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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 >
Thiruvananthapuram: The special investigation team probing the rape case at Kazhakkoottam took into custody a 38-year-old truck driver from his native Madurai in Tamil Nadu on Sunday.DCP T Farash told TOI that the person taken into custody is likely the culprit as he was the only person spotted in the CCTV visuals before and after the crime. Since the crime took place in the dark, the woman couldn't recognise the perpetrator. The probe team will have to verify a number of things before proceedin ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram: The Tamil Nadu-based man who was arrested for allegedly raping a woman IT employee staying at a hostel room in Kazhakkoottam on Friday committed the crime during a theft attempt, said city police commissioner Thomson Jose on Monday. Meanwhile, the survivor, who is 25 years old, identified the accused, Benjamin, 38, a native of Madurai. Benjamin owns a truck and was the driver of the vehicle too. The crime took place when he arrived at Kazhakkoottam carrying cargo.The probe te ...Read More >
Nizamabad (Telangana) [India], October 20 (ANI): The Nizamabad police arrested Sheikh Riyaz in the murder of 42-year-old constable E. Pramod. He was taken into police custody after he allegedly attempted to attack a man named Asif near Sarangapur under the limits of Nizamabad Town 6 Police Station. According to a statement from the Nizamabad Police on Sunday, "Today, under the Nizamabad Town 6 police station limits, near the Sarangpur area, the accused Riyaz attacked a person named Asif, and bo ...Read More >
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Thursday granted bail to Samajwadi Party leader Moid Ahmed in last year's Ayodhya gang rape case. A single bench of Justice Pankaj Bhatia passed the order on the bail plea of the accused.The accused had pleaded that he had been falsely implicated in the case for political reasons. He said that he is 71-year-old and the victim's statements and the FIR did not mention the exact date and time of the incident. It was also added that as the victim ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has rejected the bail plea of a 28-year-old serial child rapist from Kharghar, arrested for allegedly raping his 11-year-old niece in the fourth case against him of child sexual abuse. Just Amit Borkar the accused's bail and said that granting him bail would "not only send a wrong message to society but would also jeopardize the safety and security of the victim and the fairness of the trial process". The court also noted that if released on bail, the accused, a m ...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 >
Bhubaneswar: the minor girl sexual assault case in Bhubaneswar, A three-member team from the State Commission for Women (SCW) visited Laxmisagar police station on Sunday in connection with the minor girl assault case in Bhubaneswar. The SCW team -- comprising Urmila Mohapatra, Pratibha Satapathy and Sasmita Das -- also visited the 16-year-old Jharkhand girl who is under treatment at the Capital Hospital. The minor was rescued in a critical condition with multiple injuries after she was allege ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram: The police team probing the rape of a woman IT employee at her hostel in Kazhakkoottam collected crucial CCTV visuals, possibly of the accused, on Saturday."Since the CCTV cameras in the hostel were not functional, we had to check the visuals in the adjacent building. In the visual, a man was seen approaching the hostel and entering through the front gate, which remained open. The crime took place around 2am, and the man was spotted in the visuals almost at the same time. We ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Oct 18 (PTI) A teenage girl, initially thought to have been rescued in a distressed state from the roadside in Bhubaneswar, was found to be a victim of sexual assault, leading to the busting of a sex racket operating in Laxmisagar area, police said on Saturday. The 16-year-old girl, a resident of Jharkhand, was admitted to Capital Hospital after a woman reportedly rescued her from Ashok Nagar on Thursday night. However, during further investigation, it was found that the woman was ...Read More >
On March 18, 2024, the father of the five-and-a-half-year-old girl had lodged a complaint at Bah police station stating that his daughter went missing after she had gone to play near the canal. The Court of Special Judge (POCSO Act), Agra, on Thursday, awarded death sentence to two accused for the kidnapping, gangrape and murder of a five-and-a-half-year-old minor girl last year. The Judge Sonika Chaudhary pronounced the judgement in a matter for which a case was registered on March 19, 2024, a ...Read More >
BARIPADA: The additional district and sessions judge-cum-presiding officer of special POCSO court of Baripada on Friday sentenced a 23-year-old youth to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) for the rape of a 12-year-old minor girl in Mayurbhanj. Balaram Munda of Badakuleibira within Jamda police limits was charged with raping the minor girl on November 23, 2021. Judge Pratima Patra convicted Balaram and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000. Based on statements of the witnesses and medical report, the ...Read More >
According to the police, the girl's grandfather allegedly got her married. Palghar: A 13-year-old tribal girl from Maharashtra's Palghar district was allegedly forcibly married off and raped, police said on Friday. Based on a complaint lodged by the minor, the police have registered a case against five persons, including the groom and his family from Ahilyanagar, an official said. According to the police, the girl's grandfather allegedly got her married to a man from Ahilyanagar in September ...Read More >
The alleged incident occurred on October 10. The accused, identified as Jeevan Gowda, a sixth-semester student, was arrested by Bengaluru police on Wednesday and has been remanded to judicial custody. Police have arrested a 21-year-old engineering student for allegedly raping his college mate inside a men's washroom on the campus of a private college in South Bengaluru. The alleged incident occurred on October 10. The accused, identified as Jeevan Gowda, a sixth-semester student, was taken int ...Read More >
BENGALURU: A engineering student of Bengaluru city was allegedly raped by her friend on the college campus, a week back, before she registered a police complaint leading to the arrest of the accused identified as Jeevan Gowda (21), studying in sixth semester. The victim is a student in the 7th semester. It is alleged Jeevan Gowda dragged his friend to the college washroom and reportedly insisted on unnatural sex with him. The victim resisted to it which later led to rape on her inside the washr ...Read More >
Ramgarh SP Ajay Kumar said the accused driver, hailing from Bihar's Gaya district, was arrested from Khalari area in Ranchi. A truck driver from Bihar was arrested for allegedly raping and killing a 39-year-old woman in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district, police said on Tuesday. The alleged incident took place on October 11 near Chaingada village under Bhadainagar police station limits, and the body of the woman was recovered near a state highway, they said. Ramgarh SP Ajay Kumar said the accused d ...Read More >
Fatehpur (UP), Oct 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amid high drama and tight security, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday met the family of Hariom Valmiki -- the Dalit man who was lynched in UP's Raebareli recently over allegations of theft -- and assured them of all possible support. After spending about half an hour with the family, Rahul Gandhi told mediapersons: "A few days ago, a Dalit officer committed suicide. I went there, and today I've come here. The crime was not co ...Read More >
Bengaluru: A seventh-semester student at BMS College of Engineering in South Bengaluru's Basavanagudi area was allegedly raped by her junior inside a men's washroom on the campus, police said on Friday. According to police, the Hanumanthanagar police arrested Jeevan Gowda, 21, a fifth-semester student, on Wednesday in connection with the alleged assault. He is currently in judicial custody. The incident reportedly took place on October 10, but the First Information Report (FIR) was filed on Oc ...Read More >
Bengaluru, October 17: In a shocking incident, an engineering student was allegedly raped on the premises of her college within the limits of Hanumanthanagar police station in Bengaluru. The incident came to light on Friday. The police have arrested the accused, identified as 21-year-old Jeevan Gowda. He was later produced in a court, which remanded him to judicial custody. According to the police, the accused and the victim were friends studying in the same college. The accused was a classmate ...Read More >
Bengaluru Shocker: An engineering student was allegedly dragged by her junior into the men's washroom of a private college in Bnegaluru and raped. The accused is a 21 year-old-old student, currently in the fifth-semester. The victim is a seventh semester student at the same college. Both students knew each other, police said as per news agency PTI. The accused has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody. ALSO READ: Mumbai Weather: Upper Air Cyclonic Circulation Triggers Heavy Rain Amid ...Read More >
Bengaluru: A female student of a private engineering college here was allegedly raped by her junior inside the men's washroom on the campus, police said on Friday. The accused, a fifth-semester student (21), was known to the victim, who is in the seventh semester at the same college, they said. The accused has been arrested on charges of rape and produced before a court, which remanded him to judicial custody, they added. According to police, in her complaint, the woman stated that the incident ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Oct 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly, R. Ashoka, has written a letter to the National Commission for Women (NCW) on Friday, citing the rising number of sexual assaults on girls in the state, and demanding urgent intervention. He also urged the NCW to send a fact-finding committee urgently to the state. Ashoka stated, "The law and order in Karnataka has collapsed. In just 4 months, 979 incidents of sexual assaults on girls were reported. In B ...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 >
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 >
Vijayawada: Guntur Railway Police Thursday detained a suspect for allegedly raping and robbing at knifepoint a 35-year-old woman passenger from Andhra Pradesh aboard the ladies' compartment of Santragachi Special Express (07222) on Oct 13.In her complaint, the woman stated that she was travelling from AP's Rajahmahendravaram to Hyderabad's Cherlapally and was alone in the compartment when the alleged crime occurred between Guntur and Peddakurapadu stations. She claimed that the accused -- now id ...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 >
The Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, hosted by the University of Edinburgh and the University of New South Wales, this week launched the findings from its latest Into the Light Index 2025, describing the situation as a "human tragedy of global proportions". According to the Into the Light Index 2025, India has shown a 94 per cent rise in reported sexual offences against children under POCSO between 2017 and 2022, from 33,210 to 64,469 cases. "Despite rising numbers, the country's pros ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 16 (PTI) The processing time for requests from the country's law enforcement agencies to Interpol to issue a Red Notice for the detention of a fugitive has drastically decreased, on average, from 14 months to three months now, CBI Director Praveen Sood said on Thursday. In his welcome address at a conference on 'Extradition of Fugitives: Challenges and Strategies' organised by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and inaugurated by Home Minister Amit Shah, Sood said only eig ...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 >
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 >
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