April 21, 2026

rape

‘Shameful to summon 3-year old’: Supreme Court slams Haryana Police for ‘insensitive’ handling of child rape case | India News – The Times of India

‘Shameful to summon 3-year old’: Supreme Court slams Haryana Police for ‘insensitive’ handling of child rape case | India News – The Times of India

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The SC rapped Haryana Police and its child welfare committee for insensitive handling of three-year-old’s rape case. The Supreme Court of India has strongly criticised the Haryana Police and the state’s Child Welfare Committee for their handling of a three-year-old rape survivor’s case, calling their approach “insensitive” and “shameful.”The court took serious exception to the…

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Police vehicle driver, 4 others gang-rape teen in Chhattisgarh | India News – The Times of India

Police vehicle driver, 4 others gang-rape teen in Chhattisgarh | India News – The Times of India

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RAIPUR: A 19-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by five men, including a driver attached to the state police’s Dial-112 emergency response system, in Korba district of central Chhattisgarh. The driver and another accused have been arrested, police said Saturday, adding teams were searching for the remaining suspects. The alleged assault occurred late Jan 8 in…

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50 years after her rape changed law, ‘Mathura’ lives in hunger | Nagpur News – The Times of India

50 years after her rape changed law, ‘Mathura’ lives in hunger | Nagpur News – The Times of India

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Unable to read and write, and with her fingerprints not registering due to age, Mathura can’t access welfare schemes GADCHIROLI: More than five decades after her rape inside a Maharashtra police station sparked protests across India and forced the rewriting of the country’s sexual assault laws, the woman known to the world only as ‘Mathura’…

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‘Police, political pressure’: Satara woman doctor’s suicide gets murky, kin makes big claim; cop suspended | India News – The Times of India

‘Police, political pressure’: Satara woman doctor’s suicide gets murky, kin makes big claim; cop suspended | India News – The Times of India

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NEW DELHI: A police sub-inspector in Maharashtra’s Satara district has been suspended and arrested, along with one civilian, after a woman doctor died by suicide and accused them of rape and harassment. Satara District Police registered a case against PSI Gopal Badane and another man, Bankar, under charges of rape and abetment to suicide. “The…

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Even slight penetration is rape, consent irrelevant for minors: HC | India News – The Times of India

Even slight penetration is rape, consent irrelevant for minors: HC | India News – The Times of India

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NAGPUR: The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court recently ruled that even the slightest penetration constitutes rape and that consent is irrelevant when the survivor is a minor, reaffirming the absolute nature of protection under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.Dismissing the appeal of a 38-year-old driver from Hinganghat in Wardha district,…

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‘No credible evidence’: Supreme Court acquits man on death row for girl’s rape-murder; police made accused a ‘scapegoat’ | India News – The Times of India

‘No credible evidence’: Supreme Court acquits man on death row for girl’s rape-murder; police made accused a ‘scapegoat’ | India News – The Times of India

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NEW DELHI: Observing that courts cannot yield to public sentiment and external pressures and punish an accused merely on moral convictions or conjectures, the Supreme Court set aside on Wednesday the conviction of a man on death row for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in Chennai in 2017. It said that the…

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Repeat offender: UP man gets life term for child rape; 9 years after conviction in similar case that SC overturned on technicality | India News – The Times of India

Repeat offender: UP man gets life term for child rape; 9 years after conviction in similar case that SC overturned on technicality | India News – The Times of India

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NEW DELHI: An Uttar Pradesh man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a seven-year-old girl — nine years after he was convicted in a similar case and later acquitted on technical grounds by the Supreme Court, a lawyer said on Saturday.Additional district judge (POCSO Act) in Shravasti, Nirdosh Kumar, on Friday found Chhotkau…

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