Uttar Pradesh police have registered a case of gang rape against a BJP lawmaker and six others, including his sons and nephew, following a complaint from a widow who said she couldn’t take their bla...
A 22-year-old deaf and mute girl was allegedly gang-raped at Jankia in Khurda district, 50km from here, on Saturday evening. The victim was on Sunday shifted to Capital Hospital from Khurda district h...
A 17-year-old girl was raped by two men who beat up her fiancé in Sonari on Monday, it was revealed on Friday when police publicised the arrest of one of the accused.The incident bears uncanny simila...
Seemingly innocuous practices often have a nasty way of snowballing into serious — criminal — misdemeanour. This is what appeared to have happened a few days ago when it was revealed that the all-...
Damayanti Sen, the IPS officer who shot to fame during the investigation of the Park Street gang-rape case, is returning to Calcutta police after seven years.Sen, a 1996-batch IPS officer who is...
When a law needs reiteration by the highest court of the country, it is a revealing comment on that country’s society and institutions. Obviously, the law is not being obeyed. That is certainly the ...
A young woman from Howrah, Bengal, was allegedly gang-raped and brutalised by three youths, including her boyfriend, near Gandhi Ghat in Sakchi, the incident late on Wednesday exposing once more lax n...
The Delhi government on Monday recommended rejecting mercy petition of Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder case.Sources said that the Delhi governmen...
A high-ranking army officer’s 16-year-old daughter, out with a friend of the same age to click pictures of the setting sun from a hillock in Bariatu, was raped by two youths on Saturday, barely thr...
The NGO Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) on Saturday called on Telangana police and the state government to ensure an exhaustive, impartial and independent investigation into the police sho...