Lahore: Relatives of a married woman in Pakistan's Punjab province cut off a barber's nose, lips and tongue and damaged his eyes for allegedly having "illicit relations" with her, police said on Thursday. The incident occurred on Tuesday in Depalpur sub-division, located 80 km from Lahore, the capital of Punjab province. The barber, Muhammad Yousuf, had reportedly developed relations with a married woman who lived in his neighbourhood. On Tuesday,...
01:03 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Kolkata: In a suspected case of ragging, a class 8 student of a public school in West Bengal's West Midnapore district was allegedly attacked by his hostel-mates for refusing to give them his food. The child said that he was tortured with blades and sticks and left bleeding naked on the floor. An FIR has been filed by the police against the suspects. ...
10:27 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Pune: A 37-year-old woman has been arrested by officials of the Market Yard police station for violence against her 45-year-old husband, allegedly for his property. The police said the woman tied her husbands hands with a rope and beat him black and blue, and inflicted burn injuries on him with an iron and deep cuts on his fingers with a kitchen knife. The man was rescued from his home on...
03:21 PM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: In a horrifying incident in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, a 17-year-old boy, who had witnessed a murder, was abducted, stripped and tortured by murder suspects who were out on bail. The victim claimed that the police refused to register his complaint when he approached them. The investigations began only after the suspects circulated the torture video to other witnesses and the media. ...
08:51 AM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday sentenced a retired Army Major and his wife to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment after holding them guilty of torturing their child. The verdict has come after a seven years court battle. The lawyer of the victim said, "Both the parents have been given a sentence of imprisonment for 10 years under Section 307 of the IPC." However, the child's grandparents, who fought...
09:44 PM, Aug 04, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court sentenced the parents who tortured their three-year-old kid, to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on them. The child's father who is an Army Major and his stepmother were convicted for torturing him. The thirteen year old had deposed against the parents revealing details of how he was regularly beaten by them since he was three. The child had...
03:07 PM, Aug 04, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will on Saturday announce the quantum of punishment to the parents who tortured a three-year-old kid. The child's father who is an Army Major and his stepmother were convicted for torturing him. The child had developed 17 fractures, multiple strokes, has cerebral palsy and is classified as 90 per cent disabled. Retired Army Officer Lalit Balhara and his wife Preeti have been convicted by a...
10:02 AM, Aug 04, 2012
Retired Army Officer Lalit Balhara and his wife Preeti have been convicted by a sessions court of baby battering with intention to kill. ...
11:57 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Bangalore: Close on the heels of a girl child who was made to drink her urine as a punishment in Shantiniketan, a dentist, who suspected his wifes fidelity, allegedly forced her to drink his urine. Unable to bear his torture, the 27-year-old woman has filed a case against him and her in-laws. Sapna, a native of Davanagere, was married to Akash Raj, a dentist at Subramanyanagar in Puttur of Udupi...
12:27 PM, Jul 14, 2012
Kolkata: A nine-year-old boy was allegedly tortured and branded on his face by a hot iron by his employer at Behrampore in Murshidabad. The boy was employed as a domestic help by a businessman. He was allegedly tortured by the man and his family members who used to beat him up. On Saturday the boy was mercilessly beaten up after he came late from a grocery store and then branded...
01:47 PM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: An officer of the Indian Army died after suffering a paralytic attack during a departmental enquiry at the Delhi Cantonment on Sunday. Subedar Major Rajendra Singh's family, that is in Jaipur, alleges that he was tortured by the senior officers questioning him. The family has filed a case of murder against the Army. They say that Subedar Major Singh had exposed some senior officers in an alleged corruption...
09:51 AM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: Union Law minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday suggested that all proceedings at police stations across the country should be videographed as the measure would discourage custodial torture. "I think in modern times and availability of modern technology...unfortunately even courts are not ready to record their proceedings...there should be videographing and recording of proceedings that take place in our police stations so that there is completely safe evidence available,"...
12:22 AM, Jun 27, 2012
Cuttack: A retired judicial magistrate and three others, including his wife and son were arrested on Wednesday for torturing his pregnant daughter-in-law and throwing her into a river with her hands and legs tied. The four - the retired judge, his wife, son and another person were arrested following a statement of the woman, who is fighting for her life in the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack, Cuttack Deputy...
11:15 PM, May 09, 2012
The plight of a 14-year-old Afghan girl caused international outrage when she was found tortured, allegedly at the hands of her in-laws. ...
09:49 AM, May 09, 2012
Indore: Taking cognisance of a complaint made by an accused in the Samjhauta Express blast case that he was unlawfully detained and subjected to torture, a local court in Depalpur town has issued a warrant directing the Ambala Jail Superintendent to produce him in the court on June 11 next. The accused Kamal Chouhan had alleged that he was kept in illegal custody from February 10-13 and subjected to torture....
02:24 AM, May 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Wednesday stayed the proceedings against suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a 1990 custodial torture case. Justice AS Dave, who stayed the investigation against Bhatt, also issued notices to the state government and complainant Vijaysinh Bhatti. The next hearing will be on June 22. The IPS officer approached the High Court through his lawyer IH Syed after a case was registered against him on the...
07:44 PM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: Slamming the doctor couple for trying to settle the case against them by offering Rs 75,000 to their minor maid, whom they had allegedly left locked-up and starving in their flat while vacationing in Bangkok, a Delhi court on Friday rejected the bail plea of the medico's wife. Duty Magistrate Arul Varma dismissed the bail plea of Dr Sanjay Verma's wife Sumita Verma. The couple had appeared before...
07:46 PM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: A doctor couple accused of torturing, starving and locking up their 13-year-old maid servant have been arrested. The doctor couple Dr Sanjay Verma and Dr Sumita Verma had locked up the maid in their house in New Delhi before they went on a vacation to Thailand. Police had lodged an FIR against them under the Juvenile Justice Act, Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation...
04:26 PM, Apr 04, 2012
A doctor couple residing in Dwarka in south west Delhi went on a vacation to Thailand, allegedly leaving their 13-year-old maid locked-up and starving in their flat. ...
11:40 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court of Tuesday rejected anticipatory bail plea of the doctor couple, who allegedly left their minor maid locked up and starving in their house while they vacationed in Thailand. Delhi police said that the couple are not in India right now. However, the lawyer informed the court that the couple was in India and willing to cooperate with the cops. Earlier, a look-out notice was issued...
02:40 PM, Apr 03, 2012
