A case of rape has been registered after a 15-year-old girl with intellectual disabilities was found pregnant in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, an official said on Saturday.
The 40-year-old principal and 35-year-old guest teacher were booked on Saturday night under section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code, provisions of the...
The accused has been suspended by the school administration on the order of district collector Neeraj Kumar Singh, another official was quoted as saying.
Uttarakhand Police on Sunday arrested a 24-year-old man from Delhi for allegedly raping a girl in Pauri district, officials said. The accused, Ramlal (24), was arrested from Delhi's Nangloi area and is being brought here on...
Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani, who was hearing Zubair's plea to quash an FIR registered against him after he responded to the Twitter user who was using a picture with his minor daughter as display picture on the platform,...
The minor student has alleged that the accused teacher allegedly took her to an isolated spot in the school building during school hours, Friday and touched her inappropriately.
A two-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an unidentified person inside a residential society here, police said on Sunday. The victim sustained serious injuries in her private parts and was rushed to the civil hospital...
The alleged incident occurred on Sunday when the accused took the 15-year-old girl to a lonely spot and raped her. He also threatened to kill her if she told anyone about the incident, they said.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswas Sarma had on Saturday asserted that the drive to end the social menace would go on till the next assembly polls. According...
As the police said they have a list of 8,000 accused and the drive will continue, women protested against the move in various districts saying they will face...
The crackdown began early in the morning across the state and it will continue over the next three to four days, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma told reporters on the...
Based on the complaint by the victim, an offence was registered at Vishnunagar police station in Dombivli under sections 376 (D) (gangrape) and 506 (criminal...
Based on their complaint, police conducted a thorough probe and the three accused were held. According to police, the main accused identified as Al Ameer was...
Assam has a high rate of maternal and infant mortality and the primary cause is child marriage.
While dealing with the bail plea of the boy in the FIR registered at the insistence of the girl's mother, Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani said that prima-facie,...
BJP MP Sushil Modi on Monday said the government should come up with a legislation to fix the same marriage age for women of all religions.
The accused identified as Akshay Bari (20) abducted the girl from her village on November 21, Sation House Officer (Bansdeeh) Raj Kapoor said.
Twelve students were expelled by the Odisha college after a video went viral showing them ragging a college fresher to kiss a minor girl. Episodes of ragging...
Until the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act came into being in 2012, there was no law that addressed the issue of ‘rape’ of boys as...
As a result of the alleged rape victim's plea that she is now married to someone else, the Uttarakhand High Court has directed the closure of a 2020 POCSO case.
According to a Supreme Court ruling, DNA tests can only be treated as corroborative evidence and in cases where a negative test result favours the accused, the...
The special judge of a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act court in Mumbai, Jayshri R Pulate, sentenced the accused to ten years in jail on...
Doctors can perform abortions on minor females without being liable to disclose identity to police on the request of minors and their guardians.
In its charge sheet filed before a POCSO court in Varanasi, the Central Bureau of Investigation alleged that during searches, it recovered thousands of photos...
Lingayat seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru is in police custody in a case of alleged sexual abuse of two minor girls of his seminary's hostel.
