sexual assault

Thane, March 16 A 15-year-old tribal girl was allegedly abducted from Bhiwandi in the Thane district and "sold" to a man under the guise of marriage in the Beed district in the Marathwada region, leading to the registration of a case against her "husband" and five others, police said on Monday...

Pilibhit (UP), March 15 A 17-year-old boy has been booked for allegedly sodomizing an 11-year-old in a village here, police said on Sunday.The police have registered a case under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO)...

Ballia (UP), March 15 Police have arrested a 24-year-old man in the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh on charges of raping a 25-year-old woman under the guise of marriage, a police official said on Sunday.According to police, the woman alleged in a complaint that Krishna Rajbhar (24), from...

Dehradun, March 15 Police have arrested a young man and apprehended two minor boys in connection with the gang-rape of a 14-year-old girl in Dehradun district, officials said.The crime took place on Thursday in a forest area near the Haridwar Bypass, according to police.The action was...

Dehradun, March 14 Police on Saturday arrested a young man and apprehended two minor boys in connection with the gang-rape of a 14-year-old girl in Dehradun district, officials said.The crime took place on Thursday in a forest area near the Haridwar Bypass, according to police.The action was...

Beed, March 14 Two men are on the run after a case was registered against them for allegedly sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in Beed district, Maharashtra, police said on Saturday.The incident took place in the Parli Vaijnath tehsil about three months ago, an official said.According...

Beed, March 14 A minor girl was abducted from her home, sexually assaulted, and left unconscious at a village community center in Beed district, Maharashtra, a police official said on Saturday.The incident took place on March 10 when the victim, who is married, was at her house with her...

Chennai, March 13 Tamil Nadu has become an "unsafe state" for women and children, and the ruling DMK has shown no concern for its people following a series of incidents, TVK leader Aadhav Arjuna alleged on Friday.Arjuna, General Secretary of the actor-politician Vijay-led Tamilaga Vettri...

Thrissur (Kerala), March 13 A 49-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Kerala court on Friday for repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor girl during her school holidays in 2019, police said.The Chavakkad Fast Track Special Court sentenced Unnimon, also known as Vinod, to life...

Pilibhit (UP), March 13 A self-proclaimed godman was arrested on Friday for allegedly raping a 23-year-old woman, claiming he was giving her medicine to help her conceive a son, officials here said.The accused, Bhagwandin, a resident of Balrampur village, had reportedly been practicing...

Ballia, March 13 A 36-year-old man has been arrested on charges of allegedly raping a married woman in the Bairia area here, police said on Friday.According to police, efforts are underway to arrest the accused, identified as Pankaj Thakur.Police said the incident occurred on the evening of...

Jhansi, March 12 A local court on Thursday sentenced a 30-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 25,000 for raping a college student in the Kotwali area of the city in 2022.After the trial, the court of Additional District Judge-II, Anubhav Trivedi, found the...

New Delhi, March 12 A private tutor in north Delhi's Burari is alleged to have sexually assaulted three minor students over nearly two years, threatening them with dire consequences, including circulating AI-generated obscene images and harming their family members if they spoke about the abuse...

Chennai, March 12 There has been a significant decline in the number of crimes reported in Tamil Nadu since 2021, although certain sections are creating the impression that crime rates have been rising in recent months, the state government said on Thursday.Whether the cases involved sexual...

Mangaluru (Karnataka), March 12 A fast-track special court here has sentenced a 50-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a minor girl.The convict, identified as Abubakkar, was booked by the Bantwal Rural police station under Sections 64(1) (rape) and 351(2)...

Chennai, March 12 – TVK President and actor-turned-politician Vijay and BJP leader Annamalai launched a strong attack on the ruling DMK government on Thursday, raising concerns about women's safety in Tamil Nadu following a series of violent crimes reported across the state in recent days.In a...

Thane, March 12 A fast-track court in Maharashtra's Thane district has sentenced a 34-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy nearly seven years ago.In his order of March 7, Judge V A Patravale also imposed a fine of ₹31,000 on Vicky, also...

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...

Kanpur (UP), March 11 A special court here has acquitted an Indian Air Force personnel accused of molesting his minor sister-in-law after she revealed that the alleged incident was only a dream and her raising an alarm was a misunderstanding, officials said.The court also directed that...

New Delhi, March 11 The Supreme Court has stayed the execution of the death sentence awarded to a man, who was convicted for sexually assaulting and murdering a five-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh in 2024.A three-judge bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and N V Anjaria...