child sexual abuse

London, April 9 – British Conservative MP Katie Lam's call for a national inquiry into UK grooming gangs has exposed a scandal in which gangs of Pakistani-British origin systematically exploited vulnerable children – mostly white and Sikh girls – from the 1990s through the 2010s, devastating...

Madurai (Tamil Nadu), April 6 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Monday that there was a wave of change in Tamil Nadu in favor of the NDA, and the ensuing Assembly elections will see the DMK, which is "deeply entrenched in corruption and opposed to Tamil Nadu's age-old...

Hyderabad, March 31 A 19-year-old student was arrested here for allegedly sexually abusing a five-year-old girl, filming the act and uploading it online, officials said on Tuesday.The incident involving the minor girl came to light after the Child Protection Unit of the Telangana Cyber...

Hyderabad, March 31 – The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) rescued a five-year-old girl and arrested her cousin, who was sexually abusing her.TGCSB Director Shikha Goel said on Tuesday that they arrested a 19-year-old accused in a Child Sexual Exploitative and Abusive Material (CSEAM)...

New Delhi, March 31 The National Commission for Women took cognizance of a news report on Tuesday regarding the alleged rape of a six-year-old girl in Ghazipur district, Uttar Pradesh, and the delay in providing her medical treatment.Commission Chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar has written to the...

Panaji, March 28 Goa Congress chief Amit Patkar on Saturday claimed that the sex scandal involving the son of a councilor involves more than 100 minor victims, and that the police were initially reluctant to register a case.Soham (20), son of Sushant Naik, a member of the Curchorem Municipal...

Berhampur (Odisha), March 26 A POCSO court here on Thursday sentenced a man to death for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in Odisha's Ganjam district five years ago.Describing the crime as falling in the "rarest of rare" category, fast-track court judge Rohit Lal Panda delivered the...

New Delhi, March 26 – Spiritual leader Ashutosh Brahmachari Maharaj has moved the Supreme Court, challenging the anticipatory bail granted by the Allahabad High Court to Jyotish Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and his disciple Mukundanand Giri in connection with a...

Navsari (Gujarat), March 25 A 38-year-old man who lived with a woman was arrested for allegedly raping her two minor daughters from a previous marriage and impregnating one of them in Navsari district of Gujarat, police said on Wednesday.The accused, who had been in a live-in relationship with...

Panaji, March 25 Two minor girls have come forward to file complaints in connection with a case of alleged sexual exploitation, in which the son of a Goa BJP councillor has been arrested, police said on Wednesday.The Curchorem police in Goa's Kushavati district arrested Soham Naik (20), son of...

Panaji, March 23 The son of a councillor has been arrested in Goa for allegedly shooting and circulating obscene videos of local minor girls, police said on Monday.Superintendent of Police (South) Santosh Desai said the accused, Soham Naik (20), whose father is a councillor in the town of...

Sant Kabir Nagar (UP), March 21 A 24-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in this area, police said.The accused has been identified as Ravi Chaudhary.According to Circle Officer (Khalilabad) Amit Kumar, the action was taken based on a complaint lodged...

Beed, March 18 A 16-year-old boy has been detained for allegedly sexually abusing a minor girl in the city of Beed, in central Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday.According to police, the six-year-old girl was walking past the house of the accused when he offered her fruit and lured her. The...

Islamabad, March 16 At least 3,630 cases of child abuse were reported across Pakistan in 2025, representing an 8 per cent increase from the previous year, according to data released by a non-profit organization on Monday.Sahil, an Islamabad-based organization that monitors violence against...

Bhandara, March 11 A 54-year-old teacher at a school run by the Zilla Parishad (ZP) has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing female students in Classes 3 and 4 in Bhandara district of Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday.According to police, the incidents of sexual abuse took place...

London, March 11 A British-Pakistani man nicknamed "Killer" and his two younger brothers have been convicted 18 years after they sexually abused four children and a woman in northern England, the UK's National Crime Agency has said.Amar Ilyas, 41, Kamran Ilyas, 38, and Kamar Ilyas, 39, from...

Mathura (UP), March 10 (UP) A man who disguised himself as a religious figure has been arrested for allegedly having unnatural sexual relations with a 14-year-old boy here, police said on Tuesday.He was arrested after a video of the incident went viral on social media.The incident occurred...

Thane, March 10 Police have registered a case against a man for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl with a mental disability in Thane district, Maharashtra, officials said on Tuesday.The incident took place in the Bhiwandi area on December 12 last year, but the victim's mother approached...

Mumbai, March 9 The Bombay High Court on Monday described a father's claim that his minor daughter accused him of rape simply out of anger as "far-fetched".Upholding the man's life sentence, a bench of Justices Manish Pitale and Shreeram Shirsat dismissed his plea challenging a March 2020...

Sant Kabir Nagar (UP), March 8 A man was arrested, and two minors were apprehended on Sunday for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl in the Bakhira area here, officials said.The accused, identified as Abhishek, is around 20 years old, while the two minors are around 17 years of age, they said...