Tag: Gangrape

Lucknow: A 30-year-old woman was gang raped by four men in front of her husband and infant son in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Saturday. The criminals intercepted the family which was on a bike on a deserted stretch of road and dragged them to a sugarcane field. They tied her husband to […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hold an urgent hearing on a plea by Gujarat Police officer Ramabhai Bhagora seeking stay of a Bombay High Court order convicting him in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case. A vacation bench of Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Deepak Gupta said there was “no urgency” as this […]

Bhubaneswar: A local court in Keonjhar district of Odisha on Thursday awarded 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment to two persons for gang-raping a tribal woman in February last year. The Champua Additional District and Sessions Court Judge awarded 20 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a penalty of Rs 5,000 to Biswanath Gop and Deven Munda. […]

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its verdict on the plea of two condemned convicts–Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta — seeking a review of the 2017 verdict by which they, along with two others, were awarded death penalty in the sensational December 16, 2012 gangrape cum murder case here. The apex court […]

Muzaffarnagar: A teenage girl was allegedly abducted and gangraped for ten days at Bedia village here, police said today. According to a complaint filed by the victim’s family, the 17-year-old girl was picked up by four persons yesterday and taken to a secluded place where they raped her. The victim was then left by the accused […]

New Delhi: The fate of four death row convicts of the sensational December 16, 2012 gangrape and murder case would be decided tomorrow as the Supreme Court would deliver its verdict on their appeals challenging the Delhi High Court judgement. A bench comprising Justices Diapk Misra, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan would deliver the judgement tomorrow […]

Berhampur: Congress today demanded resignation of Odisha Women & Child Development Minister Usha Devi in the wake of gangrape of a 16-year-old girl in her Assembly constituency. “As women and children are not safe in her own constituency, Chikiti, Usha Devi has no moral right to continue as minister. She should resign immediately,” said state […]

Rourkela: Five persons were arrested in connection with the alleged gangrape of a married woman in front of her husband in Brahmanitaranga area of Sundargarh district, police said today. Suresh Dungdung (40), Kalia Oram (21), Biranchi Majhi (24), Prakash Lakra alias Matu (20) and Susant Sethi (25) were nabbed yesterday after a probe conducted on […]

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by four persons in a moving car in Faridpur township of the district, police said today

A local court today sentenced the driver and conductor of a bus to 20 years' imprisonment each after convicting them in the gangrape of an 18-year-old girl in Mayurbhanj district in 2013

Kendrapara: A minor was allegedly gang raped by a relative and two others for three days. The shocking incident has been reported from Aul of Kendrapara district. According to reports, the girl was abducted from her house by three persons including one of her relatives. Though the girl was kidnapped on Saturday last, the matter […]

Will the provision of death penalty end the rape of children below 12 in the country? Unpalatable though it may sound, the harsh truth is it won’t. If harsher laws were enough deterrence for potential rapists, rape cases would have stopped after the changes of law ushered in on the basis of the Justice JS […]

"When it started making rounds on the internet, the police was informed about it by the father of the victim and an FIR was registered against the five accused."

Jajpur: A minor girl was allegedly gang raped by two youths, including a relative of a local politician under Sukinda Police limits of Jajpur district on Wednesday evening. Soon after the incident came to fore, locals from the girl’s village gheraoed the Sukinda Police Station yesterday night demanding immediate arrest of the accused youths. A […]

Pathankot: Three main accused in the gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old nomad girl from Kathua were on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here, lawyers said. Sanji Ram, the caretaker of the temple where the crime took place, Special Police Officer Deepak Khajuria and Parvesh Kumar, a civilian, have been convicted under […]