Tag: Rape

Buxar: In a gruesome incident akin to the Hyderabad veterinary doctor killing, a girl was shot dead and burnt after being allegedly raped in Kukudha village of Bihar’s Buxar district on Monday night, police said on Tuesday. Police recovered the charred body of the girl this morning (around 6 am) from a deserted field under […]

By Devjyoti Patnaik A young self-dependent woman starts from office towards her home, is found brutally murdered after being raped the next day… A middle aged married woman, mother to 2 teenagers doesn’t return home from grocery shopping in the evening… A class 11 girl is gang-raped by her own friends… A 10 yr old […]

New Delhi: Deploring the rape and murder of a veterinarian in Hyderabad, Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Tuesday said that verdict in rape cases should be pronounced in as many months as the age of the victim and convicts should not be allowed to file mercy petitions. Such heinous crimes against women show that […]

By Sandeep Sahu Who drove the Rairangpur lady lecturer to suicide? It was certainly not Soumya Ranjan Sahoo, the man who allegedly raped her and was arrested for it – but only after her death. Had that been the case, she would have committed suicide nearly a month back, soon after she was raped by […]

Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh): Four persons, including a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan and the son of a retired jailor, have been arrested for allegedly abducting a class 10 student and then gangraping her at a deserted place. The car in which the girl was taken had a police logo on it. Inspector of Halia […]

New Delhi: A Delhi court has acquitted a man of the charge of allegedly raping his maid on the grounds that the victim “contacted the police after three months” and she continued working there even after the incident. The court noted that after lodging of the FIR, when she was medically examined by the doctors, […]

Firozabad (UP): A 20-year-old girl was gangraped by four men and thrown at a secluded spot in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district, police said on Wednesday. The girl, hailing from neighbouring Agra, was on her way to a coaching centre situated under the Hari Parvat police station area. The accused told the victim that her brother […]

Chandigarh: Amid growing concern over women’s safety, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday announced free police help to drop women safely home if they are stranded outside between 9 PM and 6 AM. The statewide facility will be available on dialling 100, 112 and 181, through which the woman caller will be connected immediately […]

Chandigarh: A nine-year-old girl died after she was allegedly raped by her father in Rohtak district of Haryana, police said on Wednesday. According to the victim’s mother, she and her husband have been living separately. Her husband took their daughter to his home on November 27 and allegedly raped her, the woman said in her […]

Sitapur (UP): A 15-year-old girl was allegedly gang raped by two men in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on the night of December 3 when two persons took the victim to the sugarcane field, raped her and later abandoned her in the field after gagging her and tying […]

New Delhi: After the gruesome gang-rape and murder of a young veterinarian in Hyderabad and the setting ablaze of a rape survivor in Unnao, the Union Home Secretary has written a letter to all the states and Union Territories, urging them to give highest priority to women’s safety. In his letter to state to state […]

Unnao: Even as the death of the Unnao rape victim who was set ablaze by her accused has led to national outrage, another rape incident has taken place in the Uttar Pradesh district. A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man from her neighbouring village on Friday. The accused allegedly dragged the minor girl […]

Pune: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said bringing laws to curb atrocities against women was not the only solution as “political will” and “administrative skills” were required to end the social evil. Referring to recent incidents in Unnao and Hyderabad, Naidu said, “In Indian culture, we treat a woman as a mother, a […]

Nabarangpur: The last rites of the girl allegedly gang raped and murdered in Nabarangpur was performed today in the presence of district sub-collector, Kodinga tehsildar and family members of the victim. As per reports, sub-collector Bhaskar Raita lent a shoulder to the mortal remains of the victim while it was being carried to the cremation […]

Sundergarh: In a shocking development, a Jawan accused of raping a tribal girl in Lahunipada police limits of Sundergarh district surrendered before police on Tuesday. The Odia Jawan, Birendra Samad, was reportedly on the run since last two months after a complaint was lodged against him at the local police station. According to police sources, […]