Tag: Minor Girl Rape

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police is all set to start a mega awareness campaign titled ‘Pari Paain Katha Tie’ to spread the message on safety of minor girls. Giving out the details during a presser on Wednesday, DGP RP Sharma said, “There has been a steep rise in cases of sexual assaults on minor girls in […]

A special court in Bhubaneswar awarded 10 years imprisonment under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, to accused Gajendra Buxi for raping a minor girl in 2016. Buxi had raped a minor girl in the Chandaka area in Bhubaneswar and was subsequently arrested by police in 2016. In another incident,

Phulbani: With sharp rise in minor girl rape cases continuing to generate public outcry in Odisha, another incident of sexual assault of a minor girl was reported from Kandhamal district today. Four persons including a juvenile have been arrested in connection with the case. According to reports, on May 12, a minor girl was allegedly […]

Puri: A minor girl was allegedly raped on the premises of a school in Nayahat police outpost area of Puri district today. Family members of the girl informed that she had gone to a nearby market and did not return for a long time. She was spotted on the school premises and rushed to the […]

Nayagarh/ Balasore: Incidents of sexual assault on minor girls continue unabated in Odisha after rape of two more minor girls, including a divyang, was reported from two separate places in the State. A differently-abled minor girl was allegedly raped and impregnated by a youth at Itamati village of Nayagarh district. The accused, Brajabandhu Sahoo of […]

Phulbani: A minor school girl who had earlier levelled charges of molestation by her school headmaster, on Monday filed a new police complaint alleging that she was raped. The matter came to the fore after the survivor, who was raped in a residential school near Daringbandi area of Kandhamal district, disclosed the ordeal before her […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha BJP’s Mahila Morcha is planning to turn the heat on the State government on rising incidents of crime against women including rape of minor girls by launching a 10-day state-wide campaign – ‘Mahila Surakhsya and Samman Yatra’ – from May 17. Alleging inefficiency of Odisha government and police in checking atrocities against women, […]

Khurda/Bhubaneswar: In yet another incident of sexual assault against minors, a minor girl was allegedly raped in Arisala village under Jatni police limits of Khurda district on Sunday. What is more horrific is that the girl alleged that she was raped by a minor boy of the same village. As per sources, the survivor narrated […]

Puri: Amid growing public outrage against the State Government which has reportedly failed to address the atrocities committed on women, particularly minor girls in Odisha, internationally acclaimed sand artist and Padma Shree Sudarsan Pattnaik has come up with a sand sculpture in order to create awareness among the people. Pattnaik, along with his students sculpted […]

Balsore: The POCSO court in Balasore on Thursday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and murdering a minor girl near Nemba Nai under Sadar police limits in the district in 2014. Sources said the minor girl, a resident of Lathikata of Sundergarh district was abducted by the accused Pradeep Acharya of Chaulachhada area […]

Nayagarh: A class IX girl student was allegedly raped by a youth in a village in Nayagarh district on Thursday. According to the complaint, the accused identified as Duryodhan Das had called the minor girl to his residence where he raped her. While Duryodhan is absconding, police have carried out the medical examination of the […]

Nayagarh: A woman was allegedly raped by a youth under Ranpur police limits in Nayagarh district when she was alone at her home on Tuesday evening. The accused, who is from the same village has been arrested, police said. Ranpur Police Station IIC Girija Shankar Rath said, “The woman, whose husband has died, came to […]

Nayagarh: There is no let up to cases of sexual abuse and rape against minor girls in Odisha with one more incident being reported from Nayagarh district today. Sources said one Kathia Nayak of Taria village under Ranpur police limits allegedly raped the minor girl while she had gone to attend nature’s call to a […]

Kendrapara: A minor girl was allegedly raped after being kidnapped by a man in Birabhanjapur village under Talchua marine police station of Kendrapara district today. The accused has been detained by the police. As per a complaint lodged by the family of the girl, the accused, a distant relative (brother-in-law) of hers from the same […]

Bhubaneswar: With the Salepur minor girl rape incident snowballing into a major controversy, the Crime Branch of Odisha Police designated it as a ‘Red Flag’ case  on Monday. “The alleged rape and strangulation case of the minor girl at Salepur has been taken very seriously and tagged under the Red Flag category. The Crime Branch […]