West Bengal news: Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose said that convincing and decisive action against the perpetrators on the part of the West Bengal government would help against heinous crimes.
The introduction of this Bill comes in response to the recent rape-murder of a woman medic at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, which has intensified calls for tougher measures against sexual violence.
Activist Pallabi Ghosh expressed frustration over the difficulty in lodging complaints for custodial violence unless survivors name perpetrators, highlighting a systemic barrier to seeking justice. "Only if you convict a police officer for custodial rape, we can hope for justice," she added.
Rape cases increased twofold in 2023 in Chhattisgarh compared to the previous year. Notably, 1,093 cases of rape were registered in 2021, 1,246 in 2022, and 2,564 in 2023.
There were a total of 31,878 rape victims across the country in 2021, the report from the Directorate of Economics and Statistics said.
The court said mere apprehension of the petitioner, which can be subjective, cannot become a ground for transfer of cases to the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) courts even though the offence does not involve provisions of the POCSO Act.
Delhi crime news: The non-heinous crime cases have increased by eight per cent during the same period, police data stated.
Rape cases in India: "Due to the law on the hanging of culprits after the Nirbhaya case, the incidents of murder after rape have increased. This is a dangerous trend being seen in the country," said Rajasthan CM.
Delhi crime: As per the data, 2,197 women have been kidnapped till now, way more than last year's 1,880 kidnappings for the first six months. For the whole year in 2021, the crime of kidnapping was faced by 3,758 women.
Pakistan has been suffering and battling a gender violence epidemic and violence against women cuts across classes in the country.
The gangrape case of a 17-year-old girl, while she was returning home after a party in the Jubilee Hills area of Hyderabad, has triggered political reactions across party lines.
Despite the public outcry during the Nirbhaya gangrape incident of 2012, not much has changed in rajasthan in terms of women’s safety.
At least thirty-one per cent of the total 3,137 rape cases in Delhi last year were committed against children, an NGO claimed. Reporting of major crimes has decreased in the past five years, a statement by the Praja Foundation stated.
An average of 87 rape cases were reported daily in 2019, latest government data has revealed. The data compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) showed an overall 4,05,861 cases of crime against women during the year, a rise of over 7 percent from 2018.
Over 160 rape cases have been reported on railway premises and on-board running trains between 2017 and 2019, an RTI query has found.
An 18-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and gang-raped in a moving SUV in Auraiyya district of Uttar Pradesh while a 14-year-old girl was raped by a youth in Bijnore district.
A raging debate has engaged people from all walks of life after news broke of the encounter on Friday morning of all four accused in the brutal rape-and-murder case of a 25-year-old woman veterinarian last month in Hyderabad.
"The condition of the girl who was set on fire and bought here at 10 am is very serious. She has 90 per cent burn injuries and we are taking utmost care. A team of doctors are observing her," Dr Ashutosh Dubey, medical superintendent of the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Hospital, told PTI.
They also videographed the incident, police said The girl narrated the incident to her mother the next day following which a complaint was lodged at an All Women police station.
Some 2,502 rape cases were registered in 2018 including 1,430 cases of sexual assault against minor girls, an average of four cases each day.
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