Protesters took to the street in the national capital on Saturday, demanding justice for the 5-year-old, who was brutally raped, assaulted, nearly killed and kept captive by a man in east Delhi. Angry crowds demonstrated outside police headquarters, despite the arrest of the arrest of the main accused, Manoj Kumar. ...
10:42 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Six Spanish tourists were raped by a gang of armed, masked men in the Mexican resort of Acapulco, the latest chapter of violence that has tarnished the once-glamorous Pacific coast resort. The vicious, hours-long attack occurred before dawn on February 4 at a house that six Spanish men, six Spanish women and a Mexican woman had rented on a quiet, idyllic stretch of beach on the outskirts of Acapulco. ...
11:39 AM, Feb 06, 2013
A 43-year-old man has got a life imprisonment for raping a 15-year-old girl, who was a friend of his daughter, with a fast-track court holding rape is the most hated crime as it is against the basic human right of a woman. Fast-track court judge Virender Bhat held Surya Prakash guilty of raping the minor, saying his act calls for a "very harsh punishment" as he had raped the friend...
05:42 PM, Jan 31, 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
More than 50 per cent rapes are committed at home by a non-stranger. Two sisters in Gujarat were allegedly raped for years by their father. "My father used to rape me, he warned me not to tell anyone about it. I was too scared to tell anyone," one of them said. ...
07:45 AM, Jan 25, 2013
The school headmistress, who was arrested following the alleged rape of a seven-year old girl student on the school premises, has claimed that she is being made a scapegoat in the case. Police had on January 20 arrested headmistress Sharlet Furtado for negligence on her part which led to the rape of the girl in the toilet of the school in Vasco town on January 14. ...
02:15 PM, Jan 23, 2013
A month after releasing the three-digit emergency number for women in Delhi, the government on Monday said it will make available the '181' women helpline number to all states of the country. "We will give single emergency number 181 to women across the country," Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal told reporters. ...
03:20 PM, Jan 21, 2013
In the wake of the state-wide protests over the Kanker rape case, Raman Singh-led BJP government has decided to send a proposal to the Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court to set up fast-track courts in all the districts for speedy disposal of rape cases. ...
03:55 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Police on January 20 arrested five youths for allegedly raping a teenage girl in the district and preparing her obscene video on a mobile phone. The arrest was made under Sections 376 (rape), 292 (sale etc of obscene video), 506 (criminal intimidation) and some other Sections of the IPC, police said. ...
01:52 PM, Jan 20, 2013
A student of the Allahabad University allegedly sent an e-mail to a classmate he was infatuated with, threatening her that she will meet "the same fate as the victim of the Delhi gang-rape" if she spurned his advances, a varsity official on Saturday said. ...
03:54 PM, Jan 19, 2013
An 18-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by a group of dacoits at a village near here, police said on January 19. A gang of 5-6 dacoits, in the age group of 25 to 30 years, struck at the huts in Nawargaon village under Kuhi taluka in Nagpur rural last night between 8 and 10 PM. ...
01:53 PM, Jan 19, 2013
A bus conductor has been arrested for sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl in a school bus in Mumbai. The accused bus conductor has been sent to police custody till February 1. ...
01:10 PM, Jan 19, 2013
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth, meanwhile in a separate incident a man allegedly raped his widow daughter-in-law, police said on January 19. The 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth in Airchira Kalan village in Safidon sub-division on January 18. ...
12:44 PM, Jan 19, 2013
The brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old para-medical student in Delhi in December 2012 was perhaps one of the worst examples of public apathy. In another unfortunate incident in Ambala, the passengers in a bus stood watching when the conductor was stabbed for taking on molesters. ...
08:02 AM, Jan 19, 2013
A six-year-old rape survivor in Delhi has been facing trauma during test identification parades that require the victim to come face-to-face with the accused. Her father has turned Citizen Journalist demanding sensitive investigation. ...
09:02 AM, Jan 18, 2013
Union Minister of State for Home RPN Singh travelled in DTC buses at night to check security for common people especially women, in the wake of the brutal gangrape and killing of a 23-year-old girl in New Delhi in December. ...
12:46 AM, Jan 18, 2013
The parents of a minor girl, who was raped in a Goa school four days back, have alleged that the school staff tried to destroy the evidence of the crime. "School teachers washed her clothes, gave her bath and cleaned the toilet after the sexual assault," the parents alleged. ...
11:56 AM, Jan 17, 2013
Fifty per cent rape cases in Rajasthan still await justice and forty per cent cases are dismissed as 'false' by the police in the state. Outraged people protested outside the Sodala police station in Jaipur against an officer who refused to register a case of sexual assault on an 11-year-old by a construction worker. His explanation was that 'it wasn't a rape after all'. ...
09:10 AM, Jan 16, 2013
There is no end to cases of atrocities against women in India. More cases of rapes, murders, assault have been reported from different parts of the country. While in Meerut, an engineer killed his 23-year-old daughter allegedly because he wanted a son, in Pune a woman was allegedly abducted and beaten up and in Haryana a school girl attempted suicide after being allegedly raped. ...
11:22 AM, Jan 12, 2013
There seems to be no let-up in cases of atrocities against women. A woman was allegedly abducted at Ahmednagar and kept confined at a brothel in Dhule for 48 hours. What's worse is that she also had to face brutality when she tried to lodge a complaint after escaping from the brothel. ...
10:21 AM, Jan 12, 2013
