A Special Court in Pathankot on Monday convicted six people for the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua last year. It pronounced a life imprisonment of 25 years to three -- temple priest and mastermind Sanji Ram, Deepak...

Three persons, including a woman, have been arrested after a woman in central part of the city alleged that she was gang-raped after being lured with a job offer, police said on Saturday."The 22-year-old woman filed a complaint against three men and two women...

A woman, who was gang raped and physically tortured by her former husband and his friends, died on Friday in Jharkhand's Jamatra district, police said.Her first husband, who had inserted a wooden stick in her private parts after raping her, has been arrested,...

A four-year-old girl was raped and then strangled to death in Etah district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Friday after her body was recovered from a cattle shed.The victim went missing from her bed on Thursday night, her uncle complained to the police.A...

The CBI has registered a case against self-styled godman Daati Maharaj on charges of raping and having unnatural sex with an inmate of his ashram, the agency said on Friday.Daati Maharaj alias Dati Madan Lal Rajasthani has been named in a CBI FIR along with...

A 100-year-old woman was brutally raped allegedly by a 20-year-old youth in the middle of the night in West Bengal's Nadia district, the police said on Wednesday."The incident took place on Monday night. Argha Biswas alias Abhijit was caught by the family...

A 39-year-old cab driver was arrested here for raping a 5-year-old schoolgirl, police said on Tuesday.The victim, on Monday, narrated her ordeal to her mother who lodged a complaint with the Shahbad Dairy Police Station in Rohini, where the family resides....

A woman was allegedly gang-raped brutally in a secluded area in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, police said on Sunday."The homemaker of Madhyapara area was alone when two persons, Parimal Rai and Ratnu Munda, took her away and raped her on Saturday...

A gang-raped Class 9 student was seriously injured on Friday after she leapt from a building and landed on high voltage wire in Bihar's Lakhisarai district, triggering mob violence, police said.The victim was battling for life after jumping from the roof...

Rape convict self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was on Friday granted bail by a Panchkula court in a castration case, but he will remain in jail as other cases are pending against him.Ram Rahim, who is serving a 20-year sentence in Rohtak's Sunaria...

US television host Padma Lakshmi has said she was raped at the age of 16, but kept silent as she feared fingers would point at her for bringing it upon herself.The 48-year-old Top Chef host, wrote a piece for the New York Times published on Tuesday, where...

A court in Haryana has sent two of the main accused in the gang rape case of a 19-year-old college student to four days police custody, police said on Monday.The Haryana Police's Special Investigating Team (SIT) on Sunday arrested the two main accused,...

Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who has been arrested for raping a nun and presently in police custody after his bail plea was turned down, was brought to a convent near here on Sunday where the assault took place.He was taken to the convent at Kuruvelengadu in a convoy...

The Haryana Police's Special Investigating Team (SIT) on Sunday arrested the two main accused in the Rewari gang-rape case.The accused, Pankaj and Manish, were on the run for almost two weeks. They were arrested from Satnali in Mahendragarh district.The...

The Kerala Police began questioning Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun, for the third consecutive day on Friday, even as demands for his arrest grew.Mulakkal has been accused of repeatedly sexually abusing the nun between 2014 and 2016. Nuns...

The Kerala Police on Thursday began questioning Bishop Franco Mulakkal accused of raping a nun for the second consecutive day.On Wednesday, the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Jalandhar, Punjab, was questioned for seven hours near here at the Crime...

The principal and two other officials of a boarding school here in Uttarakhand were arrested on Tuesday after a Class 10 girl student accused them of suppressing the matter of her gang rape by senior students in August, police said.Four students of the school...

Three persons accused in the gang-rape of a board examination topper last week continued to elude Haryana Police on Sunday as two others were arrested in the case and Rewari SP Rajesh Duggal wasreplaced by Rahul Sharma.Even as police said they were raiding...

Haryana Police continued the hunt for the culprits involved in the gang-rape of a board topper, with no arrests made even four days after the gruesome crime.Police sources said on Sunday that raids were being conducted at various locations to arrest the three...

Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who has been named in a sexual abuse case by a nun, got a breather from the Kerala High Court on Thursday as it said "arrest is not the issue".Expressing satisfaction in the ongoing probe, the court observed that since it was an old...

Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested five persons involved in “gang rape and murder” of a minor girl who was found dead on weekend after remaining untraced for ten days in Uri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.Those arrested...

Taking cognizance of a plea filed by an accused claiming to be a juvenile in the Kathua rape and murder case, the Punjab and Haryana high court issued a notice to the Jammu and Kashmir government asking it to file a reply by August 30.In his revision petition,...

A 35-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by three persons on the pretext of job in Odisha's Jajpur district, police said on Sunday.Three people brought the woman on the pretext of giving a job and gang-raped her on Saturday evening and dumped her near...

The 37-year-old electrician, accused of raping a 6-year-old girl studying in Class 2 of a New Delhi Municipal Corporation school, was suspended along with the headmistress here on Friday.The electrician had committed the crime after talomg the child inside...

A minor girl has alleged that she was raped by her neighbour and as a result she has now delivered a baby in a hospital here, police said on Wednesday.The 16-year-old victim, who hails from Bihar's Chhapra, was living here with her family in the Rajiv...

A tribal youth in Manipur found guilty of raping and murdering a four-year-old was sentenced to death on Tuesday.The sentence against David, 23, was pronounced by A. Noutuneswori in the district court in Senapati district.The convict allegedly raped and...

A bill that provides for stringent punishment, including death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below 12 years, was passed by the Lok Sabha on Monday.The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2018 was passed after a reply by Minister of State for Home...

All eight accused involved in the elopement of a teenager and her subsequent rape and confinement have been arrested, including her boyfriend and two human traffickers, police said on Sunday.Accused Abhishek, 18, Ravi, 32, Rinki, 30, Rohit, 22, Mukesh, 25,...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over the probe into the alleged rape of minors at a government-run shelter home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur, an official said on Sunday.According to police, as many as 34 girls housed in the Balika Grih shelter...

Two persons were sentenced to death by trial courts in Madhya Pradesh in separate cases of rape of children below the age of 12, a lawyer said. The trial lasted for only five and 13 days in the two cases.Lawyer Somvir Yadav, who represented a victim in one...

As many as 34 minor girls housed in a shelter home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district have been raped as against earlier figure of 29, police said on SaturdayMuzaffarpur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Harpreet Kaur said: "It was not 29 but 34 girls...

A 19-year-old was Saturday sentenced to death for raping a seven-month-old baby in Rajasthan this year, police said.According to Director General of Police O.P. Galhotra, this comes as the first death sentence in Rajasthan after the state assembly brought...

The 29 years old accused, who had raped 8 years of girl on June 27, 2018, has been arrested today.  Identified as Vicky son of Shankar the accused is a resident of Gali No 5 Hardev Nagar Bathinda. Giving this information here today the IG Bathinda Mr...

In a case with harrowing echoes of the crime in Jammu and Kashmir s Kathua an 8-year-old was raped and then murdered in Etah district of Uttar Pradesh police said on Tuesday.The victim had gone to attend a wedding with her family where she went missing...

A girl was gangraped by eight youths in Ranchi, police said on Monday. The police have arrested seven youths involved in the crime and the eighth youth is absconding.According to the police, a girl was walking with her boyfriend in Dhruva locality of Ranchi...

A woman, who has accused Arunachal Pradesh Chief Pradesh Pema Khandu of raping her in 2008, on Saturday said she will approach Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind to seek justice.The Arunachal Pradesh woman has taken the decision...

A 15-year-old girl, who had gone to answer nature's call, was gang-raped in Jharkhand's Chatra district and later burnt to death, police said on Friday.According to the police, when the teenager of Humajang village of the district had gone to answer nature's...

In a major breakthrough, Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Crime Branch of police have arrested a 28-year-old SPO in connection with the ‘rape’-and murder of Kathua nomad girl Asifa Bano.Top sources in the government told news agency GNS that the SIT...

Just over a year after a powerful blast in a car in Maur Mandi town left seven persons dead, Punjab Police was said to be close to cracking the case and hinted at a connection with controversial Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.Police...

The Punjab Education Department on Friday suspended a government school Principal and two teachers on charge of moral turpitude after the rape of a Dalit girl student by two of them in a school in Jagraon last year came to light."Those placed under suspension...

A Class 8 girl, who battling for her life for a week after she was gang-raped and then set on fire, died in a hospital in this Madhya Pradesh district on Thursday, police said.The 15-year-old victim, who had been admitted to the Medical College Hospital,...

Five years after 23-year-old Nirbhaya was brutally raped and murdered by five men on December 16, earning Delhi an epithet of "rape capital" of India, has the national capital become any safer for women? Crime data doesn't suggest so and females who live...

Shocking people across India, two minor girls were sexually abused in two schools in Kolkata and Jharkhand's Koderma, allegedly by a principal and two teachers, with all three being arrested on Friday.A school principal was booked on the charge of raping a six-year-old...

 Shocking people across India, two minor girls were sexually abused in two schools in Kolkata and Jharkhand's Koderma, allegedly by a principal and two teachers, with all three being arrested on Friday.A school principal was booked on the charge of raping a six-year-old...

A school principal was arrested on charges of raping a six-year-old girl in Jharkhand's Koderma district.According to police, S. Xavier, Principal of Tilaiya Public School, was arrested after the girl's father filed a complaint against him at the Tilaiya...

After a nail-biting suspense of 18 months, it was all over in barely five minutes for the three convicts in the sensational Kopardi rape-cum-murder case of a 15-year old schoolgirl at the Ahmednagar District and Sessions Court on Wednesday.Special Judge Suvarna...

A Special Court on Wednesday awarded the death sentence to all three accused convicted in the rape and brutal murder of a 15-year-old schoolgirl in Kopardi village in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district in July 2016.Jitendra alias Pappu Babulal Shinde, 26,...

A woman was allegedly gang raped and murdered along with her husband in Jharkhand's Latehar district on Friday, police said.According to police, unidentified people barged into the house of 32-year-old Kirtu Bhuiya, gang raped his wife and later hacked...

Despite getting CCTV footage from a gas station of the accused, the Chandigarh Police was on Saturday yet to make any arrest in the gang-rape case of a 22-year-old woman.The victim, who is admitted in a government hospital, was allegedly gang-raped by three...

A 10-year-old girl was gangraped here many times in the last few months by three men, who took the help of a woman to lure her each time. The four have been arrested, police said on Friday.Jahangirabad Superintendent of Police Bhartendu Sharma told IANS...

Close on the heels of sensational Koraput gang-rape case, a group of miscreants allegedly gang-raped a college student in presence of her fiance in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said on Tuesday.Six persons have been arrested for their suspected involvement...

The Chandigarh Police have registered a case of rape after a complaint from a girl that she was sexually assaulted by a man while returning home after attending the Independence Day function at her school here on Tuesday, police said.The victim, aged 12-13...

The number of rapes reported each year in Delhi has more than tripled over the last five years, registering an increase of 277 per cent from 572 in 2011 to 2,155 in 2016, according to data released recently by the Delhi Police.The year after the Nirbhaya...

Five men gang raped two minor girls in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Monday. A manhunt is on to nab the accused.The girls, aged 14 and 15 years, were gang raped on Saturday night when they went out to answer nature's call in a field, the victims said in a...

A 35-year-old woman was picked up from Gurugram in Haryana and allegedly gangraped in a moving car. She was later dumped in Greater Noida area of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning, the police said.The assault took place in the National Capital Region, apparenetly...

An autorickshaw driver hailing from Uttar Pradesh has been arrested for the gang-rape of a young woman and the killing of her infant daughter in Gurugram district in Haryana, police said on Wednesday.Gurugram Police admitted to lapses on the part of police...

A family from South Kashmir’s Shopian district Wednesday staged a protest here in Srinagar alleging that culprits responsible for the ‘abduction and rape’ of their 16 years old girl are roaming free while police have been doing nothing to track them. Muhammad...

Taking suo motu cognisance of a brutal gang-rape in Haryana -- reminiscent of the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case in Delhi, the National Commission for Women has sought a fair and speedy trial in the case, its Chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam said on Sunday."We...

In a savage gang-rape reminiscent of the 2012 Nirbhaya incident, a young woman from Haryana's Sonepat district was abducted and brutally raped and murdered, with her head and face smashed with a blunt object and crushed under the wheels of a vehicle. Two...

Gujarat gang-rape survivor Bilkis Bano on Monday said that after 15 years of indescribable struggle she is preparing for a new beginning after last week's court ruling, and urged that the 11 men convicted by the court should not be granted parole.She hailed...