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BHUBANESWAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought action taken report from Mayurbhanj SP in two different cases related to sexual assault of two minor girls by cops of a police station in Mayurbhanj district.While an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police lived with a 16-year-old girl after his wife’s death, a home guard sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl from Jharkhand by posing...

MUMBAI: Observing that no Indian girl will make false rape accusation as if she is found to be false, she would be looked at with contempt through out her life and particularly for unmarried girl, it will be difficult to find a suitable groom, a special POCSO court convicted and sentenced a 21-year-old man to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting his friend, a 16-year-old girl from his...

BHIWANDI: Bhiwandi taluka police probing the gang rape of a 16-year-old involving seven accused nabbed one more person on Wednesday, taking the total arrests to five so far. Police said the accused will produced before the Bhiwandi court on Thursday. The seven accused include the girl's boyfriend who recorded a video of the crime and shared it with others. !(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function...

BHIWANDI: Police on Tuesday arrested four of the seven accused of the gang rape of a 16-year-old in Bhiwandi earlier this month while a hunt is on for the other three who are on the run. The main accused is the girl's boyfriend who had also recorded a video of the crime which he shared with his friends on a WhatsApp group.The accused are aged between 20 and 30 and most are school dropouts who do odd...

NOIDA: The father of a youth accused of raping and killing his cousin in 2016 had come up with a marksheet, showing his son was born on February 10, 2000, which meant he was 16 at the time of the crime, said Arun Kumar Gupta, a member magistrate at the Juvenile Justice Board. "He told the board his son had studied till Class VIII at a school in Kanpur. His date of birth, according to that document, was...

KOLKATA: Three employees at the Indian IT office of a global telecom major were arrested on Saturday for their involvement in the alleged gang-rape of a colleague during a party at a housing complex in New Town's Action Area III on Friday night. The 28-year-old survivor, who also lives in New Town, lodged a complaint at the Techno City police station on Saturday morning. DC (New Town Zone) Manav Singla...

RANCHI: A special CBI court in Ranchi sentenced the ex-husband of a national-level shooter to life imprisonment on Thursday under IPC Section 376 (2) (n) on charges of rape, fraudulent marriage and attempt to convert the religion of his then wife.A former registrar (vigilance) of Jharkhand high court was also sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiracy.According to the shooter, she had come to know...

NEW DELHI: A Delhi Police head constable has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman in the Mahendra Park area. The woman in her complaint alleged that the accused had lured her on the pretext of marriage but later refused to. According to the police, the accused cop has been identified as Balwinder. He is posted in the first Batallion. Police said the accused and the victim started speaking to each...

THANE: A Bhiwandi-resident was acquitted by a special POCSO court in Maharashtra's Thane in a rape case. The 28-year-old man was accused of abducting a Class IX girl on July 30, 2013 and raping her at his sister's house for three days. As per the prosecution, he had raped the victim in the houses of his kin in Bhiwandi and Shahapur as well. Her father filed a complaint with Padga police station in...

THANE: Nineteen years after a homemaker was raped, a rickshaw driver has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) by the district court in Thane. Additional Sessions Judge Dr Rachna R Tehra convicted the accused Ramashankar Shukla, 52, and imposed a fine of Rs 5,500. Prosecutor EB Dhamal, informed the court that the victim lived in Nerul in Navi Mumbai and the accused also resided in...