NEW DELHI: A day after refusing to hear a plea challenging the Allahabad high court’s ruling, which stated that “grabbing a minor girl‘s breasts, breaking her pyjama strings did not amount to rape or an attempt to rape,” the Supreme Court on Tuesday took cognisance of the ruling on its own.A bench of Justices B…
Relief for BJP’s Yediyurappa. NEW DELHI: Karnataka high court on Friday provided interim relief to former chief minister and BJP central parliamentary committee member BS Yediyurappa in a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case, staying the summons that required his personal appearance before the First Fast Track Court on March 15.Justice Pradeep Singh…
RAJKOT: A court in Dhoraji town, in Gujarat’s Rajkot district, found a 22-year-old man guilty of raping a 14-year-old girl despite his DNA not matching her fetus; the conviction was based on other evidence and the survivor’s statement.At the same time, the court, in its recent order, also ordered the Rajkot SP to conduct a…
BELAGAVI/KOLHAPUR: A girl who had filed a sexual harassment case against a bus conductor under the Pocso Act in the Belagavi ticket row over language last week, sought on Tuesday to withdraw the complaint. Her parents insisted they “too are fans of Kannada” in a bid to ease the flare-up across the border.The bus conductor,…
BENGALURU: A police constable in his late 30s has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor who sought assistance after being raped by her neighbour on the pretext of marriage.“In Dec last year, the girl and her mother approached Bommanahalli Police, alleging that the neighbour had been harassing the teen for marriage. The girl hadn’t…
MUMBAI: Bombay HC has upheld the sentence of a dismissed Lt Col to five years of imprisonment under Pocso Act for sexual assaulting and sexual harassing an 11-year-old girl. “The statement of the prosecutrix-minor girl inspires confidence… Her instinct of identifying a bad touch of the petitioner must be believed,” said a bench of Justices…
MEERUT: A 16-year-old Dalit girl, abducted and raped in a moving car in UP’s Moradabad Tuesday night, identified the accused, Mohd Rashid, 30, through an ID card he had left on the car’s dashboard, police said on Saturday. The accused was arrested on Friday evening after the survivor narrated the incident to her family, who…
BENGALURU: Paternal consent for the adoption of a child born out of rape is inconsequential and immaterial, Karnataka high court said while ruling in favour of a teenage sexual assault survivor who had been refused official permission to legally give her baby to a couple, reports Vasantha Kumar.“When the natural guardians of a child are…
KOLKATA: Technology that helps decipher grainy CCTV footage better, coupled with limping gait of a suspect, helped police arrest a man who raped a seven-month-old infant in north Kolkata last Friday, reports Dwaipayan Ghosh. Police Wednesday, arrested suspect Rajib Ghosh, 34, alias Gobra from a resort in Gopiballavpur in Jhargram, where he worked as a…
NEW DELHI: A probe into a 15-year-old boy’s suicide revealed that a 26-year-old sales executive allegedly committed sexual assault and harassed him, according to Pune Police on Wednesday.“The investigation showed that an unidentified person had sent messages to the boy threatening to make his photos and videos public. Police tracked down the accused,” a police…