A 19-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by three men after attending a Navratri event in Panwadi area of Uttar Pradesh's Mahoba district, police said on Thursday.
The accused -- Gurpreet Singh and his grandfather Surjit Singh -- have been arrested on charges of murder, rape and other relevant sections of the IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, they further said.
As per the complaint lodged by the 26-year-old victim on Monday, her colleague touched her inappropriately and repeatedly raped her for nearly a year after threatening to make her video viral on social media, an official said.
The alleged incident occurred in May and it came to the knowledge of the district judge after a period of five months. Even the prison warden "did not have the courage to report" the matter to the higher authorities, the NHRC said in a statement, quoting reports.
Police said that the boy was allegedly murdered and three persons, who committed the crime despite receiving Rs 8 lakh ransom from his family, have been arrested.
A youth in Meerut district attacked his father and slashed his neck with a knife when the latter asked him not to play PUBG, a Chinese gaming app which has been banned by the Centre, police said on Monday.
A Dalit woman was allegedly raped at gunpoint by two men, including a former village head, in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh. Although the incident took place a week ago, the police were informed about it on Sunday.
A man has been held in Mankapur area of Nagpur for allegedly killing his friend for not making egg curry for dinner, police said on Sunday.
A BJP leader was shot dead in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad on Friday. Bike-borne assailants had opened fire at DK Gupta outside his shop late last night.
A 12-year-old tribal girl was suspected gangraped and murdered in Jharkhand's Dumka district on Friday, following which Chief Minister Hemant Soren asked officials to take strict action in the case.
A senior executive of Century Rayon was attacked with a knife allegedly by a disgruntled worker inside the company premises near Thane, leaving him injured, police said on Friday.
Additional Superintendent of Police R S Gautam said the post-mortem examination has confirmed that the woman was raped before she was strangled.
In a horrific act, a man in Telangana decapitated his wife and placed her severed head at the doorstep of a man she was allegedly having an affair with.
The accused have been identified as Santosh Behera and Rakesh Rout. The two were apprehended within 24 hours of reporting of the offence, said Police Commissioner Sudhanshu Sarangi.
A 35-year-old woman, who was allegedly locked inside a toilet for over a year by her husband in Rishpur village, was rescued by Women Protection and Child Marriage Prohibition Officer Rajni Gupta along with her team.
A 17-year-old girl, who ran away after a fight with her parents, was taken to a poultry farm in Odisha's Cuttack by a man who offered to drop her home in his motorcycle and allegedly gang-raped over 22 days, police said on Wednesday.
A senior official of the Armed Police Training Centre at Dergaon in Assam was arrested for allegedly raping a woman constable trainee, a police officer said on Wednesday. Panesar said the accused is currently employed as the Chief Drill Instructor of the Armed Police Training Centre. "The police are probing the incident and will proceed as per the law," he added..
The accused in the acid attack on three minor Dalit girls in Gonda district has been arrested. The arrests were made on late Tuesday night. The accused, Ashish, was arrested following an encounter with the police personnel in the Huzurpur area.
A Dalit teenager, who was allegedly gangraped, committed suicide on Tuesday in this district of Uttar Pradesh, officials said. Chitrakoot Superintendent of Police (SP) Ankit Mittal said the 15-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging herself in her house in a village in the Manikpur area.
A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her relative in Sasni area of Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, a month after the gangrape of a Dalit woman from the same region shook the nation and triggered protests.
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