Tag: Rape

After the incident came to the fore, villagers staged a road blockade demanding justice for the victim. According to sources, tension escalated when the police reached the spot and asked the agitating villagers to withdraw their road blockade. 

The four suspects were arrested on Monday morning, the police said, adding that the alleged incident took place on Sunday night in the Banipur Dhekeri Gaon neighbourhood of the district.

According to the relatives of the woman, the accused also snatched away her chain, rings and other valuable items before fleeing. 

The official has been booked for allegedly raping his deceased friend's minor daughter for several months.

However, Constable Mahesh Kumar Gurjar was let go by police personnel from the local police station after they took him for a medical examination, they said.

A special POCSO court in Aligarh has sentenced a 45-year-old man to 20 years of imprisonment for raping the nine-year-old daughter of his live-in partner.

The police identified the 21-year-old victims as as Mahananda, a resident of Laxmisagar locality, while the accused was named as Krishnachand Seti.

The complainant said that the three girls, who were known to his daughter, persuaded her to go out with them on the night of July 27.

A court in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district on Monday sentenced a 60-year-old man to imprisonment for two decades for raping a five-year-old girl who is related to him.

The woman claimed that Abujar had raped her multiple times, and the incident had escalated after her husband's death.

A man from Hugulapeta near Berhampur was arrested for allegedly raping a six-year-old girl on June 28 on the roof of his house, the officer said.

Speaking to the media, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said the new scheme, launched under the aegis of the Nirbhaya scheme, is aimed at ensuring both infrastructural and financial support for pregnant minor victims who have no means to fend for themselves.

She finally lodged a written complaint with Mangalabag police station after the agency did not take any action in this regard.

The woman added that since her love marriage around 2019, her husband and in-laws had been torturing her on various grounds though the exact reasons - whether dowry demands or others - were not available.

The accused has been arrested and forwarded to court.