Tag: Crimes Against Women

Twelve women were victims of murder with rape or gang rape.

Odisha witnessed 10,219 rape cases during the period between 2019 and 2022 (April) including 5584 cases of sexual assault against minor girls.

Bolangir: A woman was brutally attacked by a youth after she resisted his rape attempt at Juba village under Belpada police limits in Bolangir district. The NCRB report-2016 released last week had placed Odisha in one of the top rankers on crimes against women. As per the complaint, when the woman had gone to a […]

New Delhi: Number of crimes recorded against women went up in 2016 to more than 3.3 lakh (338,954) from 3.2 lakh (329,243) in 2015, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, Parliament was told on Tuesday. Minister of State for Home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir informed the Lok Sabha, in a written reply, that the […]

Bhubaneswar: A group of singers have come forward to lend their voice to a song which aims to raise awareness against the rising atrocities against women and girls across Odisha. The artistes – Rajib Lochan Mishra, Shraddha Acharya and Chelsi Behura who have been on the popular singing reality show ‘Indian Idol’ will be recording […]

New Delhi: India recorded an average of 87 rape cases daily in 2019 and overall 4,05,861 cases of crime against women during the year, a rise of over 7 per cent from 2018, a latest government data showed Tuesday. The country recorded 3,78,236 cases of crimes against women in 2018, the data compiled by the […]

Bhubaneswar: For Odisha, the year 2020 scripted a tale of unending struggles, sacrifices and miseries in the wake of once-in-a-century pandemic, but in the midst of them all, crimes also seemed not to let the State sleep in peace. As per the data available with the government, the State was a shocked spectator to at […]