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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 CV 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. In the report, Bose has given a detailed account of his findings in the case and also about his interactions with the survivor and her parents, he said. "A report has been submitted to President Droupadi Murmu in connection with the governor's findings in the Durgapur case. A copy of the re ...Read More >
A private engineering college student in Kolkata was allegedly raped by her classmate. The victim reported that she was drugged and then assaulted in her rented flat. The accused, who had been in hiding, was arrested and sent to police custody. A second-year student of a private engineering college in Kolkata was allegedly raped by her classmate, and the accused was arrested from the Anandapur area in the southern part of the city, police said. The woman, who came to West Bengal to study, file ...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 >
Lucknow: Accusing the BJP govt of indulging in hate politics, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said rampant caste-based postings in state have crippled the law and machinery to the extent that even 'fake encounters' have failed to reign in the criminals."People were being deprived of justice in the state as the BJP's focus was only on posting officers of select caste at high positions. The BJP's focus is not on governance, so there is no governance happening. It was time for t ...Read More >
Shimla, Oct 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a shocking incident, the son of former BJP MP from Shimla, Virender Kashyap, has been booked for allegedly raping a woman on the pretext of marrying her in Himachal Pradesh's Solan, the police said on Tuesday. The accused, Brijeshwar Kashyap, is a dentist by profession. Superintendent of Police Gaurav Singh told the media that a case under Sections 69 (sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means, etc.) and 351 (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya ...Read More >
Hyderabad: An unidentified man allegedly raped and robbed at knifepoint a 25-year-old woman passenger from Andhra Pradesh aboard the ladies' compartment of Santragachi Special Express (07222) on Oct 13.The woman was travelling from her native place in AP's Rajahmundry to Cherlapally in Hyderabad, where she was employed as a domestic help. The crime occurred when the train was moving between Guntur and Pedakurapadu stations -- six stations from where the woman had boarded the train around 2pm, po ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The Biju Mahila Janata Dal on Wednesday came down heavily on Chief Minister Mohan Majhi for releasing the video of his conversation with the Odia medical student, who was allegedly gangraped in West Bengal's Durgapur on October 10. Senior leaders of the women wing of the BJD argued that releasing the survivor's identity and making her recorded conversation public violates the Supreme Court guidelines. Addressing a presser at Shankha Bhavan, senior general secretary Tukuni Sahu sai ...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 >
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 >
A 14-month-old child was allegedly raped and murdered in Tripura's Panisagar area. The accused, a daily wager, took the baby from her mother on an outing and later buried her body in a paddy field. Police have arrested the accused from Assam, and an investigation is ongoing. Agartala: A 14-month-old child was allegedly raped and murdered in North Tripura's Panisagar area, police said on Sunday.The accused, a daily wager, has been arrested from Nilambazar in Assam, they said.The alleged rape too ...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 >
Meerut: A criminal having cases against him, including rape, loot and attempt to murder, was killed in an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh police in Meerut district, officials said on Monday. According to the police, the accused, Shehzad alias Nikki, was shot dead in the encounter that took place in the Sarurpur police station limits early in the morning. Meerut Senior Superintendent of Police, Vipin Tada, told ANI, "In Sarurpur PS limits, an encounter between Police and a criminal broke out t ...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, Oct 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside the conviction and death sentence of a man who was found guilty by the trial court and the Madras High Court for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in 2017. A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Vikram Nath, held that the trial was "conducted in a lopsided manner and without due deference to the principles of fair trial", adding that both the trial court and the Madras High Court glossed over ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 7 (ANI): Shahana Goswami-starrer 'Santosh' is all set to kickstart its digital journey. The film, which was earlier screened at Cannes Film Festival, will be out on Lionsgate Play on October 17. Shahana described 'Santosh' as a film that is very close to her heart. " A beautifully written story, depicted truthfully, holding up a mirror to us of the world we live in, that we have all helped create. Sandhya Suri, the writer and director, has crafted somethi ...Read More >
Patna, Oct 6 (PTI) RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday said Bihar will vote for change in the upcoming assembly polls and "every Bihari will be the CM". Soon after the Election Commission announced the poll schedule, Yadav took to X to strike an emotional chord with voters. "Bihar will vote for a change in the coming assembly polls. After 20 years, a grand festival will arrive that will dispel all sorrows and troubles. On that day, every Bihari will join Tejashwi in celebrating victory, becaus ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) India has witnessed a significant decline in violent crimes over the past decade, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The figures reveal a dramatic turnaround in crime trends since 2014, marking a period of enhanced safety, particularly for women, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government. Between 2004 and 2014, violent crimes such as murder, rape, dowry deaths, and riots surged across the country. Rape cases nearly double ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The external affairs ministry on Friday dismissed as "false and baseless" a senior Bangladeshi official's claim that India was involved in violent clashes in the neighbouring country, and said the interim government in Dhaka should instead conduct serious investigations into the activities of local extremists. After violent clashes between two tribal groups and Bengali-speaking people at Khagrachhari district in Chittagong Hill Tracts in southwestern Bangladesh left three people dead ...Read More >
New Delhi: India has witnessed a significant drop in violent crimes, including murders, rapes and dowry deaths under the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government, a PIB report claimed on Friday. Referring to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, the report said it shows that while murders, rapes, dowry deaths, and riots surged between 2004 and 2014, they have all declined significantly since 2014, making the country much safer, especially for women under the ruling dispensation. Re ...Read More >
Meet The Man Who Left Well Paying Job In US To Build India's Viral Messaging App; Now Owns Rs 1,04,00,00,00,000 Firm; Check His Education, Net Worth, He Is... As Thursday marks the end of the four-day Durga Puja festival in West Bengal without a single protest demonstration regarding the R.G. Kar rape and murder tragedy, the parents of the victim have called for the resurrection of the mass movement, as was evident last year, until "justice is achieved." At the same time, while speaking to a s ...Read More >
Hyderabad, October 2: A seven-year-old girl, who had been missing since Tuesday, was found dead in a water tank under the Madannapet police station limits in Hyderabad, police said on Thursday. The officials have registered a case and are investigating the matter, while the deceased has been shifted to the hospital for a post-mortem, according to officials. "A 7-year-old missing girl was found dead in a water tank yesterday. We have registered a case and are investigating the matter. The deceas ...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 >
Lucknow: Senior Samajwadi Party leader and former minister Gayatri Prajapati was attacked by a fellow inmate inside Lucknow Jail on Tuesday. The scuffle took place within the jail premises, after which prison authorities launched an internal inquiry. According to a statement issued by Dr Ramdhani, DIG Prisons, Lucknow Range, the incident occurred after Prajapati allegedly used abusive language towards another inmate, Vishwas Rajput. In response, Vishwas attacked Prajapati using a sharp object i ...Read More >
Murakambattu (Andhra Pradesh), Oct 1 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh police on Wednesday apprehended three men for allegedly raping a minor Dalit girl in a public park here in Chittoor district, said an official on Wednesday. Chittoor town Sub-divisional police officer T Sainath said the girl was raped on September 25 at Nagaravanam Park in Chittoor town, and the accused assaulted her male friend and stole their valuables. The girl's friend approached Chittoor police four days later after the assault and ...Read More >
At a time when most people use keyboards to write, does handwriting really matter? Yes, say Indian courts, if the writer is a doctor. Jokes around the notoriously bad handwriting of many doctors that can only be deciphered by pharmacists are common in India, as around the world. But the latest order emphasising the importance of clear handwriting came recently from the Punjab and Haryana High Court which said that "legible medical prescription is a fundamental right" as it can make a differenc ...Read More >
Leh, Oct 1 (PTI) The Union Territory of Ladakh, known for its lowest crime graph in the country, recorded 522 cases under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Special and Local Laws (SLL) in 2023, according to official crime data. The figures released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) highlight fluctuating crime trends in the Union Territory -- a decline in 2022 followed by a fresh rise in 2023. The number of cases in 2023 reflects an increase from 478 cases registered in 2022, though sti ...Read More >
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