Jajpur: A man who was arrested on charges of raping a married woman and out on bail recently, allegedly killed the survivor's mother-in-law in Odisha's Jajpur district, police said on Wednesday.
The rape accused, Nilu Swain, killed the 50-year-old woman, who was working as an Anganwadi assistant at Sanasuara village in the district, in an act of revenge, they said.
According to police, Swain had raped the woman's daughter-in-law two years ago. He was arrested and then sent to jail. The accused was pressurising the survivor's family to withdraw the case and compromise the incident through middlemen which was being vehemently opposed by the woman.
Swain, who was out on bail last week, came to the rape survivor's house on Sunday and threatened her family to withdraw the case but the woman's mother-in-law rejected the proposal, which enraged the accused. ...
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03:06 AM, Jun 20, 2013
Ghaziabad: A 2-year-old boy was beaten to death while his pregnant mother and labourer father were brutally beaten up by a brick kiln owner in Rajpur village, police said on Wednesday. The labourer Rampravesh and his pregnant wife Meera, residents of Peepli village, were brutally beaten up on Tuesday night, which led to the victim suffering a miscarriage, SP Jagdish Sharma said. The woman and her minor child were rushed...
02:26 AM, Jun 20, 2013
New Delhi: A 20-year-old newly married woman was gangraped by four men in New Delhi, police said on Wednesday. Two of the accused have been arrested. The incident happened at Gokalpuri area in east Delhi on Saturday. "The victim, a native of Bihar came to Delhi with her husband a few days ago. Two men, Digambar and Ravi assured her husband that they will get him employed in a factory,"...
12:47 AM, Jun 20, 2013
Melbourne: An 11-year-old boy in New Zealand has become a father after conceiving a child with the 36-year-old mother of a school friend. The woman coerced the boy, from Auckland, into repeated sexual encounters over a period of time before becoming pregnant, the New Zealand Herald newspaper reported. The woman gave the boy beer to drink and then later took part in a sexual encounter with him, the report said....
11:34 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Madura Chakraborty was part of a women's group which went to submit a memorandum to Mamata Banerjee to demand better protection for women in West Bengal and suitable prosecution of perpetrators of sexual violence in view of the spurt in crimes against women in the state. Instead, the women, some of them senior citizens, were manhandled by Kolkata Police and arrested. Mamata has already labelled those criticising her government for...
05:48 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Kolkata: Around 60 state government women employees on Tuesday went on a protest march along the main corridors of the Writers' Buildings, the state secretariat, against spurt in sexual violence and atrocities against women across West Bengal. Officials sources said the protesters, all pro-left women employees, held placards decrying the state government's "apathy" to sternly deal with the offenders. The protesters paraded the corridors except the VVIP and protected areas...
04:46 PM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: A sex racket was busted in Delhi after two Uzbek women who were held hostage for five months in a house and were repeatedly sexually abused by customers, escaped, police on Tuesday said. A woman pimp has been arrested. The two women from Uzbekistan managed to flee from the clutches of the sex racket on Sunday and reached Safdarjung Hospital, where they sought help of hospital authorities to...
05:05 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Jaipur: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped in Rajasthan's Alwar town and the video of the crime then uploaded on a social networking website, police said on Tuesday. According to police, the victim's father registered a first information report (FIR) Tuesday with a police station at Alwar, some 150 km from Jaipur. "The man says that a youth befriended his daughter on Facebook. He raped her a few months ago...
04:42 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Kolkata: A 17-year-old girl was on Tuesday allegedly molested by her coaching center teacher in Ashok Nagar area of north 24 Parganas district in West Bengal. According to the reports, the teacher asked the girl to stay back as she needed special attention and allegedly molested her. After the incident, aggravated locals ransacked the coaching centre. The accused has been arrested. ...
11:30 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Washington: US military leaders are ready to begin tearing down the remaining walls that have prevented women from holding thousands of combat and special operations jobs near the front lines. Under details of the plans obtained by The Associated Press, women could start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later. The military services have mapped out a schedule that also will include reviewing and...
10:20 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Kolkata: Angry netizens on Tuesday lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and sternly told her to "shut up and do some work", a day after she lost her cool and branded as "CPI-M people" anti-rape protestors as also rapists of a college girl. Facebook users and Twitterati assailed the Trinamool Congress supremo for asking a resident of Kamduni village in North 24 Parganas district to "shut up"...
07:23 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A tribal woman travelling in an air-conditioned luxury bus was allegedly raped by helper of the vehicle while other passengers were fast asleep. The incident took place on Sunday night when the 25-year-old survivor was travelling in a private bus running from Mayurbhanj to Bhubaneswar. "The accused bus helper has been arrested and forwarded to the court," said deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Pravin Kumar adding that the matter...
04:55 PM, Jun 18, 2013
On June 13, thirteen women activists were arrested in Kolkata for protesting against violence against women near the residence of the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. This is a first-person account of the day's events by one of them. "Women and girls in our state are facing terrible violence and many have been killed but that does not galvanise the police and administration of West Bengal into action. Activists...
12:06 PM, Jun 18, 2013
One day a female driver will be seen lining up on the Grand Prix grid again, feels McLaren driver Jenson Button. There has not been a female driver to appear on the grid since 1975, but Button has spoken out about how women should also be given more opportunities in motor sports at an early age. "It is possible. The big issue is that I don't think women are given...
12:06 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A 27-year-old tribal girl was allegedly raped in a moving bus early on Monday morning. The police have arrested one person, who is believed to be the driver's helper. According to the police, there were about five to six other passengers on board the bus. All the passengers are believed to have been sleeping when the incident occurred. The girl was allegedly dumped at the Cuttack bus stand later....
09:56 AM, Jun 18, 2013
A woman was on Monday night pushed out of a bus by the conductor following a dispute over fare in Dankaur area, police said. Three women boarded the private bus from Dankaur railway station this evening. They gave one hundred rupee to the conductor to get the tickets. The conductor charged them more than the actual fare and this led to an altercation between them, police said. The bus driver...
04:26 AM, Jun 18, 2013
Hyderabad: A software engineer from Bangalore was arrested by Andhra Pradesh police on the charge of sending emails containing obscene photos of his wife who had sought divorce for allegedly hiding his first marriage. "Nanda Kumar Jai was arrested from his residence in Bangalore on June 14 by the Cyber Crime police of Andhra Pradesh CID after his role was established for sending objectionable photos of his current wife to...
10:50 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Kolkata: Days after the brutal gangrape and murder of a 20-year-old girl in West Bengal's Barasat district, a group of women protestors on Monday shouted anti-government slogans and forced Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to leave the grieving family's house within five minutes of her arrival there. Sources say, she felt it was a deliberate ploy to insult her. The deceased girl's family had earlier refused any kind of help from...
03:08 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Kolkata: Kolkata's Park Street rape survivor is not just picking up the pieces of her own life, but she is also giving a new meaning to the lives of many women suffering from injustice. She has now found her new calling at a women's support helpline. The 38-year-old is helping other victims of violence survive pain that she knows only too well. Struggling to make ends meet, this single mother...
12:26 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Islamabad: A woman Lashkar-e-Jhangvi suicide bomber carried out the devastating attack on a university bus carrying women and her male accomplice struck a hospital in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said, as the death toll on Sunday rose to 26 in the multiple strikes. The banned sectarian outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) has claimed responsibility for Saturday's attacks on the bus and at the Bolan Medical Complex, saying they were carried...
06:56 PM, Jun 16, 2013
