Yavatmal (Maha): A 50-year-old journalist of a local vernacular daily was arrested for his alleged attempt to rape a six-year-old girl here, police said on Monday. The accused, Pradeep Laxman Deshmukh, was caught on Sunday by a youth from an isolated spot near Arni state transport bus stand while he was trying to rape the girl studying in first standard. The journalist was handed over to police by the youth...
09:36 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: The mobile phone said to have belonged to the Delhi braveheart was recovered from the house of one of the accused in the case, a prosecution witness on Monday told a fast track court here. The witness, a Delhi Police sub inspector who was part of the police team that had accompanied accused Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta to their residences, also said a pair of bloodstained trousers...
08:52 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Indore: A woman professor of IIM-Indore, who accused a senior colleague of sexual harassment, has been sacked after an inquiry panel found her charge to be false and baseless. The lady professor, who is on a two-year contract and living in the official campus, has been told about the termination of her contract, a senior official said. However, IIM's Public Relation Officer Akhta Pervez chose not to mention about the...
06:35 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Melbourne: Australian prosecutors on Monday demanded life sentence for a 21-year-old man, who has pleaded guilty of raping and killing Indian student Tosha Thakkar in 2011 before stuffing her in a suitcase and dumping it in a canal. The Sydney based Supreme Court on Monday heard that accused, Daniel Stani-Reginald, who lived next door had been planning his "cold and calculated" crime well before he raped the 24-year-old Thakkar. Daniel...
05:59 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Bikaner: A driver of a school bus was arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl here, police said on Monday. The girl, a class X student of a private school here has charged her school bus driver with raping her and lodged an FIR against him with Khajuwala police station on Sunday night. The police have arrested the accused, identified as Rajesh Kumar (35), CO Babu Lal said on Monday....
04:29 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Jaipur: The warden of an educational institute for visually challenged children was arrested on Sunday for seeking sexual favours from the 15-year-old daughter of a sanitation worker in Jaipur, police said. An investigation is now on to confirm whether visually challenged girl inmates of the institute's hostel were also harassed by the named warden. Police said that the 35-year-old accused, Prashant Kumar, was the warden of Rajasthan Netraheen Kalyan Sansthan...
05:45 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: The national capital on Sunday witnessed a rare event as artists and civil society members came together to protest against rising insidents of rapes and to register opposition to death penalty through poetry, discussion and songs. Those present at the event 'Violence no more' included personalities like Shabana Azmi, Usha Uthup, Syeda Hameed and Binayak Sen. The participants pitched for a case against the death penalty and paid...
05:11 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: A vigilance inquiry by Delhi Police has found fault with the SHO of Gandhinagar police station in Delhi for alleged lapses in investigation into the rape of a five-year-old girl. Sources said the SHO has been found prima facie guilty of dereliction of duty. The report has been submitted to Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. The family had alleged that police did not pursue the complaint vigorously after the girl's...
01:45 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Belgaum: The Belgaum Police on Sunday arrested the fiance of the girl whose mutilated body was found on a road in the district on Saturday. According to the police, the man allegedly raped his 20-year-old fiancee and killed her. The police, for the time being, however, have ruled out that the girl was gangraped. The police said that the girl had been postponing their marriage and refusing his advances and...
11:16 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: A seven-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a factory worker in west Delhi, police said on Sunday. The incident was reported from Moti Nagar last week and accused Avadh, who is known to the victim, was apprehended. The girl was alone at her house when the incident took place, they said. Raj works in a fan manufacturing factory. ...
07:08 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Berhampore: A man and his aide were arrested on Sunday for allegedly killing his 10-year-old daughter when she protested his attempts to sell her at Jalangi in Murshidabad district. "Bablu Ghosh and his aide were arrested for strangulating his daughter Rinki Ghosh. Rinki was a student of class-III. Local villagers informed the police on Sunday morning after finding the body on the side of a pond at Chak Chaitanghoshpara village,"...
06:10 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: Rape cases will come down if people shun non-vegetarian food and alcohol, activist Swami Agnivesh said on Sunday. "We cannot stop a crime like rape by policing only.... I think rapes will come down significantly if people stop eating non-vegetarian. There has been lot of research on this.... Rapes will come down significantly if alcohol consumption is not there," he told reporters in New Delhi. He said a...
05:01 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: India's attractiveness among the expat professionals as a potential workplace has taken a major hit in the wake of recent cases of rape incidents and attacks on foreigners, a survey says. The survey, conducted among 2,200 expat professionals, found that 72 per cent of the respondents who were keen to work in India in the first half of 2012 are now shifting their attention to countries like Philippines,...
04:30 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Belgaum: Mutilated body of a 20-year-old college student was found in Belgaum district of Karnataka on Sunday. The woman was allegedly gangraped and murdered. Her body was found on a road in Belgaum district on Saturday. The woman's bag, footwear and college identity card were also recovered from the spot. The unidentified assailants allegedly inflicted injuries on her face with sharp objects. The woman's caste name was also etched on...
03:39 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Cuttack: The Odisha government is mulling to move the High Court challenging the January 23 decision of the State Administrative Tribunal in which it had set aside the government's dismissal order of a disgraced police inspector. Amulya Kumar Champatiray, in his capacity as inspector in-charge of Pipili police station in November 2011, had refused to register an FIR and conduct probe into a rape and attempt to murder incident of...
02:36 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: The father of the Delhi minor rape survivor was offered a bribe of Rs 2000 by the Station House Officer (SHO) of Gandhinagar Police Station, source said on Sunday. The Joint Commissioner of Police (Vigilance) submitted report on the allegations of bribe by the police in the case. Sources added the victim's family has identified the SHO of the police station. The family had alleged they were offered...
12:31 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Jaipur: A woman was allegedly poisoned to death by her husband and in-laws in the Mahaveer Nagar area in Jaipur over demands for dowry, police said on Saturday. Sunita Ajmer died on Friday at the Sawai Man Singh hospital following which her father registered an FIR at the Bajaj Nagar police station, they said. Her father has alleged that she was given poison by her husband Rakesh, mother-in-law Lalita, father-in-law...
12:17 AM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: A 25-year-old domestic help was allegedly gangraped by three men in south-east Delhi, the police said on Saturday. The incident took place in New Friends Colony on Friday and it came to light when the victim, a mother of two, approached the police. She told police that three men raped her in her servant quarters on Friday. After a medical examination confirmed rape, the three accused - Kamal,...
11:28 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Gurgaon: Two women have alleged that three men raped them in a car after giving them a lift, police said on Saturday. The women, who are 22 and 45, said in their complaint to police that they had taken a lift from Rajiv Chowk in Gurgaon to go to Sohna. However, instead of heading towards Sohna, the three men, all in their 40s, turned towards Taudu and raped them on...
09:47 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Tripura: In yet another shocking incident of crime against children, a six-year old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Tripura, triggering violent protests by the locals. The incident happened on Thursday evening at Chelagang in Gomati district of Tripura. The accused has been arrested. The police said that the accused Sanjit Saha, confessed that he raped the girl before strangling her to death. He said he dumped the body...
07:34 PM, Apr 27, 2013
