New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday sentenced a man to jail for eight years for repeatedly raping his 17-year-old daughter and threatening her not to disclose the incident to anyone. Pronouncing the sentence, Additional Sessions Judge TR Naval said the one who was supposed to protect his daughter, had repeatedly committed the crime when her mother, who later died, was admitted in a hospital. The court in the order...
05:21 AM, May 18, 2013
Kannur: A Sessions Court in Kannur on Friday ordered DNA test on Bitti Mohanty to obtain scientific proof for establishing his identity following his arrest in March this year after being on the run for several years. Bitti remained absconding by jumping bail following his conviction for raping of a German woman at Alwar in Jaipur. Additional Sessions Judge KV Jayakumar issued the order on Friday on Kerala Police's plea...
11:41 PM, May 17, 2013
Greater Noida: A newly-married woman was burnt to death allegedly by her in-laws in Jarch area in Greater Noida. Five persons, including her husband, have been booked, police said, adding that they are absconding. According to the complaint filed by father of the twenty-year-old Renu, she got married to one Dushyant in April 2012. Since her marriage, she was constantly being harassed by her husband and in-laws. Her father Deshraj...
10:40 PM, May 17, 2013
Tehran: A member of Iran's constitutional watchdog group insists that women cannot be presidential candidates, a report said Thursday, effectively killing the largely symbolic bids by about 30 women seeking to run in the June 14 election. Even before the comments by Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, chances for a woman candidate in Iran's presidential election were considered nearly impossible. Women also have registered as potential candidates in past presidential elections, but...
08:13 PM, May 17, 2013
Indore: A man, who put a 'chastity lock' on his wife in a cruel, self-devised way, was awarded 10 years' rigorous sentence by the court in Indore on Friday even though the survivor had retracted her statement during the trial. Additional Sessions Judge Avnindra Kumar Singh also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on the accused Sohanlal (38), a mechanic by profession, under sections 326 (causing grievous hurt) and section...
07:57 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: A devastated mother of the Delhi braveheart on Friday made fervent pleas for justice for her daughter before a Special court trying four men accused in the case. The lawyer for one of the accused did not cross-examine her saying she is already in deep pain. The mother of the 23-year-old paramedical student, who was gangraped and assaulted in a moving bus, deposed before the court of Additional...
07:00 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Promiscuous character of a woman is irrelevant in rape cases and a rapist cannot take it as ground of defence for his henious act, the Supreme Court has ruled saying even a female of easy virtue has a right to life. Holding that rape is not only an offence against a woman, but a crime against the entire society, the apex court said that courts should deal with...
05:51 PM, May 17, 2013
Lalitpur: A shocking instance of horror against women has surfaced from Lalitpur in Uttar Pradesh. Five women working as human rights activists were allegedly physically and verbally assaulted when they had gathered to inaugurate an adult literacy centre for Dalit women in the village. The man who attacked them also abused them using casteist slurs. Three of the survivors have sustained serious head and body injuries. An FIR and medical...
02:20 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: A man has been jailed for eight years by a Delhi court for repeatedly raping his 17-year-old daughter and threatening her not to disclose the incident to anyone. Additional Sessions Judge TR Naval sentenced Northeast Delhi resident, saying the convict, who was supposed to protect his daughter, had repeatedly committed the crime when her mother, who later on died, was admitted in a hospital. "Keeping in view the...
01:11 PM, May 17, 2013
Melbourne: A 21-year-old Australian man was on Friday sentenced to 45 years in jail with a minimum non-parole period of 30 years for the "planned and premeditated" rape and murder of Indian student Tosha Thakkar, who he strangled to death, stuffed into a suitcase and dumped in a canal. New South Wales Supreme Court Judge Derek Price sentenced Daniel Stani-Reginald to a maximum of 45 years in jail with a...
10:12 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi government's 181 helpline for women in distress, which was launched in the wake of the December 16 gangrape, has received over two lakh calls in the last four-and-half months. Officials said most of the calls received by the round-the-clock help line were related to stalking, eve-teasing, obscene calls and facing sexual abuse and domestic harassment. The helpline was launched on December 31, 2012 to help women...
02:35 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The mother of the Delhi braveheart will appear before the fast track court on Friday to depose as a prosecution witness. Meanwhile, the Tihar Jail Superintendent and medical officer also submitted their reports to Additional Session Judge Yogesh Khanna on the health condition of accused Vinay Sharma, who was admitted to the hospital following high fever. The accused is now admitted to Lok Nayak Hospital and receiving medical...
11:05 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: The Tihar jail authorities on Thursday told a special court here that one of the accused in the December 16 gangrape case is being given proper medical care in the hospital where he is admitted and the doctors there are not on strike. "It has been confirmed from the guard, who is escorting guarding the accused Vinay Sharma at LNJP Hospital that the doctors of the hospital are...
09:52 PM, May 16, 2013
Seattle: A 10-year-old Washington state boy was sentenced on Wednesday to up to five-and-a-half year in a juvenile detention facility for his role in a foiled plot to rape and kill a girl at his school and harm other children. The boy was charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, juvenile firearm possession and witness tampering in connection with a plot in February at an elementary school in Colville, Washington,...
11:23 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Another shameful incident of rape has been reported from the national capital. A 21-year-old was allegedly raped by the Chief Medical Officer of Jag Pravesh Chandra Hospital in Seelampur. The survivor claimed she was asked to undergo an ultrasound prior to which she was given a drink laced with sedatives. The police said that her medical test confirmed rape and the doctor has been taken into custody. "The...
08:53 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: The Indian Navy has been hit by fresh charges of wife swapping. CNN-IBN spoke to the wife of a naval officer, who last month accused her husband of wife swapping. She said that the practice is common in the Navy. Defence Minister AK Antony has ordered an inquiry into the matter. "It's very common in the Indian Navy. The thing is that everybody doesn't dare to file a...
08:29 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: A 71-year-old tantric was arrested in New Delhi for raping a 10-year-old girl on the pretext of healing her, police said Wednesday. The girl, who had a migraine, had been advised by a neighbour to seek the tantric's help. Her mother took her to Kanu Lal, a tantric in Govindpuri area in south Delhi on Tuesday evening. Lal asked her mother to leave the room as he would...
04:26 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: An accused in December 16 gangrape case has been vomiting blood as his "food was being poisoned" over several weeks in Tihar Jail, his lawyer told a fast-track court on Wednesday, adding that he was critically ill. Additional Sessions Judge directed Tihar Jail authorities to ensure that proper medical care is given to him. The accused, Vinay Sharma, was admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, where he was...
12:46 AM, May 16, 2013
Jaipur: A 24-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by unidentified persons at her home in Kotdi area in Bhilwara district, police said on Wednesday. The woman was at her home with her children while her husband was away for some work when few persons came on a bike and gangraped her on Tuesday, they said. The case is being investigated, they added. ...
12:26 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: A 51-year-old Chief Medical Officer of a government hospital in New Delhi was arrested on charges of raping a 21-year-old patient after luring her into a clinic on the pretext of undergoing ultrasound scanning, police said on Wednesday. Narendra Singh, CMO of Jag Pravesh Chandra Hospital, advised the patient to undergo an ultrasound examination and took her to a clinic near the hospital on Tuesday, police said. He...
11:52 PM, May 15, 2013
