New Delhi: The Union Cabinet today approved an ordinance to allow courts to award death penalty to those convicted of raping children up to 12 years of age. Official sources said that the criminal law amendment ordinance seeks to amend the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Evidence Act, the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) […]
Kendrapara: A court here has sentenced a man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a woman in 2013. Additional Sessions Judge-cum-Special Court judge Pragyan Panigrahi convicted 38-year-old Babuni Bhol for the crime on Friday. According to the prosecution, Bhol, a resident of Shyamsundarpur village under Sadar police station in the district, raped the […]
Hisar: A six-year-old girl, who was raped and killed in Haryana’s Uklana area, was cremated today amid tight security, as the agitated locals protested over the gruesome crime. Some unidentified men had allegedly abducted the girl on Friday night when she was sleeping with her sister and mother in their home in a slum area. […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today criminalised sex with minor wife aged between 15 and 18 years, saying the exception in the rape law was arbitrary and was violative of the Constitution. Section 375 of the IPC, which defines the offence of rape, has an exception clause that says intercourse or sexual act by a […]
Jaipur: Police today arrested a 70-year-old self-styled godman, accused of raping a law student, from a private hospital in Alwar in Rajasthan. Police said Swami Kaushlendra Prapannachari Falahari Maharaj had got admitted to the hospital after the 21-year-old woman from Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur district filed a rape complaint against him earlier this month. Aravali police station SHO […]
Phulbani (Odisha): A court here today sentenced a man to 11-year rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor. Additional District and sessions Judge, Kandhamal, Susant Patel sentenced Sukant Nayak to 11 years of RI after convicting him of raping the minor. The court also slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on him and ordered that he […]
Lahore: A 16-year-old girl was raped by a man in front of her family on the orders of the village council as a punishment after her brother was accused of raping the man’s sister in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police said on Wednesday. Police have arrested 20 people after the incident that took place on July […]
Jajpur: A man was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for 15 years for raping a newly married woman and treprassing into her house at a village in Jajpur district five years ago. While holding Pramod Swain alias Nilu (32) guilty under Section 376 (rape) of IPC, Jajpur District and Sessions Judge Padma Charan Dash awarded him […]
Baripada: A local court in Mayurbhanj district today ordered seven-year rigorous imprisonment for a 23-year-old man for raping a minor girl. Mayurbhanj District Session Court judge Amiya Ranjan Jena convicted Deepak Kumar Singh under Sections 376, 451 of the IPC and Section 4 of POCSO (The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act. He was […]
Two youths were arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl in the seaside Baradanga village in Kendrapara district
A four-year-old Odia girl has been sexually assaulted by a dance instructor of a city school, police said on Sunday
A man was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a local court for kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old about two and half years ago
Etawah (UP): A nine-year-old girl was allegedly abducted, raped, and murdered in Bharthana area here, police said today. The incident took place last night when some persons abducted the girl from near her house, took her to a secluded place and raped her, they said. They later killed the girl by hitting her with some […]
Kohima: A rape accused succumbed to internal injuries after he was beaten up by a mob in Khekiho village under Dhansiripar police outpost in Dimapur district of Nagaland, police said today. The deceased, identified as Hussain Ali (35), allegedly confined a minor girl in his house and raped her, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Dimapur, […]
A minor girl was allegedly raped and murdered by unidentified men who poured acid on her face apparently to stall investigation at Sargipalli in Balangir district of Odisha, police said here yesterday
LIVE TV
