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The Delhi Police on Monday arrested the father of a Delhi University student for allegedly staging a fake acid attack on his daughter. The development comes a day after reports claimed that a 20-year-old DU student was attacked near Laxmi Bai College. According to police, the case took a dramatic turn when multiple inconsistencies emerged, including CCTV footage showing no presence of the alleged attackers, discrepancies in the victim's movement, and the location of the accused being kilometres ...Read More >
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar said he was 'very, very sad' to hear about the Indore molestation case of two Australian women cricketers who are here for the 2025 World Cup. He said it was a 'heinous incident', hoping that the perpetrator was 'punished severely' with significant prison time. Two Australian women cricketers were followed and one molested by a man in the capital of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday morning. The incident occurred near Khajrana Road when the players were walking to a ...Read More >
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh minister Kailash Vijayvargiya has drawn severe flak from several quarters for saying that the two Australian women cricketers, victims of sexual assault by a man in Indore, should also share the blame for their ordeal. Even as the shocking incident rattled the cricket world as well as the sports lovers in the country, BJP veteran Mr. Vijayvargiya's controversial statement on it has triggered fresh outrage with several senior political leaders condemning him for his 'disgr ...Read More >
Two Australian women cricketers were stalked and one was molested in Indore. A man on a motorcycle followed them from their hotel. Police arrested the accused, Akil Khan, based on a bystander's information. Khan has previous criminal cases. The incident occurred while the cricketers were in India for the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup. Two Australian women cricketers, taking part in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, were allegedly stalked, and one of them was molested by a motorcycle-borne man ...Read More >
INDORE, India (AP) - Two cricketers from the Australian women's national team were inappropriately touched by a motorcyclist in the central Indian city of Indore, where they played in the Women´s Cricket World Cup. The two players were walking to a café from their team hotel on Thursday morning when the incident took place, Cricket Australia said Saturday. "CA can confirm two members of the Australian women´s team were approached and touched inappropriately by a motorcyclist while walking to ...Read More >
Kolkata: A 15-year-old girl who had come to the OPD of the state-run SSKM Hospital for a check-up on Wednesday afternoon was lured into a hospital washroom and molested by a 34-year-old man who claimed to be a ward boy at the NRS Hospital.The incident took place in the ground-floor washroom of the Trauma Care Centre (TCC) building, which is around 200 meters from the OPD building. Late on Wednesday, police arrested accused Amit Mullick from his home in Dhapa's Mallikpara.Mullick told cops he kne ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, Oct 25: In a shocking incident that has sparked global outrage, two Australian women cricketers were allegedly molested and "touched inappropriately" by a biker in Indore on Thursday morning while walking to a nearby cafe. The incident, which happened during the ongoing Women's World Cup, has sparked a storm on social media and led to strong criticism from international media concerning women's safety in India. Cricket Australia confirmed the disturbing incident in an official state ...Read More >
Indore, Oct 25 (PTI) The BCCI on Saturday strongly condemned the alleged stalking and molestation incident involving two Australian women's team cricketers promising to revisit its safety protocols and further tighten the security ahead of the knock-out stage of the World Cup. The two players had stepped out of their hotel and were walking towards a café when a man on a motorcycle started following them. He allegedly touched one of them inappropriately and rode off, according to the Sub-Inspect ...Read More >
Kolkata, Oct 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Trinamool Congress on Saturday slammed the BJP over its lack of outrage and studied silence on the suicide of a woman doctor in Maharashtra following repeated rape by police Sub-Inspector Gopal Badne and after being intimidated and threatened by an MP in the state. State minister Shashi Panja questioned whether the BJP has become so emotionally bankrupt that their leaders choose to ignore such a serious incident in a state ruled by their own party and its al ...Read More >
The sub-divisional court remanded the four accused -- including the woman's male friend, also a student of the same college -- to judicial custody till next Monday. A local court here on Wednesday remanded four accused, arrested in connection with the alleged gangrape of a medical student, to judicial custody till October 27. The student from Odisha was allegedly gangraped by some men outside the campus of the private medical college here on October 10 when she went out with a friend for dinne ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Satara police on Friday arrested Prashant Bankar, one of the accused in the rape and harassment case linked to the suspected suicide of a lady doctor in Maharashtra, while the main accused, suspended PSI Gopal Badane, continues to remain absconding. A 26-year-old woman doctor in Phaltan, Satara district, Maharashtra, died by suicide after leaving a seven-line note on her palm. In it, she accused police sub-inspector Gopal Banade of repeatedly raping and sexually exploiting her, and alle ...Read More >
Maharashtra doctor suicide case: The 28-year-old female doctor, employed at a government hospital in Phaltan,named two individuals in her suicide note. She accused a police officer of sexually assaulting her landlord's son in the case. Maharashtra doctor suicide case is in the spotlight since October 23, when a 28-year-old female medical practitioner was found hanging in a hotel room in Phaltan town of Satara district. The victim named her landlord's son and a police officer in her suicide note ...Read More >
KOLKATA: A 34-year-old man, who allegedly introduced himself as a paediatrician to a teenage girl's family at the SSKM hospital in Kolkata, and sexually assaulted her in a toilet, has been arrested, police said on Friday. The suspect has been identified as Amit Mullick, who was a Group D contractual employee at another state-run hospital about 5km away. He was arrested from his residence in east Kolkata under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act and produced ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 24 (ANI): Bollywood singer-composer Sachin Sanghvi has been booked in an alleged sexual assault case, police said on Friday. According to officials, an FIR has been filed at the Vile Parle Police Station in Mumbai based on a complaint lodged by a woman singer. In her complaint, the woman alleged that Sachin Sanghvi promised to marry her and help advance her career, but later subjected her to physical and mental harassment. According to the complaint, the ...Read More >
Kolkata, Oct 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Test Identification (TI) parade of the six arrested accused in the gang-rape of a second-year medical student of a private medical college and hospital in Durgapur of West Bengal was conducted on Friday in the presence of judicial and police officers. During the TI parade, the survivor, who hails from Odisha, identified the principal perpetrator of the sexual assault from among the six accused. According to police sources, the young medical student also iden ...Read More >
Srinagar, Oct 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) The principal district and sessions judge in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district on Friday sentenced a man to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of raping his minor daughter. In his judgement, the principal district and sessions judge, Anantnag (also the special judge under the POCSO Act) sentenced the man to imprisonment for the remainder of his natural life after convicting him for raping his minor daughter. FIR number 03/2022 was registered agains ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has rejected the anticipatory bail of a man accused of raping a 17-year-old girl.The court stated that friendship does not give a licence to repeatedly rape, confine, or beat the girl mercilessly. "The contention on behalf of the applicant that the applicant and the complainant were friends and therefore, it could be a case of consensual relationship, cannot be accepted by this court," it added.Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma noted that the accused had not joined the inv ...Read More >
A major controversy has erupted in the Tuni constituency of Kakinada district, Andhra Pradesh, after Narayana Rao -- said to be associated with a political party -- was arrested for the alleged attempt to sexually assault a minor girl at the Jagannadhagiri Gurukulam, a residential school. The incident has triggered widespread outrage, with the girl's family, villagers, and Dalit community leaders staging a large protest. They have demanded immediate justice and the suspension of the school's pr ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has acquitted a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping a minor, ruling that a mere claim of "physical relations" without supporting evidence is insufficient to establish rape or aggravated penetrative sexual assault. The case involved a 16-year-old girl who accused the man -- her cousin -- of establishing "physical relations" with her for over a year in 2014 under the false promise of marriage. Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri, in a recent order, said that while the g ...Read More >
Hyderabad: A senior Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader, Tatik Narayana Rao, was arrested in Tuni of Kakinada district in Andhra Pradesh, for allegedly attempting to sexually assault a 13-year-old schoolgirl. Rao, posing as her grandfather, lured the girl from Tuni Rural Gurukulam School to an isolated orchard in Hamsavaram village. A local spotted Rao with the girl, still in her school uniform, in the orchard and confronted him, recording the incident. The video, widely shared on social media wi ...Read More >
Tuni: A 62-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl in an orchard after picking her up from hostel, impersonating as the girl's grandfather, a police official said on Wednesday. She is a student in a government school, he added. Kakinada district superintendent of police (SP) Bindu Madhav Garikapati said T Narayana Rao committed the crime around 11 am on Tuesday. "He (Rao) lured the girl. The girl went with him with consent. But consent of a minor is not considered a consen ...Read More >
The court's observation came while allowing a man's appeal challenging his conviction and 10 years imprisonment in a rape case and acquitting him of the charges. "In the peculiar facts and circumstances of this case, the use of the term 'physical relations', unaccompanied by any supporting evidence, would not be sufficient to hold that the prosecution has been able to prove the offence beyond reasonable doubt. "The appellant's conviction under Section 376 IPC and Section 6 of the POCSO Act is ...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 >
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 >
Additional Sessions Judge D S Deshmukh convicted the accused, Kajal Babu Chandan, of multiple serious offences under the Indian Penal Code , the Immoral Traffic Act, 1956, and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 A copy of the order dated October 15 was made available on Saturday. According to the prosecution, the incident came to light on March 30, 2022, after the police received a tip-off that the accused was supplying girls for prostitution. A trap was laid with a bogus ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Tamil Nadu native arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a young IT professional at a women's hostel in Kazhakkoottam near here has been identified as a history-sheeter, police said on Monday. The arrested Benjamin was identified by the victim. According to the Kerala Police, who took Benjamin into custody on Sunday from Madurai, Benjamin is a lorry driver with a criminal record. He has now confessed to the crime during interrogation. He was ar ...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 >
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 >
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