Tag: Rape

A Licence to Violate: Chhattisgarh HC’s ruling on marital rape exposes a legal travesty’

By extending the marital rape exception to unnatural sexual offences, dismissing a dying woman’s testimony, and ignoring Supreme Court precedents, the Chhattisgarh High Court has delivered a judgment that strips married women of their right to bodily autonomy

After statement before the magistrate by survivor, police adds gang rape section to the case registered

The survivor has alleged that the motorcycle borne men had carried out the offence at gunpoint, recorded a video of her after the rape and saved her number to blackmail her 

Horrifying instances of rape in MP and Mahrashtra, accused booked under POCSO

Reports of two minors have been raped have emerged from Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain and Mumbai’s Jogeshwari.

South Mumbai: 18 year old girl found dead in her hostel room, rape alleged

The accused, Om Prakash Kanojia, a watchman at the hostel, died by jumping in front of a running train after allegedly committing the said crime

UP: Four rapes reported in four days

Of the four crimes, three were committed on minor girls

Varanasi: Martial arts teacher allegedly rapes Dalit girl

The incident comes close at the heels of bodies of two Dalit sisters being raped and murdered in Lakhimpur Kheri where their bodies were found hanging from a tree

Lakhimpur Kheri: Postmortem confirms Dalit sisters were raped before murder

The bodies of the sister were found hanging from a tree on Wednesday, six arrested so far

Statewide protest call over police inaction against rape accused Karnataka seer

Dr Shivamurthy Murugha SharanaruBengaluru: Dalit and student organizations and...

Karnataka HC refuses to drop rape charges against husband

“If it is punishable to a man, it should be punishable to a man albeit, the man being a husband,” observed the court

Hyderabad-based techie arrested for threating Virat Kohli’s infant with rape

Ramnagesh Srinivas Akubathinihad reportedly changed his Twitter handle and pretended to be a Pakistani user

Crimes against women highest in Uttar Pradesh: NCRB 2020 report

 49,385 cases of crimes against women have been registered in UP; report has revealed that 2020 has seen a rise in crimes against SC/ST members

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