on Friday. Two head constables - Vaman Naik and Santosh Vengurlekar - and constable Vijay Gaikwad were suspended on Thursday after two commercial sex workers named them in their complaint to the crime branch, police said. ...
11:46 AM, Dec 07, 2012
The Child and Women Development Ministry has recommended action against four senior officials following allegations of sexual exploitation of Mumbai's Navjeevan Mahila Vastigruha (women welfare home) inmates. Maharashtra government has suspended the welfare home caretaker and ordered the transfer of two others. ...
04:17 PM, Nov 29, 2012
A few days ago reports of women inmates being sexually abused at the Navjeevan Mahila Vastigruha (women welfare home) in Mumbai had shocked the metropolis. Following the allegations a committee consisting of Superintendent of Police Dr Rashmi Karandikar and psychologist Dr Harish Shetty was set up by the Bombay High Court, which has now submitted its report. ...
12:06 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Kochi: A shocking tale of sexual abuse which authorities at a school in Kochi allegedly tried to supress. The victim, a class VIII student, said that his complaint against a teacher fell on deaf ears. Raju (name changed) said, "On September 17, I went along with my friends to our class teacher to report (about how I was abused by the IT teacher). But he told me - to err...
07:22 AM, Oct 19, 2012
Kottayam: Two kids who lived in juvenile home in Kottayam, Kerala have finally spoken out against the atrocities carried out by the attackers, who were none other than caretakers and senior boys at the home. After months of abuse, two children have come forward with tales of how caretakers and senior boys sexually abused them. One of the kids said, "They beat us with large sticks. At night the wardens...
08:49 AM, Oct 11, 2012
London: A "shocked" British Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday called for allegations of sexual abuse against late Jimmy Savile, one of the biggest stars on British radio and television, to be fully probed. Cameron said that the claims from a number of women which have emerged over recent weeks that they were abused by Savile as teenagers were "truly shocking". Five women alleged that Savile sexually assaulted them as...
09:51 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Tonk: The students of the Banasthali Vidyapith in Tonk, Rajasthan, took out a protest march on Thursday night after two of their classmates were allegedly sexually abused for over a week. The protesting students said that a class 11 girl and a B. Tech. student were harassed by two outsiders and that the university administration was trying to hush up the matter. Almost 5,000 students protested outside the campus late...
11:29 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: There is a reason why the national capital is called the crime capital of the country. In less than 24 hours, two cases of sexual abuse have come to light, both involving school bus drivers and minors were the targets in both the cases. In the first incident, a three-year-old boy was allegedly sodomised by his school bus driver and cleaner. The incident happened in south Delhi. The...
09:26 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Jammu: Two school teachers were arrested from different districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday in connection with two different cases. In Kishtwar, a teacher at a girls school was arrested for allegedly attempting to rape a student. The school has been shut for a few days. Meanwhile, in Baramulla, another teacher was arrested for allegedly verbally abusing a class 10 student, who had not performed well in his examinations....
09:52 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Namakkal: Cracking the whip on child abusers who run homes for the helpless, officials here closed down a home following complaints of sexual abuse. "The Joy Karunai Illam, which functioned at Vasanthapuram, off the Tiruchy-Namakkal road, near here, was closed down after an inquiry proved allegations of sexual abuse," district child protection officer (DCPO) M Selvam told Express on Monday. Incidents of abuse in the home, where 21 children stayed,...
09:50 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Indore: A youth was on Tuesday arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a minor girl in Indore, police said. One Chaman (21) forcibly took the eight-year-old girl, a rag picker, to a secluded place and sexually abused her last week in Bhanwarkua area of the city, police said. The girl's parents filed an FIR in the incident on Monday, following which police nabbed the accused. The girl was sent for a...
05:40 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Boston: The men came from different walks of life on two continents: a children's puppeteer in Florida, a hotel manager in Massachusetts, an emergency medical technician in Kansas, a day care worker in the Netherlands. In all, 43 men have been arrested over the past two years in a horrific, far-flung child porn network that unraveled like a sweater with a single loose thread. In this case, the thread was...
09:14 AM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: Days after the shocking stories of abuse at the Apna Ghar shelter home in Rohtak, Haryana, another shelter in Karnal has been shut down after allegations of sexual and physical abuse surfaced. A case has been registered against Monica Das, who runs the Apna Ghar shelter in Karnal. All the inmates, 6 boys and 5 girls, have been shifted to other shelter homes. A medical examination showed that...
06:42 AM, Aug 04, 2012
New Delhi: A teacher at a private school in Bangalore has been accused of sexually abusing several of his female students. The Hindi teacher who began teaching just a month ago, is accused of passing lewd remarks at class IX students and physically abusing them. The victims allege he threatened to fail them in their exams if they revealed his conduct. The incident came to light after two of the...
06:56 AM, Jul 29, 2012
Washington/Bhubaneswar: A senior Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Surendra Prasad Mohapatra, who is in the US on a training course, has been detained by police in Pennsylvania following a woman staff's complaint of "sexual assault" at a hotel where he was staying. The incident is reported to have happened on Tuesday night following which the officer was put under detention by the local police, sources said on Thursday. Mohapatra is...
02:33 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Chennai: A 57-year-old teacher was arrested on charges of sexually abusing a seven-year-old student on Monday. Police said the boy, a student of Class III in a private school in Saidapet opened up to an uncle about the abuse he suffered under the accused, Reuban Ravikumar, a teacher in the same school. The behaviour of the accused came to light when the family of the boy noticed a change in...
12:29 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Kolkata: In a relief for athlete Pinki Pramanik, the Calcutta High court has ordered a probe into the alleged violation of her rights. The court has asked cyber crime experts to probe the rights violation. The court has also asked the government to file an affidavit against the allegations of the rights violation within two weeks. The Calcutta High Court was hearing a PIL filed against the violation of Pinki...
03:26 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Allahabad: After Haryana, comes another shelter shocker, this time from Uttar Pradesh. And again like the last time, it is the government-run shelters that are in the net. While four minor girls were allegedly abused in Allahabad, six went missing from Ghaziabad, many fearing that they may have been forced into the flesh trade. On April 5, 2012, a peon working at the Rajkiya Bal Grih in Allahabad, allegedly sexually...
01:58 PM, Jun 19, 2012
