Rape News

Jharkhand High Court denies relief in 30-year gang rape sentence, orders probe into ashram

Two gang-rape accused shot in leg in Ghaziabad police encounter

Hoshiarpur: Taking suo motu cognizance of the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl by her school head in one of the government schools in Hoshiarpur district, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has directed the authorities concerned to expedite the investig

The two men accused of allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl inside a moving bus had been hired without police verification. In fact, none of the drivers and conductors working for the private bus service had undergone police verification, The Indian Express has

Delhi Police has written to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) seeking an expedited examination of biological samples collected from a sleeper bus in which a 17-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped in Greater Noida, as investigators prepare to pursue the c

Actor Swara Bhasker has revisited the controversy surrounding her open letter to filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali after the release of Padmaavat in 2018. Speaking at an event hosted by the India International Centre (IIC) in Delhi, Swara recalled why she was di

Bhumi Pednekar has reacted strongly to the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl inside a moving sleeper bus in Delhi-NCR. The disturbing incident has once again put the spotlight on women s safety and the security lapses on private buses, with the National Human

Four men named as accused in an FIR have been detained for questioning in connection with the death of a 21-year-old Dalit woman, who was allegedly kidnapped, raped and murdered before her body was dumped in an open well at Hokrani village in Sirwar taluk of K

A Pune court on Thursday sentenced a 24-year-old HIV positive man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a five-year-old girl in 2019. The police said the girl later contracted the virus

The Delhi High Court recently acquitted a man sentenced to life imprisonment for the sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl, observing that merely because there is an observation of the trial court about the survivor becoming uncomfortable and perturbed when she

According to police, the woman lives in Powai with her husband and an elderly relative. The couple have been married for four to five years and don t have children

The Karnataka High Court Tuesday refused to quash an alleged rape case against a 28-year-old man who claimed that the sexual relationship with the complainant was consensual, holding that whether consent was given or forcibly obtained was a disputed question o

The testimony of a six-year-old rape survivor cannot be discarded merely because the child is unable to describe the sexual acts in detail, the Bombay High Court said on Monday, setting aside a trial court s acquittal of a 32-year-old man from Chhatrapati Samb

Former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh was arrested in Odisha on Thursday over his alleged involvement in the hurried cremation of the doctor who was raped and murdered at Kolkata s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in 2024, police said.Ghosh, the former

A woman was allegedly gang-raped by a group of at least six men after the car in which she was travelling with a friend was stopped late on Tuesday night in Odisha s Cuttack district, said police. The incident occurred on Cuttack-Chandbali road when the victim

A recent Delhi High Court ruling ordered the release of two life-term convicts, quoting lines on life imprisonment from Anton Chekhov s famous short story, The Bet. Justice Anup Jairam Bhambani quoted Chekhov s work as saying, Capital punishment kills a man at

In an incident that has raised questions over women s security in the densely populated Zirakpur area, a 16-year-old girl on way to school was allegedly abducted, taken to an undisclosed location and gangraped by three unidentified men. What s shocking is the

Mumbai Police have arrested Bollywood filmmaker Shakeel Noorani after a 33-year-old aspiring actor accused him of raping and threatening her, officials said on Monday. The 73-year-old accused was traced to his farmhouse in Mahabaleshwar hill station, located m

The Ahmedabad City Police after 1 am on Monday (August 10), confirmed that they had shot and injured the man who had been arrested on Sunday for allegedly raping a 23-year-old design student on the terrace of the building where she lives on rent. The incident

The prime accused in the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Bulandshahr was killed in an encounter in the Gulaothi area in the early hours of Sunday, barely 24 hours after police announced a reward of 50,000 for information leading to his arrest, officia

A 23-year-old student of interior design was allegedly raped by a security guard on the terrace of a housing society in Ahmedabad late on Saturday (August 8) evening, police said on Sunday. The woman, who lived in a rented apartment in the housing society alon