The incident occurred when the girl was returning home from a wedding with her friends. The police have registered a case under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and POCSO Act.
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released its annual crime report. In 2022, there were 4,45,256 cases of crime against women, an increase of 4% from the previous years.
The police registered a case under various sections of the IPC including under the POCSO Act in Mumbai. The accused father was arrested and sent to five-day police custody.
Uttar Pradesh: The accused also made a video of the entire episode and posted it on social media, which went viral on Saturday.
Uttar Pradesh: On the complaint of the teen girl's father, a case was registered against the accused, police said.
The attacker wounded six other people other than a teenage girl and a teacher and shouted, “You are all going to die!” The police however killed him in an exchange of fire.
The accused and the boy's parents were working as construction labourers. Vijay and Amar have confessed to the crime and said they killed the boy to gain "prosperity". All of them were living in the same slum, police said.
A day after the toddler went missing from his home, police found his body in a flooded drain in Punjabi Bagh.
His (Rahul Gandhi) tweet violates sec 23 of POCSO Act & sec 74 of Juvenile Justice Care & Protection of Children Act that prohibits revealing the minor's identity. He revealed identity of child's family & is using the issue for his political agenda: Sambit Patra
A 24-year-old man was arrested and a minor was detained on Thursday for allegedly killing a 15-year-old boy at Bapgaon in Kalyan tehsil of Thane district.
The Uttar Pradesh government has sentenced 23 accused to life imprisonment in the past 24 hours, in connection with cases of crime against women and children.
"Other interesting aspects were that the accused in 94 per cent of penetrative assault cases under POCSO Act were known to victims while 99 per cent of victims were girls. Further, over 40 per cent cases were reported from Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu," the CRY said.
In a report submitted to the court, senior advocate V. Giri, an amicus curiae in the PIL registered by the court under the title "In re Alarming Rise in The Number of Reported Child Rape Incidents", said: "A short clip intended to spread an awareness of the subject in general, namely, prevention of child abuse and prosecution of crimes against children, should necessarily be screened in every movie hall and could also be transmitted by various television channels at regular intervals."
A four-month-old boy died after his drunk father slammed him on the ground following an argument with his wife at a village in the district.
A minor girl was raped inside the Fort William, Indian Army's Eastern Command headquarter and the accused was arrested, police said on Wednesday.
A man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl in outer Delhi area, officials said Tuesday.
Member of Lok Sabha from this seat Pragya Singh Thakur on Sunday expressed grief over the incident of abduction and killing of an eight-year-old girl here in Madhya Pradesh, and has directed to take strict action against the accused.
"Raja sodomised the students who used to go to his home for tuition classes. He made video clippings of the crime and had been asking the students to bring money for him," the counsel of one of the victims, Aslam Khan said.
Opposition Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal said law and order have broken down in the state.
A government school teacher in Madhya Pradesh's Jhabua district has been arrested and remanded in 14-day judicial custody by a court here for allegedly directing some students to slap their classmate 168 times for not completing her homework.
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