The state law department should settle its disputes regarding appointment of judges for subordinate courts with the high court administration, Calcutta High Court said on Tuesday.“Filling up vacant ...

Not just women, but children too, suffer cruel neglect in India. Perhaps it is this darkness implicit in society’s value system that is most shocking. The Supreme Court took suo motu notice of the â...

A writ petition filed by the father of a four-year-old who had been sexually assaulted in school has led to a high court-appointed committee framing a comprehensive set of guidelines to deal with chil...

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by a gang in Meghalaya’s West Jaiñtia Hills, and six out of seven accused, including two juveniles, have been arrested so far.West Jaiñtia Hills...

Six underage girls were gang-raped while they were returning after sunset from a Makar Sankranti fair on Wednesday night in Khunti district around 30km south of the state capital, villagers have alleg...

The Bharat Sevashram Sangha monk accused of outraging the modesty of a 15-year-old girl on Wednesday evening was arrested on Friday and forwarded to judicial custody.The 54-year-old has been charged w...

 The Union women and child development ministry has decided to define child pornography in the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill that the government plans to introduce ...

The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved amendments to the Pocso Act, including the death penalty for aggravated sexual assault on children and providing stringent other punishments for other crimes ag...

President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said there should be no scope of mercy for those sentenced to death for sexual abuse of children under the Pocso Act, throwing the weight of his office behind the c...

A 15-year-old girl allegedly forced into prostitution was rescued from a house near Thakurpukur on Tuesday afternoon.Two women who were allegedly running a trafficking racket from the single-storey ho...