A Kerala court on Saturday sentenced a Catholic clergyman to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor, who gave birth two years ago, in a case that took several shocking turns. A criminal ...

NGO owner Brajesh Thakur and 18 others were on Monday convicted by a Delhi court for sexual and physical assault on several girls in a Muzaffarpur shelter home.Additional sessions judge Saurabh ...

None has been convicted for the alleged gang rape of Rajasthan social worker Bhanwari Devi in front of her husband in 1992 as punishment for stopping a child marriage in the family of a caste higher t...

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to set up within 60 days special courts in every district that has a minimum 100 pending cases relating to child rapes and sexual offences against chi...

A Delhi court on Friday framed charges against expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar for allegedly raping a minor in Unnao in 2017. The court has framed charges under Sections 120 b (criminal conspira...

A special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) court in Muzaffarpur on Saturday forwarded to the CBI a petition by an accused, who has alleged the involvement of Bihar chief minister Ni...

Every silver lining has a cloud. The fourth National Family Health Survey, conducted in the year 2015-16, confirms that the incidence of child marriage has shown a steady decline all over India, excep...

Expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar will remain in jail for his entire life for raping a woman in Unnao in 2017, a Delhi court said on Friday while sentencing him for life.District judge Dharmesh Sh...

The unrest erupting within the Central Bureau of Investigation is yet another reminder of everything that is wrong with our law enforcement infrastructure. Attempts to modernize criminal law have fail...

An accused in the Walayar rape and death case of two minor Dalit sisters was on Saturday thrashed by a group of people following an altercation, police said.M. Madhu, the third accused in the case, wh...