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...