Considering the trauma that the minor rape survivor may face if she has to give birth to an unborn child, the Allahabad High Court on Friday permitted her to medically terminate her pregnancy, even if it crossed 20 weeks, the permissible limit given in Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971.
A 19-year-old Chhattisgarh youth allegedly asked his friend to rape his minor wife and later divorce her. According to complained registered by the kin of the victim, the accused husband Khilendra Sahoo left his wife with a friend in a hotel room in Kawardha, Chhattisgarh so that he could rape her.
The police said on Wednesday it arrested two persons late on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district for alleged rape of a minor. "Mohammad Iqbal and Babu Din, residents of Sadrota-Lohai village, were arrested yesterday evening for alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl in her home.
In a speedy judgment, a Bhopal court on Thursday awarded death sentence to a 35-year-old man for raping and killing a minor girl last month.
BJP leaders on Wednesday met Jaipur police commissioner Anand Shrivastav and demanded strict action against the accused who raped a minor on July 1. They also sought stringent action against those who tried to give the incident a communal tinge and smashed the window panes of around 100 vehicles parked on the roads.
A court in Balasore Wednesday awarded 10 years' rigorous imprisonment to a 20-year-old man for kidnapping and raping a minor girl in 2017.
The girl is severely injured and is undergoing treatment in a hospital in Jabalpur
Priests of Chilkur Balaji temple offered prayers by worshipping cows in Hyderabad on Sunday to control sexual assault cases against minors in India.
Locals created ruckus inside New Delhi's Maharishi Valmiki Hospital over rape of 4-year-old girl. The incident comes a day after junior doctors' in Kolkata called-off their strike over violence against doctors.
The minister said police have collected evidence against the accused. Mohare, who is in his mid-20s, lived close to the girl's home, Kamla Nagar police station in-charge Alok Shrivastava said.
A case has been registered under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the officer said.
Rajballabh Yadav was suspended from the party after his name surfaced in a chargesheet filed by Nalanda police in April 2016. He is alleged to have raped a minor at his residence on February 6, 2016.
The girl shouted for help and her pet dog reached the spot and bit Aishu Ahirwar on his leg. The accused attacked the dog with the knife but the dog continued to bark.
A shutdown called by the Left parties in Bihar on Thursday against the rape of 34 minor girls at a shelter home in Muzaffarpur district has hit rail and road traffic
Police completed the investigation in three days and filed a charge sheet on May 25. A total of 25 witnesses were presented before the court, a police official informed.
The girl was playing with other children outside her house when the accused, Pawan Raiger took her to an isolated corner and raped her, SHO Kanota Police Station Gaurishankar Bohara said.
The victims revealed during investigation that they were given sedatives before being sexually assaulted and whenever they complained to the woman about it, she would beat them up to silence them.
The brutality and inhumanity has once again brought the nation back to square one. It seems that there is no end to this shame.
It lists the caretaker of the Devisthan, a small temple, in Rassana village in Kathua, about 90 km from here, as the main conspirator behind the abduction, rape and killing.
angered over the incident, the Opposition parties, Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), Congress and the local residents demonstrated against the Manohar Lal Khattar led government, on the cremation ground in Uklana.
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