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Prayagraj, March 31 A court here has sentenced a man to death for raping and killing an eight-year-old girl in 2024, officials said on Tuesday.In the verdict pronounced on Monday, Additional Sessions Judge (POCSO Court) Vinod Kumar Chaurasia also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on the convict...

Bhubaneswar, March 30 A special court for crimes against women and children (POCSO) here on Monday convicted a man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping a 13-year-old girl in August 2020.Saroj Kumar Sahoo, additional sessions judge, POCSO court, Bhubaneswar, pronounced the...

Latehar (Jharkhand), March 28 A court in Latehar district of Jharkhand sentenced six people to life imprisonment on Saturday for the gang rape of a minor.The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge (Second) cum Special Judge (POCSO), Sanjay Kumar Dubey, sentenced Kariman Ganjhu (38)...

Berhampur (Odisha), March 26 A POCSO court in Odisha's Ganjam district on Thursday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and murdering his minor sister-in-law three years ago.Additional district judge-cum-judge of the POCSO court, Pranati Pattnaik, pronounced the verdict after...

Kushinagar (UP), March 25 A local court in Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday awarded the death penalty to a 22-year-old man for raping and murdering a minor, delivering the verdict in a swift trial under the POCSO Act.Additional Sessions Judge/Special Judge (POCSO Act)...

Ballia (UP), March 24 A 19-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 16-year-old girl and raping her for about eight months after taking her to Nagpur, Maharashtra, police said on Tuesday.According to police, the accused, identified as Mukesh Rajbhar, a resident of Urdaini...

Banda (UP), March 20 A 16-year-old girl has been found to be seven months pregnant after she was allegedly raped in the Mahoba district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Friday.According to the Kul Pahad Kotwali police, a case was registered on Friday based on a complaint from the minor. The...

New Delhi, March 17 A man has been arrested for allegedly raping a six-year-old girl from his neighborhood in southwest Delhi's Chhawla area, police said on Tuesday.The incident came to light after the minor narrated the alleged events to her mother, who subsequently approached the...

New Delhi, March 16 A Delhi court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting and murdering a 11-year-old boy in 2019, stating that he needed to be dealt with firmly due to his criminal mindset.Additional Sessions Judge Amit Sahrawat, however, refused to award the...

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...

Bengaluru, March 10 A Karnataka court has sentenced a 25-year-old man to 40 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl with physical and mental disabilities in the Belagavi district.The accused, Dhareppa alias Dheeraj Angata Khanase, illegally entered the girl's house while her...

Pakur, March 7 Three individuals have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a girl in the Pakur district of Jharkhand, police said on Saturday.A search is underway to apprehend the remaining three accused in the case, they said.The incident took place on February 17, but the FIR...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), March 2 A 57-year-old "ojha" (traditional healer) is alleged to have raped a minor girl at her house after performing rituals to cure the victim's brother in a village in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, police said on Monday.The "ojha," who had previously served a...

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), March 1 Two men allegedly gang-raped a minor deaf and mute girl who had come to attend her cousin's wedding in a village under the Singahi police station area here, officials said on Sunday.One of the accused has been arrested, they added.The incident came to light when...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), February 28 A man was arrested on Saturday for killing a four-year-old boy in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, a senior officer said.Sub-Divisional Police Officer (Sadar Chaibasa) Bahaman Tuti said that the accused, identified as Devendra Bodra of Ulidih village...

Mumbai, February 24 A special court under the POCSO Act here has acquitted four men accused of gang-raping a mentally disabled girl, citing a lack of reliable evidence.Additional Sessions Judge Ashwini D Lokhande, in the verdict delivered on February 5, ordered the immediate release of the...

New Delhi, February 24 A Delhi court on Tuesday convicted a man for sodomizing and murdering a 11-year-old boy in 2019, stating that the prosecution had proven the charges against him beyond any reasonable doubt.Additional Sessions Judge Amit Sahrawat was hearing the case against the accused...

Jaipur, February 24 – Police have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a 13-year-old girl who was on her way to take her Class 8 board examination in a village in the Bikaner district of Rajasthan.On February 21, the minor left her home around 12:15 p.m. to go to a nearby...

Jaipur, February 23 The Rajasthan Assembly witnessed heated exchanges between the treasury and opposition benches on Monday, leading to a walkout by Congress MLAs over the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in the Bikaner district.Raising the issue through an adjournment motion...

Varanasi (UP), February 23 Days after being booked under the POCSO Act over allegations of sexual abuse of two persons, including a minor, Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati said on Monday that he will not oppose his arrest, even though "the public is watching everything".Speaking to...