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Hoshiarpur: Taking suo motu cognizance of the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl by her school head in one of the government schools in Hoshiarpur district, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has directed the authorities concerned to expedite the investig
A day after the arrest of an attendant over the alleged sexual assault of a three-year-old boy, the playschool in Northeast Delhi was sealed on Monday following directions from Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, said officials. Police on Sunday said that a case under
A Pune court on Thursday sentenced a 24-year-old HIV positive man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a five-year-old girl in 2019. The police said the girl later contracted the virus
The testimony of a six-year-old rape survivor cannot be discarded merely because the child is unable to describe the sexual acts in detail, the Bombay High Court said on Monday, setting aside a trial court s acquittal of a 32-year-old man from Chhatrapati Samb
Upholding the five-year jail term handed out to a school teacher held guilty of sexually assaulting his minor student in 2016, the Delhi High Court said that a child s trust in a teacher is sacred . Justice Madhu Jain, while hearing the teacher s appeal agains
A special Pocso court in Etah on Monday sentenced a man accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy to 20 years imprisonment. The order was passed in the State versus Pushpendra alias Bhola case pertaining to an incident reported in the jurisdiction of Ra
Holding that the mother cannot legally settle or compromise a case against the father for sexual harassment or sexual assault of their minor daughter, the Kerala High Court has refused bail to a 50-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting his 17-year-old da
JHANSI Four police personnel, including the station house officer of Gursarain police station, were suspended on Tuesday, a day after a 62-year-old priest, arrested in connection with an alleged sexual harassment case (Pocso) involving a nine-year-old girl, di
The KSCPCR and Sree Narayana Guru Open University in Kollam will jointly launch certificate and diploma courses on child rights and laws concerning children, officials said on Monday. A memorandum of understanding between the two institutions will be signed an
For three months now, the woman who courted fame during the 2025 Mahakumbh Mela held in Uttar Pradesh and her husband have lived in fear, moving from one city to another in Kerala chased by allegations regarding their inter-faith marriage. The fear is closing
Quoting famous lines from the song of American singers Demi Lovato and DJ Marshmello titled Ok not to be Ok , the Sikkim High Court has upheld 10 years rigorous imprisonment of a man held guilty of the sexual assault of a minor girl who died by suicide in 2021
A 35-year-old man accused of stalking a 16-year-old girl in Telangana s Ranga Reddy district allegedly murdered six people on Friday night, including the girl, her mother, and her grandmother, before killing his own wife and two sons. The man was granted antic
The Telangana High Court on Thursday granted bail to Bandi Bhagirath, son of Union minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar, in a case of alleged sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl. The court granted bail in the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act cas
The court also imposed a fine of 51,000 on each convict after holding them guilty of gang rape under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act and the Indian Penal Code, said Vikram Singh, SHO, Hazratganj. The convicts were identified as Dadu
A special POCSO court in Panchkula on Wednesday sentenced a 29-year-old man to three years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for a 2019 sexual assault case involving two sisters. The court also imposed a fine of 10,000 on the convict
After recording the consent of a 23-year-old woman that she had married the man accused of her rape, the Meghalaya High Court has dropped the case against him. The court recorded that though she was a minor when she got into the relationship, she was now a mot
Trinamool Congress MP Saayoni Ghosh and MLA Ritabrata Banerjee, rebels challenging Mamata Banerjee s leadership of the Trinamool Congress, faced go back and chor slogans at Baruipur in West Bengal s South 24 Parganas, where they went to meet the family of an 1
A Delhi court has sentenced a 67-year-old security guard to 20 years rigorous imprisonment for raping a six-year-old girl, holding that courts must send a strong, deterrent message that rising offences against children shall not be tolerated under any circumst
New Delhi: The Delhi government will observe Child Safety Monththroughout Julyacross over 16,600 institutions, including 5,633 schools, 10,897 anganwadi centres and 88 child care institutions (CCIs). The month-long campaign aims to strengthen awareness of the
A 14-year-old rape survivor cannot be forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy merely because it has crossed 28 weeks, the Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled, holding that compelling her to give birth would lead to further trauma and violate her dignity, privacy a
A two-and-a half year old girl was allegedly raped by a 58-year-old man in Ghaziabad on Saturday morning, police said. The accused, a labourer, has been arrested
MUMBAI: A special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act court has acquitted a 31-year-old man in a 2013 case in which he, along with five juveniles in conflict with law, were accused of stripping, sexually assaulting and filming a 14-year-old
Just as the girls were beneath a flyover, crossing to the other side of a congested road, someone rammed into their scooter from behind. They turned around and saw a man on a bike, who proceeded to apologise
Coimbatore , The police on Wednesday filed a comprehensive 819-page chargesheet at a special local court against two men in connection with the abduction, sexual assault, and murder of a 10-year-old...
The Allahabad High Court recently expressed serious concern over what it described as a systematic denial of medical termination of pregnancy services and statutory protections to child rape victims...
A special court in Jalgaon on Thursday awarded a death penalty to a man for raping and murdering a 13-year-old tribal girl, followed by the murder of her two minor brothers and a sister in 2020.
The Gauhati High Court has recently acquitted two men accused of sexual assault and held that the survivor had not specified what she meant by bad deeds done to her and unless the word bad act is clarified, the word can have a host of meanings . A bench of jus...