Kolkata, March 12 – A civic volunteer has been arrested in Howrah on charges of allegedly molesting a teenage girl who later died by suicide, police said on Thursday.According to a senior police officer, the accused civic volunteer was arrested following the incident that took place in Amta...
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New Delhi, March 10 Rajya Sabha MP Ujjwal Deorao Nikam urged the government on Tuesday to consider providing limited administrative flexibility to courts handling cases under the POCSO Act, in order to address the psychological hesitation faced by some male child victims when giving evidence...
Prayagraj (UP), March 8 Ashutosh Brahmachari, who had filed a complaint alleging that Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati sexually exploited students at his ashram, was attacked by an unidentified person with a razor on a train here on Sunday morning, police said.Reacting to the incident...
Patna, March 6 – The mysterious death of a NEET aspirant in Patna has taken a more serious turn after the Bihar government amended its earlier notification and incorporated sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act into the case.With this amendment, the Central...
Krishnagiri (Tamil Nadu), February 28 A local member of the DMK youth wing has been arrested in connection with the alleged sexual assault and murder of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl in Krishnagiri district, police said on Saturday.The accused, identified as 40-year-old Periyanayagam, was...
Yadgir (Karnataka), February 27 – Self-proclaimed "godman" Mallikarjun Mutya, an accused in a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), has approached the Karnataka High Court on Friday seeking to quash the case registered against him.Mallikarjun Mutya approached...
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Nainital, February 24 The Uttarakhand High Court has quashed the proceedings in a POCSO case against a man, noting that the accused and the victim are now legally married, have a child, and that the woman wants to live with him.Continuing the trial or sending the accused to jail would disrupt...
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Prayagraj (UP), February 24 Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati moved the Allahabad High Court seeking anticipatory bail on Tuesday after being booked for alleged sexual harassment of minor children and other offenses.A notice has been sent to the office of the government advocate in this...
New Delhi, February 23 The Supreme Court on Monday struck down the critical observations made by the Madhya Pradesh High Court against a judge of a special court, stating that the "rash conclusion" accusing the judge of "intellectual dishonesty" was "completely unwarranted".The special court...
Lucknow (UP), February 22 An FIR has been registered in Prayagraj against Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and his disciple, Mukundanand Brahmachari, over allegations of sexual abuse of two individuals, including a minor, over the past year, including during the Magh Mela.This action follows...
Beed, February 21 A 15-year-old girl from the Beed district of Maharashtra, who survived the horrors of child marriage and domestic abuse, began a new chapter in her life as she appeared for her Class 10 exam, demonstrating her strong will to pursue what she truly values by breaking free from...
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Thane, February 20 A special court in Thane, Maharashtra, has acquitted a 37-year-old man accused of raping a minor girl, stating that the prosecution failed to prove that the survivor was a "child" and noting significant inconsistencies in her testimony.In the judgment dated February 12...
New Delhi, February 18 – The Supreme Court has overturned the controversial Allahabad High Court judgment that ruled that grabbing a minor’s breasts and breaking her pajama string did not constitute an attempt to rape.In dismissing the case, which included the criminal appeals filed by two...
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New Delhi, February 18 The Supreme Court has ruled that grabbing breasts and pulling a pyjama string constitutes "an attempt to rape," overturning a controversial Allahabad High Court order that said these were only "preparation to commit rape."A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and...
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Amaravati, February 16 A minor girl has allegedly been sexually assaulted by a relative in the Krishna district, following which the accused was arrested, police said on Monday.According to Gudivada DSP Dheeraj Vinil, the incident occurred on February 7 after the child's mother returned to her...
Jalaun (UP), February 14 An undertrial prisoner in the Orai district jail, involved in a POCSO case, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the prison toilet on Saturday, officials said.Manoj Kumar, 25, had been in judicial custody since March 2025 in connection with the case...
Jalaun (UP), February 14 A 25-year-old undertrial prisoner, held in the Orai district jail, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the prison toilet on Saturday, officials said.The deceased has been identified as Manoj Kumar, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district. He had...
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Nagpur, February 11 A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by three individuals in the Nandanvan area of Nagpur, Maharashtra, leading to the arrest of a 19-year-old man and the detention of two minor boys, police said on Wednesday.The crime occurred on Tuesday after one of the accused, who was...
Muzaffarnagar (UP), February 10 A teacher from a government primary school has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing two minor girl students in a village here, police said on Tuesday.The accused, identified as Satish Kumar, was arrested on Monday following a complaint filed by the...
Hyderabad, February 9 An eight-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by two of her relatives, one of whom is a minor, in the Jayashankar Bhupalpally district of Telangana, police said on Monday.Officials said the assaults occurred in separate incidents, one last week and the other on...