Sambalpur: Exactly a month after the horrific gang rape of a 15-year-old girl in Sasana area, a special POCSO court here on Saturday awarded life imprisonment to five convicts in the sensational case. Additional District Judge, Uday Bhanu Jena, District, and Sessions Judge Court, Sambalpur pronounced life imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs […]
Kendrapara: A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her uncle in Rajkanika area of the district on April 24. The matter came to the fore after the family members of the survivor lodged an FIR at Rajkanika police station on Sunday. However, police today arrested the accused, who happens to be the girl’s paternal uncle, […]
Jagatsinghpur/ Balasore: Incidents of sexual abuse of minor girls continue unabated in Odisha with yet another case being reported from Jagatsinghpur district. In the latest incident, a Class 9 girl student was allegedly raped by three youths in Krisnanandapur police outpost area under Tirtol police limits of the district yesterday. Sources said, when the 14-year-old […]
Bhubaneswar: In one more addition to the shocking rise in cases of sexual abuse against minors, a 60 year-old man has been arrested for raping an 8-year-old girl in Bhubaneswar today. The incident was reported from Rental colony on the outskirts of the capital city. As per allegations, the accused, a 60-year-old man from the […]
Bhubaneswar: After tagging it as a ‘Red Flag’ category case, Odisha Police on Thursday formed special teams to conduct a detailed investigation into the gang rape of a minor girl allegedly by ‘men in uniform’ at Pottangi in Koraput district. DGP RP Sharma informed that five police teams are on the job while investigation into […]
Ganjam: K. Nuagaon Police on Sunday arrested a person on the charges of raping a minor girl from Khambaria Panchayat of the district. The accused has been identified as Rajendra Gouda of K. Nuagaon under Chikiti block in Ganjam dictrict. According to reports, Gouda had allegedly raped the minor on August 23 and fled, following […]
Phulbani: Juvenile Justice Board, Phulbani in a trendsetting judgement on Thursday sentenced a minor rape accused to a one year stay at Gopabandhu Children’s Home in Phulbani. The board ordered that the 14-year-old accused of raping a 3-year-old girl in 2014, in Daringbadi of Kandhamal district, will have to serve the inmates of the Children’s […]
Kendrapara: In yet another shameful incident after the Baripada Jagannath temple case, two minor girls, one of them a Dalit, were allegedly raped in separate incidents in Derabish police station under the jurisdiction of Kendrapara district in Odisha. While the 12-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly sexually assaulted in Badamangrajpur village, another 16-year-old was raped in […]
Nayagarh: A ninth class girl was allegedly raped and the incident was filmed and was made viral by some youths in Nayagarh district. The youths had filmed the act for blackmailing the minor girl. The incident came to light after some villagers saw the viral video. They caught the main accused yesterday and handed him […]
Bhubaneswar: Sensing the gravity of the case following growing public outrage across the State and criticism from Opposition parties, the State government on Saturday said it has put the minor rape case in Jatni under the Red Flag category. Police said a charge sheet in the case will be filed within 10 days. Informing this […]
Hyderabad: In a shocking incident, a minor girl was reported to being repeatedly raped here by a relative and a group of youths for the last three years, police said on Monday. Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar entrusted the case to Assistant Commissioner of Police K. Sridevi, after the relatives of the victim on Sunday […]
Shahjahanpur (UP):A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 12-year-old boy in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur district here, police said Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday in a village under Kalan police station limits, they said. Police station in-charge Harendra Singh Tomar said the girl was playing outside her residence when the accused allegedly lured […]
New Delhi: A 35-year-old sanitation worker was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl at a public toilet in west Delhi’s Naraina area, police said on Monday. Police said the accused, identified as Kailash, 35, was arrested from a public toilet on Monday after the victim’s parents reported the incident to the police. The […]
Kandhamal: Three days after a minor girl’s body was found in a water tank at Katedikia village under Mandakia panchayat in Raikia police limits of the district, police today arrested a youth on charges of raping and murdering the girl. During interrogation, accused Sumanta Diggal admitted his crime. As per reports, the body of a […]
Bhopal: The body of an eight-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped, was found near a drain here in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday, a police official said. Preliminary investigation revealed that she died of strangulation after being raped, he said. The girl had ventured out of her house in Kamla Nagar area of the state capital […]