sexual assault

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...

Relevance: RushSubject: POCSO CaseCategory: CrimeHandwara Police secures conviction in POCSO caseThe Jammu & Kashmir Police in Handwara has successfully secured a conviction in a POCSO case registered under FIR No. 69/2021 at Police Station Kralgund.Srinagar, March 24: In a significant...

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...

Mumbai, March 24 The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating cases against self-proclaimed godman and rape accused Ashok Kharat has uncovered assets worth Rs 1,500 crore and 100 objectionable videos, a senior police official said on Tuesday.With the discovery expanding the scope of the...

Indore, March 24 A doctor has been arrested for allegedly raping a 30-year-old woman under the guise of providing treatment and threatening her with objectionable photographs in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, sparking outrage in the district, police said on Tuesday.Following the doctor's arrest on...

Thane, March 24 Police have registered a case against a 58-year-old man for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl in Thane district, Maharashtra, officials said on Tuesday.The accused is alleged to have committed the crime between December 2023 and February of this year, after luring the victim...

Mirzapur (UP), March 23 A court here on Monday sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment in a rape case involving a woman with hearing impairment, police said.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 60,000 on the convict.On March 28, 2018, a complaint was lodged at the Chunar police...

Mumbai, March 23 Senior Congress MLA in Maharashtra, Vijay Wadettiwar, demanded HIV tests for all individuals who came into contact with Ashok Kharat, a self-proclaimed religious leader from Nashik, who has been arrested on charges of rape.Speaking in the assembly, the leader of the Congress...

Garhwa, March 23 A 27-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping and killing a teenage girl in the Garhwa district of Jharkhand, police said on Monday.The arrest was made on Sunday after a month of investigation and interrogation of around 600 people, they said.The incident took...

Nashik, March 23 Two more cases have been registered in Maharashtra's Nashik district against self-proclaimed religious leader Ashok Kharat, who was arrested on March 18 after a woman accused him of repeated rape over a period of three years, a police official said on Monday.The new cases are...

Muzaffarnagar (UP), March 23 A teacher at a madrasa was arrested on Monday for allegedly sexually assaulting an 11-year-old student in the town of Shahpur in the district, police said.According to police, the incident came to light after a video of the alleged act surfaced on social media...

Mumbai, March 23 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Monday that the police acted proactively in arresting self-proclaimed spiritual leader Ashok Kharat, who is accused of raping a woman in Nashik.Initially, several women were reluctant to come forward and file complaints, but...