A woman and her daughter were raped while they were unconscious in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh last week. This incident took place while the woman along with her husband and children was sleeping in a room when the accused attacked them. The accused has been identified as Nasiruddin attacked the family on November 24.
In its initial days, the Press Information Bureau's fact-checking unit has shot down a claim doing rounds on WhatsApp that a new law has been passed allowing a potential rapist to be killed, terming it as "fake news".
The priest had allegedly raped 14-year-old tribal girl on the pretext of teaching her the Bhagavad Gita. The incident had occurred in Reddivaripalli in Kadapa district on November 27.
Over the years India has witnessed the most heinous of rape crimes. Gangrape, murder, minors gang-raped... it just goes on and on. When the news breaks, we protest, we cry for justice but then after a few days, it is business as usual, until another barbaric incident hits the news. Will the recent agitation against the brutality against Hyderabad doctor change India?
A 70-year-old woman was raped by a drunk neighbour, late on Sunday night in Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh. The accused Ram Kishan (27) has been arrested and sent to jail.
In a gruesome incident akin to the Hyderabad veterinary doctor killing, a girl was shot dead and burnt after being allegedly raped in Kukudha village of Bihar's Buxar district on Monday night, police said on Tuesday.
Over 15 lakh people from across the country have signed petitions on change.org in the last four days seeking justice for the 27-year-old veterinarian who was brutally raped and murdered in Hyderabad.
A woman was allegedly gang raped by two persons including a policeman inside a police quarter in Odisha's temple town of Puri on Monday. Police said the woman lodged a complaint saying a man, who identified himself as a police personnel, offered her a lift in his car while she was waiting at a bus stand in Nimapara town.
A court in Punjab's Sangrur district on Monday awarded life imprisonment till death to a private school bus conductor for raping a four-year-old girl in May this year.
A truck driver who allegedly raped and murdered a six-year-old girl in Tonk district of Rajasthan was arrested on Monday. Mahendra alias Dholu had taken the girl from her school to an isolated area on the pretext of giving toffees on Saturday and committed the crime, police said.
After the heinous gangrape and murder of a veterinarian, the Hyderabad Police has issued an advisory listing out precautionary steps to be taken by women. From Hyderabad to Delhi, people are out on the streets demanding justice for the girl and demanding stricter laws for the safety of women.
India is outraged as shocking details of a brutal gangrape and murder of Hyderabad veterinary doctor emerges. India's defence minister Rajnath Singh today asserted that the government was ready to make strictest laws to stop such crimes in future.
Local people thrashed the accused Jawahar Vaidya, tied his hands with a rope and paraded him naked on streets before handing him over to the police, an official said.
Often around us, we see girls say 'it is not safe to go out in the night' or 'let's get back inside at a decent time'. The question is who decides decent? Who decides when a girl should go out and when she should come back inside the house? Is it fair to let this 'self-retrospection' of safe surroundings become the new norm wherein this becomes something which every girl in this country learns to live with?
The steps have been initiated in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a woman veterinary doctor in the city on November 28. The burnt body of the veterinary doctor was found at Shadnagar outskirts in Telangana's Ranga Reddy district.
The charred body of an unidentified woman, in the 20-30 age group, was found in Chhattisgarh's Balrampur district on Sunday. The body was recovered from a forest near Gopalpur Murka Dam under Rajpur police station limits after a shepherd spotted it.
Another brutal case of rape has emerged in Rajasthan's Tonk district. A 6-year-old girl has been found allegedly raped and strangled to death with her own school belt on Sunday, police said. Earlier, the girl had gone missing on Saturday, after a complaint was registered, her body was recovered from bushes in a remote area near her village Khetadi. Liquor bottles, snacks and bloodstains were also found at the spot, police officials said.
"I have been so deeply disturbed by the savage rape and murder of the young veterinarian in Hyderabad and the teenage girl in Sambhal that no words are enough to express my outrage. As a society, we have to do far more than just speak up when these horrific incidents take place," Priyanka Gandhi added.
The last phone call made by the woman veterinarian, who was gang-raped and murdered near the Outer Ring Road on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Wednesday night, helped the police crack the case.
This is the third arrest in the case. Two persons, including a minor, were arrested on Thursday, a day of the incident took place, the police said.
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