Patna, April 6 – In a major crackdown, the East Champaran police on Monday rescued 16 minor girls from the clutches of orchestra operators, allegedly involved in exploitation.Acting on complaints received from multiple police station jurisdictions across the Motihari district, police teams...
New Delhi, April 2 ‘Nata Pratha’, a custom in which girls are “sold” on stamp paper or through informal agreements in the name of marriage, has come under renewed scrutiny, with the Central Information Commission directing the disclosure of an action taken report submitted by the Union Ministry...
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Panaji, April 1 AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday alleged that the BJP and the entire state machinery in Goa are trying to protect the party councillor's son, who was arrested for allegedly raping several girls and circulating their obscene videos.Addressing a public meeting in the...
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Hyderabad, March 29 Two men have been arrested for allegedly attempting to sexually assault two minor girls in the Nirmal district of Telangana, police said on Sunday.The incident took place in Nirmal town on Saturday when the two men allegedly attempted to sexually assault the minor girls...
Thane, March 29 A man has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing two 10-year-old girls in Thane district, Maharashtra, police said on Sunday.Irfan Mashak Sheikh (23), a resident of Bhiwandi, was apprehended early Saturday morning in connection with the incident that occurred in the...
Panaji, March 27 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday sought to distance itself from a Goa councillor whose son has been arrested in connection with a sex scandal involving minor girls, stating that he was not a member of the ruling saffron party.Soham (20), son of Sushant Naik, a member...
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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...
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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...
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Panaji, March 24 The investigation into the alleged sexual exploitation of girls, in which the son of a BJP councilor has been arrested, has been handed over to the Crime Branch, a senior official of the Goa Police said.None of the victims have come forward to file a complaint against the...
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Mumbai, March 24 Congress Legislature Party leader Vijay Wadettiwar on Tuesday claimed that law and order had deteriorated in Maharashtra, citing a case of six minor girls going missing in the Chandrapur district.Raising the issue in the state assembly through an adjournment motion, he...
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...
Islamabad, March 18 – A leading organization advocating for minority rights has highlighted a disturbing trend of abductions and forced religious conversions of girls from minority communities across Pakistan between 2021 and 2025, during which 515 cases were recorded.Citing data from various...
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Lahore, February 27 A man has been arrested in Pakistan's Punjab province for allegedly raping three minor girls, police said on Friday.The suspect, identified as Tariq, is accused of raping three girls, aged between four and seven, in the Kasur district of Punjab, about 50 kilometers from...
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Mumbai, February 24 – The Maharashtra government informed the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday that a total of 45,662 women were reported missing in 2024, of whom 30,877 have been traced. In 2025, 48,278 women were reported missing, with 36,581 found so far.In addition, a total of 11,313 minor...
Thane, February 23 Two minor girls were rescued after a prostitution racket was busted in Navi Mumbai, a police official said on Monday.Following a tip-off about a man named Harish running a prostitution racket, the Navi Mumbai Crime Branch started an investigation on February 20, the official...
Itanagar, February 19 Police in Itanagar have busted an organized interstate child trafficking racket operating between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, rescuing three minor girls and arresting six people accused of trafficking, purchasing, and exploiting children as domestic laborers, officials...