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He has been booked under the Indian Penal Code for molestation and making vulgar calls, along with the relevant sections of the IT act. (Representational Image)

MP bar association refuses to represent accused in 8-yr-old abduction,...

The incident took place on Tuesday evening and accused, identified as Irfan, 20, was held late on Wednesday night, a...

29 Jun 2018 8:56 AM IST

As the girl resisted the rape attempt, the accused poured kerosene on her and set her ablaze. He fled the spot after the incident. (Photo: Representational)

In record 30 days, Odisha court sentences five accused to life for...

On May 2, a 14-year-old girl from Sasan town in the district was gang-raped by six people including a minor.

3 Jun 2018 11:52 AM IST

Among skilled occupations, aircraft assemblers, shoemakers and car upholsterers may have murderous tendencies (Photo: Pixabay)

Haryana: 4-year-old raped, stabbed to death, dumped in container

The accused, who was an employee at the victim's father's sweet shop, kept the container at his residence.

2 Jun 2018 9:23 PM IST

The school principal, on receiving the complaint, reviewed it and backed the FIR. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)

Six seniors sodomise, drug class 11 student of Ajmer's Mayo College

According to the FIR, the seniors forced him to do drugs and sodomised him in turns in his boarding school room.

2 Aug 2018 4:46 PM IST

The rape victims family has handed over the audio clip of the MLA to the local police and the SSP Upendra Agarwal has ordered a probe into the allegations.

2 men rape 15 yr-old Dalit girl in moving car in Haryana's Yamunanagar

Praveen and girl met each other through Facebook, after which Praveen started putting pressure on the girl to meet him,...

2 Aug 2018 2:07 PM IST

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Priests involving in rape cases in Kerala 'shocking', says top court

SC made these observations during hearing of a case involving rape of minor in a church by a Father in Malabar district...

1 Aug 2018 6:43 PM IST

The woman was sitting under a tree when Siva sexually assaulted her. She has been admitted to King George Hospital, police said. (Photo: Representational)

Boy sexually assaulted by three senior students in schoolbus

On complaint, teacher says he was 'so cute that anyone will tease him'

8 Aug 2018 4:38 AM IST

The advice came following the case of a British tourist who was gangraped by two men last month, who has been arrested and charged with extra-martial sex in Dubai. (Photo: File)

2 Thane men take minor out on 'friendship day', gangrape her

The accused, aged 18 and 22, took survivor on a two-wheeler to an abandoned room, near a fish hatchery in Dombivili and...

6 Aug 2018 7:25 PM IST

Demonstrators take part in a protest in Srinagar over the gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo: AFP)

Law allowing death penalty for rape of children cleared by President

The amendment replaces criminal law amendment ordinance promulgated on April 21 after Kathua's rape and murder and...

12 Aug 2018 5:48 PM IST

Death sentence in India is given to convicts only in the rarest of rare cases as ruled by the Supreme Court in the Bachan Singh vs. State of Punjab of 1980. (Representational image)

Thane court sentences man to 7 years in jail for kidnapping, raping...

Prosecution said when the 16-year-old girl left her house, the accused, kidnapped and took her to Alibaug in Raigad...

23 Aug 2018 11:01 AM IST

Unless the states act to bring investigation and trial to a close within four months of a rape incident as is envisaged now, the toughest laws on the statute books are unlikely to be deterrent enough to stop these barbaric crimes. (Representational image)

2 men rape 14-yr-old, attacked, chased away by her dog in Madhya...

The minor girl shouted for help and her pet dog reached the spot and bit one of the rapists on his leg.

21 Aug 2018 11:04 AM IST

The girl was raped inside a car on Thursday.

Teenage girl kidnapped, forced to drink alcohol, gangraped near Noida

Kidnapped by two men on her way home from sewing classes, she was raped and then dumped outside her house in Dastampur...

31 Aug 2018 12:24 PM IST