Tag: Sexual Assault

Bhubaneswar: A 7-year-old girl was raped by a 70-year-old neighbour in Odisha’s Gajapati district, police said on Monday. The incident, which occurred at New Camp Street II, came to light after the girl’s father lodged a complaint with the police on Sunday night. Police said the accused, identified as Barik Pradhan, had been sexually assaulting […]

Keonjhar: In another shocking incident, a young woman was allegedly abducted in front of her friends and gang raped by five youths behind a school under Telkoi police limits of Keonjhar district on Friday. Sources said one of the accused has been arrested in connection with the case. According to a complaint filed at the […]

London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Thursday, seven years after he took refuge there to avoid extradition to Sweden in a sexual assault case that has since been dropped. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) said that Assange was detained “on a warrant issued by Westminster Magistrates’ Court […]

Surat: The Surat Sessions Court on Friday pronounced Narayan Sai, son of self-styled godman Asaram, guilty in a 2013 rape case. The quantum of sentence will be announced on April 30. Narayan Sai, 40, was arrested from Pipli near Haryana’s Kurukshetra in December 2013 after two sisters from Surat filed rape complaints against him and […]

Dhaka: Sixteen people, including a head teacher of an Islamic seminary, were charged in Bangladesh on Wednesday with the murder of a 19-year-old girl, who was burnt to death after reporting sexual harassment. Nusrat Jahan Rafi had filed a police complaint against headmaster Siraj Ud Doula in late March and he was arrested. On April […]

Gorakhpur (UP): A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped and killed by her father’s acquaintance here following which he was arrested on Saturday, police said. On Friday, Vinod Rai, 55, saw the girl and her 12-year-old sister playing in their house, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sunil Gupta said. He told them that their father was […]

Unnao (Uttar Pradesh): A 11-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district. The incident took place on Friday in Safipur police circle. The girl, who was sleeping outside her house, was found missing when her father woke up in the middle of the night. “Initially, I thought that she might have gone […]

Keonjhar: A day after a 12-year-old girl was gang raped in Joda police limits of Keonjhar district, the cops arrested six persons in connection with the case following simultaneous raids at different places. Shockingly, all the six accused are juveniles. The accused minor boys were initially detained at the local police station for interrogation and […]

Kendrapara: A group of three miscreants allegedly attempted to rape a woman after physically assaulting her husband and two sons late yesterday night in Poipata village under Pattamundai police limits of Odisha’s Kendrapara district. As per reports, the miscreants knocked at the door of the victim’s house on Friday night. When no one opened the […]

New Delhi: In a shocking incident, two minor boys gang-raped a five-year-old girl in the national capital. According to the police, the accused, aged 11 and 10 years, as well as the victim lived in the same area in Kapasera near the Delhi border. “The kids were playing in the park on Monday night. The […]

Baripada: In a shameful incident, a 17-month-old girl was allegedly raped by one of her relatives in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district. The incident took place in Khunta area of the district on Friday. As per the police complaint filed by the baby girl’s parents at Khunta Police Station, the accused sexually assaulted the child while she […]

Sundergarh: The district police on Sunday detained four Plus-III students of a degree college for allegedly raping one of their classmates last month. Police have also seized a bike (bearing registration number OD 16 F 1241) used by the accused in the crime. As per the allegation, the girl student was waiting for a bus […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: There is growing concern in the state over cases of pregnancy of teenage girls in schools and hostels run by SC\ST development department. The issue not only raises moral questions it also puts a question mark over the management of these institutions. For the record as many as 17 cases of […]

Kalahandi: The Bolangir Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on Sunday confirmed truth behind the allegations that Saroj Das, the head of Vision, an organization which manages ‘Prayas’ shelter home in Bhawanipatna, sexually abused a minor inmate of the shelter home meant for HIV kids. Bolangir CWC chairperson, Jageswar Mohanty informed that his team has received vital […]

Sundergarh: Tangarpali Police on Saturday nabbed two minor boys on the charges of gang raping a minor girl on July 31. According to reports, the survivor had gone to the local market for shopping when three boys in an SUV asked her to accompany them for a ride. Later, the trio took the girl to […]