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Head constable suspended for misbehaving with rape victim’s parents in Jhajjar
Five-year-old daughter of migrant labourers from Madhya Pradesh was kidnapped, raped and murdered allegedly by a fellow labourer in Haryana town
Published on Dec 23, 2020 03:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | HT Correspondent
Aunt asks rape victim not to reveal crime, held with 2 men in Panchkula
Naveen Sharma (29), Jatin (27) and the paternal aunt (26) of the minor were arrested under the POCSO Act after the victim’s grandmother filed a complaint with the police
Updated on Nov 22, 2020 10:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Panchkula | HT Correspondent
Rape victim set ablaze by accused’s family in UP’s Bulandshahr dies in Delhi hospital
In her dying statement, the girl accused Sanjay, uncle of the rapist, and other family members of setting her on fire.
Updated on Nov 18, 2020 05:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Meerut | S Raju
Campaign underway in UK against rising rape cases in India
Called RapeFreeIndia UK, the group said its members are non-political and include women of Indian origin, including professionals working in the civil service, IT and medicine. It raised over £2000 from a crowd-sourced online platform for the campaign.
Updated on Nov 17, 2020 02:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times, London | Prasun Sonwalkar
NCRB’s 2019 crime statistics: Homicides down, rape on the rise in Himachal
As many as 1,833 violent crimes were reported in the state in 2019 as compared to the 1,861 cases reported in 2018.
Updated on Oct 05, 2020 12:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Naresh K Thakur, Dharamshala
Sexual assault on 3-yr-old in Kharar: Cousin sent to reformation home for 3 years
Childline had received a call from the victim’s mother about the sexual assault on the girl in May 2019
Published on Mar 14, 2020 01:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mohali | Shailee Dogra, Mohali
30-year-old rape victim dies in Andhra
Deputy police superintendent K V V N V Prasad cited the preliminary probe in the case and said the woman had left her home on Tuesday night after her two daughters went to sleep.
Published on Jan 24, 2020 12:50 AM IST
Hindustan times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
‘Come after you get raped’: Woman alleges UP cops refused to act on complaint
A woman in Hindupur village, the same place where the rape victim had been set on fire on Thursday, alleged on Saturday that the police had refused to file her complaint of attempted rape.
Updated on Dec 08, 2019 10:19 AM IST
Unnao | Indo Asian News Service
Acid thrown on rape victim by four for refusing to withdraw case
Explaining why the woman filed the complaint in the court instead of approaching police, the sources in the department said woman had earlier lodged the complaint with the police.
Updated on Dec 08, 2019 08:25 AM IST
Muzaffarnagar | Press Trust of India
Day after giving birth, rape victim disowns baby
The woman, who had got married in July this year, had accused one of her relatives of raping her
Published on Nov 11, 2019 10:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent, Rohtak
24-yr-old rape victim commits suicide in Uttar Pradesh
The woman’s family said that they had gone to their field to fetch fodder when the woman allegedly committed suicide on Saturday..
Updated on Oct 07, 2019 06:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Muzaffarnagar | HT Correspondent
15-yr-old rape victim delivers stillborn in Ludhiana, accused held
The 15-year-old rape victim, who was found six months pregnant on Sunday, gave birth to a stillborn child at the civil hospital on Monday. The victim’s pregnancy had come to light on Sunday after she complained of stomachache. Her parents took her to the hospital for check-up, following which she was admitted for abdominal pains.
Published on Sep 30, 2019 11:11 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Ludhiana
Kotkhai custodial death: Accused IG was present at crime scene, testifies his driver
After the custodial death of one of the accused in the Gudiya rape case, a trial was initiated at a CBI special court in Chandigarh, after it was transferred from the Supreme Court
Updated on Sep 04, 2019 12:44 AM IST
Tanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh
CBI records statement of Unnao rape victim in road accident case
The victim, hailing from Unnao, has alleged that Uttar Pradesh MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar had raped her in 2017 when she was still a minor.
Updated on Sep 02, 2019 12:46 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
19-year-old rape victim’s parents give away newborn to sanitary worker
The matter came to light after the victim approached police to lodge a rape complaint against her uncle
Updated on Aug 24, 2019 10:19 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Ludhiana
Rape victim, 13, commits suicide over police inaction, harassment by neighbours
Taking stern view of the incident, senior superintendent of police (SSP) Anant Deo suspended four cops, including the station house officer, a sub-inspector and constables of Raipurva police station for negligence of duty.
Updated on Aug 11, 2019 12:03 AM IST
Kanpur | HT Correspondent
Cops trained to deal with POCSO cases
During the workshop, chief judicial magistrate and secretary of DLSA Narender Singh explained the legal procedures to be followed while registering cases under this Act and during the course of the investigation.
Updated on Jul 27, 2019 05:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gurugram | HT Correspondent
Ready to work with Centre on law and order: CM
The Aam Aadmi Party government is installing around 2.8 lakh cameras in two phases — 1.4 lakh in each phase. The government has planned to install 1.4 lakh cameras by November in the capital.
Published on Jul 08, 2019 04:47 AM IST
New Delhi | HT Correspondent and PTI
Ayushmann Khurrana fights for rape victims at the cost of his job in new Article 15 promo. Watch video
In a new promo, Ayushmann Khurrana, who plays a cop in Article 15, says he will fight for justice, even if it means getting arrested.
Updated on Jun 26, 2019 05:58 PM IST
Indo Asian News Service | Indo Asian News Service
Rape victim hangs self over ‘police inaction’
Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Ashok Kumar Tripathi said the woman was found hanging inside her house in Dataganj and her body had been sent for post-mortem examination.
Updated on Jun 18, 2019 12:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | HT Correspondent
Review: The City and the Sea by Raj Kamal Jha
In Raj Kamal Jha’s new novel, a boy in search of his mother sets out on a journey where the borderline between the real and the imagined is tenuous and flimsy
Updated on Jun 15, 2019 09:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vrinda Nabar
After #MeToo, Japan sexual abuse survivors seek reform in rape-law through #WithYou
Holding flowers and placards with slogans such as “#MeToo, #WithYou”, sexual abuse survivors recounted their experiences to show the need to scrap a measure they say puts too high a burden on rape victims.
Updated on Jun 12, 2019 11:17 AM IST
Tokyo, Japan | Reuters
Protests in Kashmir after minor’s alleged rape by neighbour
Angry villagers assembled in the main markets of Sumbal and Shadipora to protest against the minor’s rape allegedly by a neighbour on May 8 at Tarigam Sumbal in Bandipora.
Published on May 12, 2019 08:50 PM IST
Srinagar | Ashiq Hussain
New UK rules over rape victims’ digital data spark criticism
Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman said Monday that the issue was “complex” and police would conduct impact assessments on the forms.
Updated on Apr 29, 2019 08:58 PM IST
London | AFP
Rape in cab: 2 days on, Mohali call centre employee recalls two hours of horror
The victim, who is from Himachal Pradesh and resides and works in Mohali, said the accused offered to give her a lift around 9:20am and she managed to escape around 11:15am on Monday.
Updated on Apr 17, 2019 10:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mohali | HT Correspondent
AIIMS may get dedicated unit to help rape victims
Six rapes and multiple molestations are reported in Delhi every day, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data for 2016.
Updated on Mar 09, 2019 08:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Annona Dutt
Govts’ views on sexual attack victims ‘outdated’, Shakti Mills rape convicts tell HC
The Union and the Maharashtra governments’ views on rape victims are “outdated and violative of constitutional principles”, the three death row convicts in the Shakti Mills gangrape case Tuesday told the Bombay High Court.
Published on Mar 05, 2019 08:23 PM IST
Mumbai | Press Trust of India
Kin of Lucknow rape victim allege police favouring accused
The said incident occurred on Saturday evening in a village under Jaitpur police station of Barabanki. According to the girl’s family members, she went to her farm in the evening where three men from a nearby village pulled her to a secluded place and gang-raped her.
Updated on Jan 15, 2019 09:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | HT Correspondent, Lucknow
Rape victim commits suicide after accused gets clean chit in UP’s Gonda
In September last year, the victim and her husband had attempted self-immolation outside Vidhan Bhawan in Lucknow to highlight her plight.
Updated on Jan 15, 2019 07:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Chandan Kumar
Intimidation, family pressure: When child rapists walk free due to hostile witnesses
Intimidation, pressure by family members, panchayats are forcing rape victims, most of them minors, in Haryana to turn hostile.
Updated on Dec 30, 2018 02:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Aneesha Bedi