Parents of a child who is a victim of sexual offence cannot enter into a “compromise” with the accused, Punjab and Haryana High Court has held. Parents cannot be allowed to compromise a c...

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Lohardaga police remanded a 19-year-old to judicial custody as he allegedly raped his own sisters and molested his mother in Azad Basti locality under Sadar thana of Lohardaga town in Jharkhand on Tue...

Thane police have arrested a 27-year-old man from West Bengal for allegedly raping a teenage girl after abducting her two years ago from here in Maharashtra, an official said on Wednesday. The accuse...

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The state health department has directed all hospitals to ensure that the names of minors allegedly subjected to crime under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act are not recorded during...

A law supposed to give justice to wronged children has been diluted in a way that will further impair chances of redress, alleged rights activists.  The amendments to the Juvenile Justice (Care ...

A park has opened in New Town’s Action Area II that offers swings and slides for children, fields and multi-gym equipment for youths and walkways for the elderly. Named Activity Park, the plot ...

A group of children was playing in a field in Herat when two bombs went off. In a separate incident in southern Afghanistan, at least five children were killed when they found an unexploded shell. Se...