UP: 15-year-old Dalit girl set ablaze by jilted lover in Ballia
November 08, 2020 9:58 ISTThe victim was admitted to a hospital in Ballia but as her condition worsened, she was shifted to Varanasi for advanced treatment.
The victim was admitted to a hospital in Ballia but as her condition worsened, she was shifted to Varanasi for advanced treatment.
Two people have booked in connection with the alleged rape case of girls, including minors, in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Sunday.
The Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Friday passed the Andhra Pradesh Disha Bill 2019 also known as the Andhra Pradesh Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2019 to award death sentence for offences of rape and gang rape and expediting verdict in trials of such cases within 21 days.
Noting that incidents of rape and crimes against women are "unfortunate and highly condemnable", Prasad asserted that perpetrators of such "heinous" crimes will be punished expeditiously through the judicial process.
There should be no provision of mercy pleas for child rapists, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Friday as he called on the Parliament to consider a review.
Piloting the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2019, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said it aims at making offences against children gender-neutral.
Sealdah Additional Sessions Judge Jimut Bahan Biswas found Biswajit Dey guilty of rape of the 17-year-old girl and sentenced him to "undergo rigorous imprisonment for life for the offence punishable under Section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO) Act, 2012".
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi directed the directors and the authorities concerned of every state forensic laboratory to ensure that the existing and available FSLs function in an effective manner in analysing samples collected under the POCSO Act.
BJP lawmaker Harnath Singh Yadav, on Wednesday, blamed the content on TV and social media for the rise in sexual offenders during the debate in Rajya Sabha.
The Rajya Sabha today unanimously passed the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Amendment Bill 2019. The bill will amend the provisions of the POCSO Act 2012 and provide stricter punishments for sexual abuse on children. Under the new provisions, the minimum punishment for 'aggravate penetrative sexual assault' will be increased from 10 years to 20 years. The maximum punishment will be death penalty.
In possibly the first case after the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act was amended to provide for death penalty in cases of sexual offences against children, a special court on Thursday handed down capital punishment for a man convicted of raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl.
The Union Cabinet Wednesday approved amendments in the POCSO Act, which deals with crime against children, and included death penalty for sexual assault on minors, officials said.
In a shocking incident, a minor girl was gang-raped by six youth, including three minors, for a week in Andhra Pradesh's Ongole town, police said on Sunday.
The court's order came as it heard a petition filed by accused Ashwani, a self-claimed medical practitioner, demanding an investigation into the role of the three.
Briefing media persons after the Cabinet meeting, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government has approved the death penalty in aggravated sexual offences under the POCSO Act.
The head master of the government-run residential school at Sikhpalli was arrested today after a note was found in a notebook of the girl, Superintendent of Police Jagmohan Meena said.
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.
Social media is angry at Jacqueline Fernandez and Salman Khan for not respecting the boy's consent.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that his government amended the POCSO Act to introduce death penalty for the rape of children below age 12, to ensure justice to victim daughters of the nation.
President Kovind promulgates the ordinance to amend POCSO Act, Rajnath Singh call it a historic step
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