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Durgapur, Oct 22 (UNI) A city court, hearing the October 10 alleged gang-rape case of a 23-year-old MBBS student from Odisha, today directed the Test Identification (TI) parade of the six accused, including the classmate, at the Phooljhore jail on October 24, court sources said. The court order came about after advocate Partha Ghosh, appearing for the survivor, prayed for the TI parade of the accused persons as soon as possible, which would be done in the Fuljhore Correctional Home where all th ...Read More >
Three men, Karthik, Glen, and Suyoga, were arrested for gang rape and dacoity in Bengaluru. Five men allegedly broke into a woman's flat, assaulted her, and stole cash and phones. The police are searching for the two remaining suspects. In a shocking incident of crime, three men have been arrested following a late-night invasion near Madanayakanahalli that resulted in a horrific gang rape and dacoity. The crime was perpetrated by a gang of five men who allegedly posed as police informants to ga ...Read More >
Kolkata, Oct 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Even after six days of interrogation, the police duirng their investigation have found discrepancies in the statements of the Durgapur gang-rape victim's male friend and five arrested youths from the local village. The police are trying to find some missing links in this gang-rape case, said officials. Police investigation revealed that the medical student was in a relationship with her classmate cum male friend. They had gone out on that fateful night outside ...Read More >
"The survivor's condition remains critical. She is in the ICU. CCTV footage from the area is being examined," police commissioner S. Dev Datt Singh said. Also read: 20-year-old college student gang-raped on Odisha beach; 7 detained: Police According to the police, the girl was found lying unconscious with multiple injuries on the roadside near the Ashoknagar area of Bhubaneswar. The locals initially mistook her to be specially abled. Later, a group of autorickshaw drivers noticed her and shift ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi Police have questioned nearly 100 people, among them 67 guards on the South Asian University (SAU) campus, where an 18-year-old female student has alleged that four men tried to gangrape her. Police have also spoken to the girl to record the exact sequence of events. The student has alleged that one of her attackers was a campus guard.Investigators have matched the locations of the guards at the time of the alleged attack. Staff and students too were questioned. The cops have fo ...Read More >
He also appealed to Banerjee to help his daughter, who is from Odisha, get justice. Kolkata: Two days after claiming that West Bengal is under "Aurangzeb's rule", the father of the Durgapur gang rape victim on Wednesday described Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a "mother-like figure" and urged her to forgive him if he had said anything wrong against her. He also appealed to Banerjee to help his daughter, who is from Odisha, get justice. "Mamata Banerjee is like a mother-like figure to me. ...Read More >
The arrested persons would be taken to the crime spot in the jungle adjacent to Paranaganj Kali Bari cremation ground, which is close to the gates of the private medical college in Durgapur. West Bengal Police may take the five accused arrested in connection with the gang rape of a medical student in Durgapur to the crime spot on Tuesday for reconstruction of the crime, a senior officer said. The arrested persons would be taken to the crime spot in the jungle adjacent to Paranaganj Kali Bari c ...Read More >
Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: The West Bengal police will seek court approval to conduct a Test Identification (TI) parade to allow the second-year medical student from Odisha, who was allegedly gangraped on October 10 at Durgapur in Paschim Bardhaman district, to identify the arrested suspects as the perpetrators of the crime. Six individuals, including the survivors's male friend who accompanied her off-campus for dinner that night, have been arrested. The classmate, Wasif Ali, is the prime accused in ...Read More >
KOLKATA: Amid outrage over the alleged gang rape of a medical student in Durgapur, governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday expressed deep concern over the "shocking" incident, saying he lacked confidence to say West Bengal is safe, and called for a "second renaissance" to make the state secure for women.Bose, who travelled to the industrial town in Paschim Bardhaman district and met the survivor's family, said the incident has "shaken the public conscience", adding "stern action" must be taken to pre ...Read More >
Speaking to ANI, the party leader stated that the Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Manjhi-led government had been "shedding crocodile tears over the rape victim", further calling it "pure politics." Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Lekhasri Samantsinghar on Wednesday strongly condemned the Durgapur gangrape case and launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alleging that the party was indulging in "rape tourism" in Odisha and West Bengal for political mileage. Speaking to AN ...Read More >
The police said they had also found that the survivor was sexually assaulted by one person. ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * The woman from Odisha, a second-year MBBS student, had stepped out with the friend on the night of the crime * In his police complaint, the survivor's father had named the friend * The man was taken to the scene of the crime and interrogated several times before he was arrested Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode T ...Read More >
West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Wednesday put up a detailed report before President Droupadi Murmu and the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) regarding the alleged gangrape of a Dalit medical student in West Burdwan district's Durgapur town. A Raj Bhavan source corroborated that the submission by the Governor consists of observations made during his Durgapur visit last week, as well as information from his meetings with the victim's family. The precise contents of the top-level repor ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], October 16 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has named Jay Dholakia as its candidate for the Nuapada Assembly by-election in Odisha on Wednesday. In addition to Nuapada, the Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party has approved several candidates for the 2025 Assembly by-elections in various states. Agha Syed Mohsin and Sushri Devyani Rana have been selected as candidates for the Budgam and Nagrota by-elections, respectively, in Jammu and Kash ...Read More >
West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose has submitted a report on the gang rape of a medical student in Durgapur to President Droupadi Murmu and the Union Home Ministry, a Raj Bhavan official said on Wednesday (October 15, 2025). In the report, Mr. Bose has given a detailed account of his findings in the case and also about his interactions with the survivor and her parents who hail from Odisha, he said. Durgapur gang rape case: police reconstruct crime scene; male friend arrested "A report has ...Read More >
The Durgapur rape case has witnessed multiple twists and turns, all of which, by Tuesday night, led to the arrest of the medical student's classmate, who was with her on the night of the crime. A fresh perspective was brought in by the CCTV footage from the campus, which showed the student and her friend walking back to the college. The friend's arrest came shortly after Asansol-Durgapur police commissioner Sunil Kumar Choudhary ruled out gang-rape and said he was not above suspicion. "Investi ...Read More >
BENGALURU: A day after Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw highlighted Bengaluru's "creaking" infrastructure, Karnataka's deputy CM D K Shivakumar Wednesday accused her of "betrayal" and of tarnishing the very state and country that helped her succeed as an entrepreneur.However, people sprang to her defence, accusing the government of displaying hostility towards those who speak up, and of refusing to accept constructive criticism.On her part, Shaw on Wednesday blamed previous governments' inaction ...Read More >
Durgapur: Police slapped gang-rape, snatching and extortion charges Wednesday on the arrested classmate of the second-year MBBS student who was sexually assaulted outside her campus in Bengal's Durgapur last Friday night.The suspect, the sixth to be arrested in the case, was remanded in police custody for a week after going unrepresented in court as no lawyer was willing to take up his case.Assistant public prosecutor Siddhartha Basu said that besides the survivor's recorded statement, there was ...Read More >
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made a shocking statement on Sunday as she advised colleges not to allow girls to go outside at night after the alleged gangrape of a medical student in Durgapur. "I'm shocked to see the incident, but private medical colleges also should take care of their students, and especially girls. The girls should not be allowed to go outside (college) at night. They have to protect themselves also. There is a forest area. Police are searching all the people," M ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Commission for Women (OSCW) on Sunday said that it will send a team to Durgapur in West Bengal to inquire into the health and safety of the 23-year-old Odia medical student who was allegedly gangraped near her private medical college on Friday evening even as the incident sparked a bitter political confrontation between both the states. Meanwhile, the survivor's father, who hails from Jaleswar in Odisha's Balasore district, said he plans to bring his daughter back ...Read More >
A day after a 16-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped by five men in Lucknow's Banthra area, police have arrested two accused, while three others are still absconding. "Two accused have been arrested so far. Efforts are underway to trace the others involved in the incident," DCP (South Zone) Nipun Agarwal said on Sunday. According to police, one of the arrested men, Lalit Kashyap, sustained a leg injury during a brief encounter late Saturday night. Another accused, Miraj, was arrested ...Read More >
Kolkata/Balasore: Two more persons were arrested by police in connection with the alleged gang rape of a private medical college student at Durgapur in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district, a police officer said Monday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate, Abhisekh Gupta, told PTI, "Two more arrests have been made. With these, all five accused have been taken into custody based on the complaint filed." The 23-year-old woman, hailing from Jales ...Read More >
Kolkata, Oct 13 (PTI) Two more persons were arrested by police in connection with the alleged gang rape of a private medical college student at Durgapur in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district, a police officer said on Monday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate, Abhisekh Gupta, told PTI, "Two more arrests have been made. With these, all five accused have been taken into custody based on the complaint filed." The 23-year-old woman, hailing from ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Amid outrage over chief minister Mamata Banerjee's 'girls should not go out at night' remarks, the West Bengal police have apprehended the remaining two accused in the alleged rape of a second-year medical student from Odisha in Durgapur, taking the total number of arrests in the case to five on Monday. A temporary worker at Durgapur Municipal Corporation, Sheikh Nasiruddin, was nabbed last night, while Sheikh Safiqul, a local resident, was caught hiding at a relative's house in th ...Read More >
Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: A student from Odisha, studying at a private medical college in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district, was raped allegedly by some men on Friday, October 10. The incident occurred outside the private medical college campus in Durgapur when the second-year student went out with a friend to fetch some food, a police officer said. The survivor, from Jaleswar in Odisha, is undergoing treatment at the college hospital and gave her statement to the police, an officer said. A ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: India on Friday rejected Bangladesh's interim government's allegations linking New Delhi to recent violence in Khagrachhari district, calling the claims "false and baseless" and accusing Dhaka of shifting blame for its law-and-order lapses. Responding to comments by Bangladesh's Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said: "We categorically reject these false and baseless allegations. The interim government o ...Read More >
New Delhi: India on Friday, October 3, strongly rejected Bangladesh's interim government's claims that New Delhi had a role in inciting the recent violence in Khagrachhari district of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, describing the allegations as "false and baseless". Responding to questions on comments made by Bangladesh home affairs adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, "We categorically reject these false and baseless allegations. The int ...Read More >
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh mining minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati was injured in an attack inside Lucknow district jail hospital, where he is undergoing treatment, on Tuesday evening. Jail authorities confirmed that Prajapati suffered injury and received three stitches on his head. He was shifted to KGMU later in the night. His condition is said to be stable.According to jail superintendent RK Jaiswal, Prajapati sought water from an undertrial, Vishwas, who was assigned cleaning duty at the ...Read More >
The 19-year-old was travelling in a truck along with two men and her sister on Bypass Road in Tamil Nadu when constables Sunder and Suresh Raj, attached to the District East Police Station in Tiruvannamalai, stopped the vehicle for a routine inspection. Two police officers attached to the District East Police Station in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, have been arrested for allegedly raping a 19-year-old girl during a vehicle check near Endal village, The Times of India reported. According to the ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], October 1 (ANI): The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025 opener between India and Sri Lanka set a new milestone in women's cricket, as Guwahati's Barsapara Cricket Stadium recorded more than 20,000 fans in the stadium at any Women's Cricket World Cup event. The game drew 22,843 fans at the ACA Stadium, a record for the most attended group stage fixture at any Women's World Cup. The previous record of 15,935 was set during the India-Pakistan ICC Women's T20 World Cup Gro ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: At least two women were reportedly raped every day in Telangana in 2023, according to NCRB data. A total of 817 rape cases were registered in the state last year, with offenders known to the victims in 815 instances. Among these, 221 cases involved repeated rape of the same woman, five cases involved women with mental or physical disabilities, and eight were gang rapes. Of the known offenders, 557 were friends, online acquaintances, live-in partners under the pretext of marriage, or ...Read More >
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