sexual assault

Palghar, March 27 A self-proclaimed religious figure from the Palghar district of Maharashtra has been arrested for allegedly raping a 35-year-old woman after claiming to be an incarnation of Lord Shiva, an official said on Friday.The woman mustered the courage to file a complaint against the...

Prayagraj, March 26 The Allahabad High Court has expressed serious concern over the lapses in the registration of a police case, noting that while the complaint mentioned rape, the FIR did not invoke the relevant sections related to it.The high court directed senior Uttar Pradesh Police and...

Amaravati, March 26 – Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and YSR Congress Party President Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, on Thursday, alleged that the state has become a 'Jungle Raj' where the police only exist in name, disappearing when tribal people, women, and the poor cry out for help...

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...

Mumbai, March 26 Two individuals were arrested in Ahilyanagar, and six have been booked in Nashik, Maharashtra, for allegedly circulating obscene videos of the female victims of self-proclaimed godman Ashok Kharat on social media, police said on Thursday.Kharat was arrested on March 18 for...

New Delhi, March 26 A Delhi court has convicted two men for attempting to commit culpable homicide, and for criminally intimidating and insulting the modesty of a woman, after it found the testimony of the defense witnesses to be lacking critical details and likely manipulated.Additional...

New Delhi, March 26 A court here has sentenced a 72-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor last year, stating that despite the victim addressing him as "grandfather," he exploited her to satisfy his lust.Highlighting the betrayal of trust and the erosion of...

New Delhi, March 26 The Delhi High Court has upheld the acquittal of a man accused of kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old girl, ruling that the horoscope and vaccination card were not proof of age and, therefore, he could not be prosecuted under the POCSO Act.A bench of Justices Navin Chawla...

Mumbai, March 26 Two people were arrested in Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra, for allegedly circulating obscene videos of the women victims of self-proclaimed godman Ashok Kharat on social media, a senior police official said on Thursday.Kharat was arrested on March 18 for allegedly repeatedly raping...

Sehore (MP), March 26 A 21-year-old college student allegedly cut her wrist in Madhya Pradesh's Sehore district, claiming that no action had been taken against a professor who had molested her, police said on Thursday.The incident occurred on Wednesday night, following which the victim, a...

Itanagar, March 26 Three individuals have been arrested from the districts of Tawang and East Kameng in Arunachal Pradesh in two separate cases of sexual assault on minors, police officials said on Thursday.The Superintendent of Police (SP) of East Kameng district, Kamdam Sikom, said that...

Mumbai, March 25 The Maharashtra Legislative Council unanimously passed the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (Maharashtra Amendment) Bill 2026 on Wednesday to include provisions in the Shakti Bill to protect the identities of acid attack victims and ensure imprisonment for online sexual advances.The...

New Delhi, March 25 – The Supreme Court on Wednesday strongly criticized the Haryana Police over its handling of a sexual assault case involving a 3.8-year-old child in Gurugram, observing that there appeared to be a “concerted and unwarranted attempt” to discredit the minor victim and downplay...

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...

Mumbai, March 25 – The Maharashtra Assembly passed the Bill presented by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to amend the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on Wednesday, effectively integrating the stringent provisions of the Shakti Act into the new national criminal code and incorporating two...

New Delhi, March 25 The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the anticipatory bail granted to expelled Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil in a case of rape and forced abortion against him.A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh, while dismissing the survivor's plea challenging the...

Kochi, March 24 The young woman, who gained fame during a religious festival in northern India last year, alleged on Tuesday that the director of her first film inappropriately touched her several times when she was a minor, and when she told her family about it, they did not support her...

New Delhi, March 24 The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the response of the Manipur State Legal Authority on appointing a legal aid counsel for the two women, who were allegedly paraded naked during the 2023 ethnic clashes in the state.A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice...

Mumbai, March 24 Eight FIRs have been registered by the police against self-proclaimed religious figure Ashok Kharat after receiving multiple complaints involving allegations of sexual assault, extortion, and the circulation of objectionable material, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis...

New Delhi, March 24 The Delhi High Court on Tuesday overturned the conviction and 24-year prison sentence of Geeta Arora, also known as Sonu Punjaban, in a case involving the alleged trafficking of a 12-year-old girl, and acquitted her of all charges.Justice Chandrasekharan Sudha also granted...