Teen gets 10-yr jail for raping 80-yr-old

Indo-Asian News Services, Updated: Jan 31, 2012 22:17 IST

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday wanted the legislature to redefine the offence of rape while sentencing a youth to ten years in jail for assaulting an 80-year-old woman last year. 

"This case sounds a wake-up call for Indian legislators to step in and think about having a re-look at the definition of rape so as to specifically include the instances of digital rape/male rape and make the offence gender neutral or to formulate a separate exhaustive legislation covering all categories of cases of sexual assault similar to legislations abroad," said Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau. 

The court, which convicted the youth for committing the offence of unnatural sex, termed the assault of the destitute old woman as an incident covered in the category of "digital rape" and sought recasting of laws to include such incidents. 

Such offences be made "gender neutral", it said while holding 19-year-old Pahlad guilty of abduction, forcing the woman into an illicit intercourse against the order of the nature, attempt to murder and digital rape. 

Terming the case as an "eye opener", the court said it was time for the legislature to take a serious note of the extent of depravation which exists in Indian urban society, victims of which are usually children and senior citizens being easy targets. 

The judgement came in a case of "digital rape" of an old woman by Pahlad on the intervening night of May 19-20 last year when she was sleeping in a shed in a park at Tri Nagar here. 

The convict asked the victim to accompany him. On being refused, he forcibly took her to bushes in a nearby park and sexually assaulted her with a wooden stick. 

The police said the elderly victim had been abandoned by her family and she used to live in Tri Nagar where local residents who used to give her food. 

It said that on the following morning after the incident, some passerby saw the unconscious woman in a critical condition and took her to the hospital. 

The court said there is a need for a re-look at the existing law and for inclusion of "digital rape" within the definition of rape. 

"There is growing demand the world over for inclusion of digital rape/male rape within the definition of rape and the fact that it is cases like the present one which sometimes reflects the institutional helplessness in appropriately dealing with the crime on account of the lag in law," it said. 

It also directed Delhi government to pay a compensation of Rs 50,000 to the victim who is living in an old-age home at Dwarka and directed the amount should be used for her welfare as she requires constant medical assistance. 

The judge said the penal provision for unnatural offence, to a large extent, cover cases of offence committed against order of nature but technically its applicability was limited and by operation it becomes difficult to include certain category of cases where the offence has been committed by the offender with an object. 

"It is only to cover all kinds of penetrations without a person's consent in any manner that the need for a re-look at the existing laws has been necessitated," the court said. 

It said the cause of such sexual assault could be the "X-rated material easily available in market and on internet". 

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Jan 30, 2012: Godman arrested on rape charges

PTI | Jan 30, 2012, 10.54PM IST

NEW DELHI: A 54-year-old 'tantrik' was arrested here for allegedly raping a devotee who had approached him for treatment, police said on Monday.

The incident took place in Govindpuri last Saturday and the arrested has been identified as Pandit Nand Lal Chaturvedi.

Chaturvedi is also the priest at Shiv Shakti Hanuman Mandir. He along with his family resides at the temple constructed by his father. The accused is engaged in occultism since 1985.

The victim claimed that she was suffering from pain in her left hand and sought the help of the tantrik in November last year.

"In December, one day she was called by him to meet him at his house. He asked the complainant to close her eyes. After some time she opened her eyes and found the pandit enchanting and gradually, she lost her consciousness.

"The pandit took over her two gold bracelets and cellphone. Later she gained consciousness and found herself without her clothes. The tantrik threatened her if she complained to police that she was raped. On this complaint a case was registered," Additional Commissioner of Police (South-East) Ajay Chaudhry said.

Chaturvedi was arrested on Saturday from his house.

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Jan 30, 2012: Teacher asked girl students to dance, caned them in classroom

NDTV Correspondent, Updated: Jan 30, 2012 18:11 IST

BHOPAL: A school teacher in the tribal Betul district of Madhya Pradesh asked students to fetch liquor for him and then caned the girls, forcing them to dance in a closed classroom on Republic Day. The teacher, Mahesh Malviya, has been suspended and an inquiry ordered against him.

This shocking incident came to light when 30 school children from Deochowki village in Betul and their parents reached the district collector's office on Saturday complaining that Malviya handed Rs 30 to a 10-year-od tribal student, and asked him to fetch a bottle of country liquor from the nearest outlet.

The class V student walked half-a-km to buy the liquor bottle. Malviya then poured the drink in a glass, locked the door of the classroom, and asked the girl students aged between seven and 11 years to dance for him. When the girls did not dance satisfactorily, he caned them.

Showing injury marks on their bodies to the Betul district collector, the girl students said, "Masterji beat us because we could not dance. He also shut the door and we could not run away. Then we climbed out of the window and ran to hide in the forests.''

Betul collector Chandrasekhar Borkar confirmed the incident. "Students and their parents complained about the incident. We have ordered an inquiry and found the allegations to be true,'' he told TOI.

During inquiry it was found he was also accused of rape in 2008, when he was posted in Peepaldhana Government School in Bhagoli village also in Betul. District Congress chief Shashi Rajput said, "It's amazing how such a man was reinstated as a teacher. We demand a criminal case be registered against the teacher.''

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Jan 29, 2012: Minor girl dies after being raped and set on fire

Press Trust Of India, Updated Jan 29, 2012 18:02 IST

Barwah (MP): A minor girl who was raped and later set on fire on Jan 27 at Salakhedi village in Madhya Pradesh died at Indore's MY Hospital on Sunday.

Rajendra allegedly raped the Class 10th student and when she said she would complain about it, he set her ablaze after pouring kerosene on her, additional superintendent of police, Sachindra Chouhan, said.

A police team has been sent to Salakhedi to arrest the accused, the ASP said.

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Jan 29, 2012: Minor girl dies after being raped and set on fire

Press Trust Of India, Updated Jan 29, 2012 18:02 IST

Barwah (MP): A minor girl who was raped and later set on fire on Jan 27 at Salakhedi village in Madhya Pradesh died at Indore's MY Hospital on Sunday.

Rajendra allegedly raped the Class 10th student and when she said she would complain about it, he set her ablaze after pouring kerosene on her, additional superintendent of police, Sachindra Chouhan, said.

A police team has been sent to Salakhedi to arrest the accused, the ASP said.

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Jan 29, 2012: Man burns minor sons to death; sets wife, self ablaze

Press Trust of India, Updated: Jan 29, 2012 18:01 IST

Hoshiarpur: A man allegedly burnt his two minor sons to death and tried to kill his wife in a similar manner before attempting suicide in the Dasuya area near here, police said today.Jaswinder Singh, a mason, had...

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Jan 29, 2011: Four-year-old Dalit girl raped in Karad

Karad: A four-year-old Dalit girl was raped by a 17-year-old Maratha boy in Karad's Kathavli village on Friday, police said on Saturday.

The girl, admitted to the Satara civil hospital, is out of danger. The boy was sent to the remand home in Satara to be kept under observation, police inspector Barkhat Mujawar said. This is the second incident of atrocity on a Dalit in Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's hometown Karad in under a month.

Earlier this month, a Dalit woman Rekha Chavan was beaten up and paraded in Mulgaon village in Karad, as her son had allegedly eloped with a Maratha girl.

In the Kathavli incident, police arrested the boy late on Friday evening. He has been booked under Section 375 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code, as also the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, (1989). He was produced in court on Saturday.

Mr. Mujawar said the parents claimed that the boy, a ninth standard student, was “mentally unstable” and undergoing treatment since the age of 10. “Two doctors have been appointed at the remand home to attend to him,” he said.

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Jan 29, 2012: Man arrested for rape, circulation of video clips

Sandhya Nair, TNN | Jan 29, 2012, 03.33AM IST

MUMBAI: A Vangaon resident has been arrested for allegedly raping a married woman, filming the act and blackmailing her into having sex with him for a year. The accused even sent the MMS clip to the victim's husband.

The accused, Dhananjay alias Bharat Wayda(29), and his accomplice, Anuradha Dhumal(24), both residents of Vire village at Vangaon in Dahanu have been sent to police custody till January 30.

In January last year, Dhumal invited her 24-year-old neighbour to Wayda's home. They offered her tea laced with sedatives, said the police, adding that after the victim fell unconscious, Wayda raped her while Dhumal filmed the act on a mobile. Wayda later blackmailed the victim with the clipping and raped her on several occasions. The woman bore the torture as the accused had threatened to circulate the images, the police said. In January this year, Wayda allegedly sent the video to his friends as well as the victim's husband. When the victim's husband asked Wayda to delete the clips, he allegedly demanded Rs 5 lakh.

The victim and her husband moved somewhere else, but Wayda continued to blackmail them. On January 23, he reportedly threatened to make the images public, when the couple went to the police. "We are ascertaining if Wayda is involved in a sex racket," said API Sunil Takavle.

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Jan 28, 2012: Firm executive held for uploading obscene photos of girlfriend

PTI | Jan 28, 2012, 04.33PM IST

NAGPUR: A pharma company executive has been arrested for allegedly taking obscene pictures of his girlfriend and uploading them on a social networking site, police said today.

Ajay Shalikram Gajbhiye, working as regional chief of a pharmaceutical firm here, took the girl to a nearby resort and offered her spiked soft drink. He then took her objectionable pictures on his mobilephone, they said.

The 37-year-old managed to gain the victim's confidence and got the password of her account on the social networking site, where he uploaded these photos, they said.

When the girl came to know about it, she blocked her account but Gajbhiye opened a fictitious account and continued with his misdeeds, police said.

Police arrested Gajbhiye yesterday and booked him under relevant sections of IPC, including the one related to outraging the modesty of a woman, and Information Technology Act.

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Jan 28, 2012: Milk vendor rapes domestic help, held

TNN | Jan 28, 2012, 04.53AM IST

BANGALORE: Jeevan Bima Nagar police arrested milk vendor Ananda, 23, for allegedly raping a domestic help at her employer's residence in Deepanjali Layout near Indiranagar on Thursday.

The accused and victim were sent for medical examination; preliminary investigation proved that he had raped her and fled. Police said the accused would visit the victim every day at her employer's house where she stayed too. "He runs a milk booth and knew the victim would be alone on weekdays," police said.

The victim's employers work in software companies. "Anand knocked on the door around 11.30am, saying he had some work. Not knowing his intentions, the woman opened the door. The accused allegedly locked her in a room and raped her," police said.

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Jan 28, 2012: Harassed wife, daughters hack man to death

TNN | Jan 24, 2012, 02.13AM IST

HYDERABAD: Fed up with harassment, a woman allegedly murdered her husband with the help of her two daughters at Peerzadiguda on Monday.

According to Medipally police, Balaiah, 50, a real estate businessman of Peerzadiguda, was addicted to alcohol. "Every night he used to go home in an inebriated condition and harass his family," assistant commissioner of police (ACP), Malkajgiri, P Radhakishan Rao said.

Balaiah's 45-year-old wife Lakshmi, her daughters, Bhagya Lakshmi, 25, and Santosha, 22, were fed up with his daily harassment. On Sunday night, Balaiah came home drunk and picked up an argument with Lakshmi. The argument went on till late in the night. At around 2 am, the trio lost their cool and attacked Balaiah with a pestle and kitchen knife.

"With severe injuries on the head, Balaiah died on the spot. Alerted by the neighbours, the Medipally police rushed to the house and arrested the three women on Monday morning," theACP said.

A case was booked against the three women.

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Jan 27, 2012: Woman killed for dowry in Firozabad, UP

PTI | Updated: Jan 27, 2012 12:21 IST

Firozabad, UP: A 21-year old newly-married woman was strangled to death allegedly by her husband and in-laws over dowry in Uttar area, police said here.

Rani was killed allegedly by her husband Neeraj and his family members last evening. The body was later hanged from the ceiling, they said.

Rani got married to Neeraj eight months back and since then she was being harassed for dowry, her father Rajest alleged.

On the basis of post mortem report, a case has been lodged against Neeraj and his family members, police said.

In another incident, 20-year Neelam allegedly committed suicide in Fariha area by consuming poison.

However, Neelam's father Arjun Singh has lodged a dowry case against her husbant Veerpal and his family members, police said.

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Jan 26, 2012: BPO staffer held for ‘rape’ and cheating

Nitasha Natu, TNN | Jan 26, 2012, 02.08AM IST

MUMBAI: The Bangur Nagar police arrested a BPO employee on Tuesday after his former girlfriend accused him of rape and cheating. Officials said the accused, M Contractor (30), also allegedly took Rs 5 lakh from the victim on the pretext of starting a business, but did not repay the amount.

Contractor is a resident of Mira Road; the victim is nine years elder to him. The duo worked in the same BPO on Malad Link Road. The victim had separated from her husband and moved in with her parents in Goregaon (W). She has a five-year-old son and is yet to get a formal divorce.

"The two started having a relationship in 2006. The woman said he made false promises of marriage and got intimate with her a number of times. He also took money to start a business or on the pretext of 'building a future for them'," a senior police official said.

The victim then learnt that Contractor was getting married to some other girl. He also wouldn't repay the money to her. On Tuesday, she lodged a police complaint. The accused has been remanded in police custody till January 30.

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Jan 25, 2012: Woman alleges rape by live-in partner

IANS | Jan 25, 2012, 07.46PM IST

NEW DELHI: A 26-year-old woman, who was in a live-in relationship with her friend for the last three years, has alleged that she was being raped by him for long and kept quite as she was afraid of being kicked out of their joint business, police said Tuesday.

According to police, the couple was residing in east Delhi's Mayur Vihar Phase I and were in the business of interior decoration.

Police have registered a case regarding the incident and is probing the matter while the questionning of the 30-year-old accused Kamal is on.

"The woman has complained that Kamal had been raping her for quite some time now and had threatened her of dire consequences if she reported the matter to anyone. He wanted the relationship to continue at any cost," said a police official.

"She was afraid of bearing financial losses if she was thrown out of the joint business by the accused and kept mum," added the official.

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Jan 25, 2012: Another girl kidnapped and raped in Mumbai

V Narayan, TNN | Jan 25, 2012, 02.43AM IST

MUMBAI: A six-year-old girl was kidnapped from outside her hutment near Mahim station and raped in the bushes opposite the railway tracks on Monday evening, said the Shahu Nagar police.

This is the third instance of a minor girl being kidnapped and raped in the city in the last four days.

The girl was playing outside her hutment around 7pm on Monday when an unidentified man kidnapped her, said the police. Medical examination has confirmed that the girl was raped. A police team has been formed to track down the accused who is suspected to be a local.

The girl's mother learnt about the incident around 8.15pm. In her complaint, the victim's mother said, "I was busy with household work while my younger daughter was playing outside our home. In the evening, my elder daughter went looking for her sister and realized that she was missing. We started looking for her in the locality. A little later, my elder daughter spotted her sister crying on the other end of the railway track and informed me."

Deputy commissioner of police (Zone V) Dhananjay Kulkarni said they have registered a case of kidnapping and rape. "We have information about the accused and will soon nab him. The victim was forcibly taken to an isolated spot that is thickly populated with bushes a little distance from her hutment," Kulkarni said.

Investigators said the victim is in a state of shock and is undergoing treatment at JJ Hospital.

On Friday, the 14-year-old daughter of a businessman was allegedly kidnapped and raped by a 22-year-old college dropout, Sagar Raorane, in Bhandup (W). Raorane, who had taken the girl to a hotel where he repeatedly raped her, was arrested on Monday.

On Sunday, a seven-year-old girl was kidnapped from near her Baiganwadi home at Shivaji Nagar in Govandi and allegedly raped by an unidentified youth.

A total of six rape cases had been registered across Mumbai city till January 22 this year. The figure matches the same period in 2011.

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Jan 25, 2012: 80-year-old woman raped in Haryana village

PTI | Jan 25, 2012, 07.24PM IST

Rewari (Haryana): An 80-year-old woman was allegedly raped and physically assaulted by a neighbour at her residence in Nangal village, 12 km from here, police said today.

Ashok Kumar (35), who is married and has three children, allegedly intruded into the woman's house and raped her on Sunday night. He also tried to strangulate the victim and left her unconscious, believing she was dead, police said.

The accused has been arrested and cases of rape and attempt to murder have been registered against him.

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Jan 24, 2012: 7-yr-old raped after being kidnapped

Mid-Day.com, Updated: Jan 24, 2012 13:33 IST
Mumbai: The victim went missing from the vicinity of her house in the night, was spotted entering the area in the morning in a horrific condition; cops have registered a case of kidnapping and rape
The Govandi police have launched a manhunt for an unknown person accused of kidnapping and raping a minor.
The girl (7), a resident of Baiganwadi in Shivaji Nagar, had accompanied her grandmother to fetch water, when the unidentified person abducted her from the locale on Sunday night.

Yesterday at around 6.30 am, the girl was seen walking in to the area crying and her clothes were torn and stained.

A medical test conducted at Nagpada Hospital confirmed that the girl was raped. Police have, however, not managed to get a statement from the traumatised victim as she is currently under observation at JJ Hospital.

According to the cops, on January 22 at around 10 pm, the victim studying in class II, followed her grandma to the common tap to fill water, which is located a few metres away from their house.

Claiming that he was their neighbour, an unknown man aged between 20-25 years, and clad in a green shirt and black trousers, approached the grandmother and started conversing with her. But she told him that she didn't know him. The man, however, insisted that she was known to him and hung around. As there was another bucket of water to be filled, the grandmother asked the man to keep a watch on the girl till she returned.

When she returned after 10 minutes, the man and her granddaughter were nowhere to be seen. She enquired of some locals, who had seen the man talking to her and assumed that she knew him.

After learning that the man was not from the area, hell broke loose. The police were informed, as the locals started their own search operation. A massive hunt gripped the whole area, which continued through the night, but to no avail.

Around 6.30 am, the minor was spotted entering the area. Her clothes were torn and tattered and she was in a state of shock, unable to communicate.


"We have registered a case kidnapping and rape. We are yet to record the girl's statement, as she is not in a condition to speak. We are taking down statements of the eyewitnesses. We have also called in a sketch artist, and with the help of the grandmother and the eyewitnesses, we are trying to sketch a portrait of the unknown accused," said Radhesham Agarwal, senior police inspector at Shivaji Nagar police station.

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Jan 23, 2012: Dad gets life term for raping daughter

PTI | Jan 23, 2012, 05.26PM IST

NEW DELHI: A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his minor daughter for over three years with the court terming his offence as "too heinous" and "committed in total disregard to moral and social values."

Additional sessions judge Anju Bajaj Chandna also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on convict Tek Bahadur against whom his teenaged daughter herself had lodged the FIR last March.

"The offence committed by the convict is more serious in manner that he did not even spare his own daughter. Instead of protecting the prosecutrix being the biological father, the convict in total disregard to moral and social values went on ruining her life by committing immoral act of highest order.

"It is evident that convict treated prosecutrix only as an object to fulfill his sexual desires. The offence committed by convict is too heinous and, therefore, he does not deserve any leniency," the judge said.

The court sentenced Bahadur to life imprisonment and fine of Rs 25,000 for the offence under section 376 (rape) and jail for five years and fine of Rs 5,000 for the offence under section 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC. The court said both sentences would run concurrently.

The girl had, on March 21, last year, informed the police that her father has been committingrape on her repeatedly for about two to three years.

She said her father raped her under the influence of liquor and alleged he "assaulted and threatened" her not to reveal the incident to anyone.

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Jan 23, 2012: Sales executive arrested for raping Manipuri girl

PTI | Jan 23, 2012, 09.07PM IST

NEW DELHI: A 30-year-old sales executive was arrested on Monday for allegedly raping a 20-year-old girl from Manipur five days ago, after giving her lift while she was returning home from office.

Anuj Saini, a graduate residing in Gurgaon, was apprehended from his house when he came there to collect some items, deputy commissioner of police (South-West) A K Ojha said. He is married and has a child.

The victim was waiting for public transport after she finished her office work on January 18 night in Gurgaon when he offered her lift to her residence in Mahipalpur but instead of taking her to her house, he allegedly took her to Dwarka.

Though she screamed inside the car but man allegedly took her to an isolated place in Dwarka Sector 20, beat her up and raped her repeatedly.

"Investigators managed to obtain vital clues including two debit cards suspected to belong to the accused from the crime scene. The debit cards found on the scene of crime were later found in the name of one Saini along with his other personal details.

"On the basis of the above information the police teams managed to locate the address of the suspect. Thereafter a massive manhunt was launched to nab the accused. However, he was not found present in the given address," Ojha said.

Police teams were even sent to Jaipur and Gurgaon on inputs but he could not be nabbed.

"We had information that he would come to his residence to pick up some money and clothes and would immediately leave for a hill-station in order to evade arrest. We laid a trap around his residence of the accused and succeeded in overpowering and apprehending him," Ojha said.

During questioning, he claimed, Saini tried to hoodwink police by narrating the story of his wife's ill health and later told them that he was in Jaipur on January 18.

However, Ojha claimed, Saini confessed when he was confronted with facts.

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Jan 23, 2012: Suspecting affair, man tries to kill wife; arrested

Press Trust of India, Updated: Jan 23, 2012 07: 38 IST

New Delhi: Jeetu (23) allegedly set his 22-year old wife Reena on fire in their house in Fatehpur Behri on January 19 and was apprehended from Gurgaon's Manesar while he was planning to escape to Barmer in Rajasthan, his native place near India-Pakistan border.

Chhaya Sharma, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), said his neighbors told police that Reena had been burnt by her husband.

"The incident was also reported to the SDM of the area as the husband of the victim was absconding since the incident. Her statement was recorded in which she claimed that Jeetu came to house with his cousin Arvind on the day of the incident.

"After consuming liquor, he alleged that she was having an extra-marital affair with Arvind. This resulted in a heated argument. Jeetu allegedly beat her up severely due to which she fell unconscious. After that he poured kerosene oil on her and set her afire," Sharma said.

Hearing her cries, she said, neighbors rushed to the house and rescued her.

Jeetu and Reena were married two years ago and have a daughter. Jeetu is a habitual drinker and works as a labor at construction sites.

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Jan 22, 2012: 25-year-old rapes toddler in Colva

TNN | Jan 22, 2012, 03.57AM IST

MARGAO: A two-year-old girl from Colva was raped by a 25-year-old who is presently absconding. Colva police on Saturday registered a case under IPC Section 376 against Santan Fernandes.

Police said Fernandes, a daily wage worker who lived in the vicinity of the victim's residence, committed the sexual assault on Friday evening after finding her alone at home.

The mother, on discovering what had happened to her daughter, rushed to the police station to file the complaint. The offence was initially registered as a molestation awaiting the medical examination of the child. Once the latter report arrived from the GMC, Bambolim, the charge was changed to rape.

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Jan 22, 2012: 4 girls rescued from brothel

PTI | Jan 22, 2012, 07.29PM IST

SILCHAR: Four girls, including a minor, were rescued from a brothel in a joint operation by both Meghalaya and Assam Police in Silchar town of Assam's Cachar district, police said.

The four girls from Meghalaya were brought here by a trafficker, whose name the police refused to divulge, and sold to Gita Sinha and Suku Debnath, who run a brothel near Fatak Bazar, the largest wholesale and retail market in the southern part of the state.

The Meghalaya Police, acting on a tip-off, informed their Assam counterparts and rescued the four.

The trafficker was absconding but the police arrested Sinha and Debnath.

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Jan 21, 2012: Teenager gangraped by three men including her boyfriend

Press Trust of India, Updated Jan 21, 2012 08:27 IST
Ghaziabad: A 16-year old girl was allegedly gang-raped by three youths, including her boyfriend, in a desolate house, police said on Friday.

The incident occurred in the evening when the victim, a class X student, was picked up by her boyfriend from her school near Dilshad Garden in his car.

The youth took her to a house at Tila Maudh near Loni town where he and his two friends gangraped her. The trio then left her alone in house and escaped, SP City J K Sahni said.

Locals in the area saw the girl in a distressed state and took her to police. Police sent her for medical examination, which confirmed that she was sexually assaulted.

A case has been booked under Section 376 of the IPC against the absconding trio.

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Jan 20, 2012: Woman beheads sexual harasser

IANS | Jan 20, 2012, 07.12PM IST

BHOPAL: A married woman from Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district on Friday beheaded with an axe a man who used to sexually harass her.

The woman, identified as Rajkumari cut off the head of Shyamlal Yadav and then took it to the police station, where she confessed to her act.

"This man often harassed me sexually. Today, I called him to a field and axed his head four times. He died on the spot. Later, I brought his head to the police station," Rajkumari told reporters atMajoli police station.

Police arrested her for the act.

Both Rajkumari and Yadav are residents of Amoda village in Jabalpur district.

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Jan 20, 2012: Woman offered lift in Gurgaon, raped & dumped in Dwarka

TNN | Jan 20, 2012, 01.02AM IST

NEW DELHI: A 20-year-old woman from the Northeast was allegedly raped by a man who offered her a lift from Gurgaon to her home in Mahipalpur on Thursday night. Instead, he took her to a secluded place in Dwarka and raped her.

Police sources said the incident took place when the woman, who works with a hospitality group in Gurgaon, was waiting for a public transport at IFFCO Chowk to return home around 8.45pm. In a bid to reach home early, she accepted the lift. After the car went a little distance ahead, it started changed way and instead of going towards Mahipalpur, got on to the way towards Dwarka.

The man then took her to a secluded place in Dwarka Sector 23 and sexually assaulted her, the police said. The woman was also beaten up when she resisted him and there were several bruises along with bite marks on the woman's face and body, the sources said.

The accused then left her in an unconscious state in the bushes and fled the spot. The woman regained consciousness a little later and began to look for her phone which she could not find as it had fallen down in the bushes during the scuffle. The woman then gathered courage and came and stood on the road seeking help.

A passerby stopped his car and the victim called her relatives and friends in Mahipalpur from his mobile phone. Police sources said a PCR call was made for Mahipalpur first and subsequently the information was transferred to Dwarka Sector 23 after the woman - with the help of the passerby - managed to give her location, the sources added.

The police took the woman to hospital. A medical examination was conducted and a case of rape has been registered.

The cops recovered her mobile phone along with the debit card from the spot in the morning, the sources said.

The police identified the accused on Thursday night and a hunt is on, sources said.

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Jan 19, 2012: Prostitution ring busted, 6 arrested in east Delhi

PTI | Jan 19, 2012, 07.14PM IST

NEW DELHI: Police on Thursday claimed to have smashed a prostitution ring with the arrest of six persons, including five women, in east Delhi.

While the arrested women, included a pimp, are from Delhi, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Uttrakhand and Nepal, the man who was apprehended has been identified as Gaurav Anand, an alleged pimp.

"We received a tip-off yesterday that a sex racket was operating in Madhu Vihar. A decoy was sent who met Anand. The pimp took him near a Hyundai Accent car where a pimp using the alias of Sonu Bangalan was present along with four girls.

"A deal was struck for Rs 7,000 and part payment was made to them. After this, a raid was conducted and six were arrested," DCP (Crime) Ashok Chand said.

The woman pimp, hailing from West Bengal, was residing at Madhu Vihar. Anand was earlier a driver in a call centre and came in contact with her. Both had been running the call girl racket for the last three years, Chand claimed.

"They operated in the Trans Yamuna Area. In order to avoid detection, they kept changing the places from where they operated. They have operated from Patparganj, Ganesh Nagar and Vinod Nagar.

"The recent place in Madhu Vihar from where they operated had been taken on rent for the last seven-eight months on a monthly rent of Rs 8,000. The call girls are generally in the age bracket of 19 to 30 years," Chand said.

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Jan 19, 2012: Man knocks down wife; ends life presuming her to be dead

PTI | Jan 19, 2012, 09.13PM IST

MADURAI: A 45-year old man allegedly committed suicide presuming his wife to be dead after she swooned on being hit by him during a quarrel in a village in the district, police said on Thursday.

Palanichamy of Velayuthampatti had hit his wife Suba (35) in a fit of rage after an heated exchange yesterday and she fainted, police said. As she did not regain consciousness even after he sprinkled water on her face, the man presumed she had died. Upset over his act, he hanged himself to death in the house.

Subha, who woke up later, was shocked to find her husband hanging and informed police.

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Jan 19, 2012: NGO man held for raping HIV+ minors

IANS | Jan 19, 2012, 09.25PM IST

GURGAON: The president of an NGO running a shelter home here for AIDS victims was detained and her son arrested on Thursday on charges of raping two HIV+ minor girls, police said.

Sunita Gupta was detained for allegedly hiding facts of sexual harassment of the girls. Her son and board member Ankur Gupta (38), who too is said to be a HIV+ patient, was arrested on rape charges.

The victims were produced in the court of judicial magistrate Ashok Maan, where their statements were recorded.

On Wednesday, eight minor girls were rescued from Drone Foundation's shelter home at Maruti Kung Bhondsi and shifted to another NGO in Delhi.

On Thursday, five more children were rescued.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Hamid Akhtar told reporters: "Ankur Gupta was arrested Thursday evening from his hideout in Gurgaon. Sunita Gupta wasn't arrested as inquiry against her is not yet complete."

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Jan 18, 2012: 12-year-old girl gang raped

PTI | Jan 18, 2012, 07.12PM IST

UNNAO (UP): A minor girl was allegedly gang raped in Bahrauli Jahanpur village in Hasangaj area here by two youths of the neighbouring village, police said today.

The incident took place last evening when the two youths identified as Kallu and Pankaj dragged the 12 year-old girl to the field and gang raped her, they said.

The youths later fled from the scene. An FIR in this regard was later registered by the police, which has launched a manhunt to nab the accused.

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Jan 18, 2012: Principal arrested for attempting to rape student

PTI | Jan 18, 2012, 06.53PM IST

BHADOHI (UP): The principal of a primary school in Muktapur village has been arrested for allegedly trying to rape a nine-year-old girl in the school campus, police said today.

The incident took place yesterday when the girl was in the school and principal Manishankar Chaubey tried to rape her, they said.

The accused was later arrested by the police.

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Jan 18, 2012: NRI woman molested on Delhi-Bhopal flight

IANS | Jan 18, 2012, 11.16AM IST

BHOPAL: A man was arrested here Tuesday after a non-resident Indian woman accused him of sexually harassing her on a Delhi-Bhopal flight, police said.

The woman, who lives in Singapore, complained first to the Central Industrial Security Force and then the local police that she was sleeping when co-passenger Rajul Agrawal molested her.

The man, an officer with the Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd, was arrested and then let off on bail, police officer G.D. Sharma told IANS.

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Jan 18, 2012: 15-year-old boy rapes 11-yr-old girl

TNN | Jan 18, 2012, 10.02AM IST

ALLAHABAD: In a shocking incident, a minor girl was allegedly raped by a 15-year-old boy near Loco area, railway station under Civil Lines policestation on Monday night. The case came to light when the victim narrated her woes to the family and further lodged an FIR in this connection.

Inspector, Civil Lines, Ram Prakash Bajpai told the victim, a 11-year-old girl along with her family members had come Moradabad to attend a marriage function at a local club. On late Monday evening, a 15-year-old boy, who was reportedly part of the marriage party, had enticed the minor girl towards the loco area and raped her.

Inspector added that victim told the series of incidences to her family members who approached the police. The girl was later sent for medical examination.

Police also added that the police have paraded the youths but the girl was yet to ascertain the identity of the accused. A case under section 376 of IPC has been lodged in this regard.

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Jan 18, 2012: 3 held for murder, gangrape of child

TNN | Jan 18, 2012, 04.14AM IST

NEW DELHI: Three men have been arrested for the gangrape and murder of a four-year-old girl in west Delhi. The accused have been identified as Jagvir (30), Rajkumar (24) and Birbal (26).

On January 5, Jagvir alias Jawahar, a labourer, kidnapped the child from her residence in Ramesh Nagar. The victim's father is an overseer and Jagvir had worked for him earlier.

"Jagvir took her to an under construction building in the area, where the other two accused were waiting for him. The three took turns to rape the child. They then throttled her and dumped the body in a nearby drain. Passersby spotted the body next morning and informed police.

After identification, the body was sent for postmortem. As sand and dirt was found on the body, cops inferred the rape must have taken place at some construction site in the area. Over 150 labourers from the area were questioned and cops found that Jagvir had been missing. Raids were conducted in Delhi and Bihar, and the trio was arrested,'' said a senior investigating officer.

The police said that the accused had murdered the girl as they feared that she may identify Jagvir later. The investigating officers said the blood-stained clothes of the child were recovered after the accused were interrogated. "We are now recording the statements of other labourers at the site to develop circumstantial evidence,'' said a source.

Last year, there was a significant rise in the number of rape and molestation cases in the city compared to 2010. While rape cases rose to 568 in 2011 compared to 507 in 2010, there were 653 cases of molestation in 2011 compared to 601 reported the previous year.

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