Feb 7, 2013: Woman, children set on fire for 'stealing jewellery' in Bihar

IANS [ Updated 07 Feb 2013, 14:44:33 ]

Patna, Feb 7: A 27-year-old woman is battling for her life, while her three minor children were killed after being set ablaze allegedly by her husband and in-laws on charge of stealing jewellery in a Bihar village, police said here Thursday.

Shinti Devi and her three minor children were set on fire late Wednesday night in Arnia village in Vaishali district, which is about 40 km from here.

A case has been lodged against the woman's husband and in-laws on the basis of her statement, a police official said.

According to the woman's statement, the husband and in-laws first locked her along with the children in a room, beat her and then set them ablaze for allegedly stealing her sister-in-law's jewellery.

She was rescued by her neighbours after they saw fire and smoke in her house and informed the police.

The woman sustained serious burn injuries.

"She was referred to Patna medical college and hospital for treatment after her condition deteriorated," the official said.

The accused are absconding since the incident.
Link: Woman, children set on fire for 'stealing jewellery' in Bihar

Feb 7, 2013: Cop arrested over girl's rape

TNN | Feb 7, 2013, 02.34 AM IST

TIRUPATI: One constable was arrested and three other policemen including a sub-inspector were suspended on Wednesday over the alleged rape of a teenaged Dalit girl at SR Puram police station, near the temple town.

While constable Gopi was remanded in judicial custody after being arrested and produced in a local court in Puttur, sub-inspector Ravi Naik, ASI Rajendra and constable Ramana were suspended for 'negligence of duty. "A high-level investigation by additional SP Annapurna is being conducted into the incident. The chargesheet will be filed after the complete medical reports are out" Chittoor rural SP Krantirana Tata told TOI. The girl has been admitted to Chittoor Government Hospital.

On Tuesday, a local Dalit leader filed a petition before the police stating that the girl was brought from a nearby village to the police station on February 2 for questioning in an elopement case. She was detained in the station that night. When her parents came to the police station the next day, the girl told them she was sexually assaulted by the constable, he said. The girl also alleged that police had refused to register a case when the girl's parents want to lodge a complaint and directly approached SP on Tuesday with the help of local leaders.

Meanwhile, the state human rights commission (SHRC) on Wednesday ordered the Chittoor SP to submit a report on the incident before March 4 following a petition filed by a child rights activist.
Link: Cop arrested over girl's rape

Feb 7, 2013: Delhi cops find gang-raped girl in car with tinted glasses

IANS | Feb 7, 2013, 07.09 PM IST

NEW DELHI: A 24-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by four people, including an acquaintance, in Delhi's Swaroop Nagar, police said on Thursday. All her attackers have been arrested. 

The incident came to light Wednesday night when a police control room (PCR) van tried to flag down a car which had tinted glasses, in the city's Burari area. 

The car sped away seeing the PCR van. However, a message was flashed to other PCR vans and the accused were nabbed. 

"The car was chased, overtaken and all the accused — identified as Mohammed Shakil alias Ali, 23, Mohammed Irshad, 30, Mohammed Abid, 21, and Lajpatrai Sachdeva, 38 — were arrested around 2.53am on Thursday," deputy commissioner of police Sindhu Pillai said. 

The victim was then rescued, Pillai added. 

The woman told police that first she was gang-raped in Swaroop Nagar and later was assaulted again in the moving car. 

"The victim, who knows Shakil, had gone to meet him in Swaroop Nagar on Wednesday night. The accused was present with his three other friends, who took her to a nearby Uttarakhand Colony and gang-raped her," said Pillai. 

"After committing the crime, the accused bundled the victim into a car and were heading towards Burari," she added. 

"The medical report of the victim confirmed rape. A case against the accused has been registered," the official said. 

The victim hails from 24-Parganas district in West Bengal and stays with her brother-in-law in Sector-16 of the capital's Rohini area.
Link: Delhi cops find gang-raped girl in car with tinted glasses

Feb 7, 2013: Man sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for raping minor

PTI | Feb 7, 2013, 07.46 PM IST

HOSHIARPUR: A local court here today sentenced a man to 12 years imprisonment for raping a minor girl. 

Additional Session Judge Manjinder Singh convicted Mangat Ram, alias Mangi under section 376 of the IPC and also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on him. 

According to the prosecution, Mangat Ram raped a 4-year-old girl of village Thinda on December 14 last year. 

He took the girl to sugarcane fields when she was playing with some children of the locality. 

Girl's mother along with some persons rushed to the fields after they heard screams of the minor where they found him raping her.
Link: Man sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for raping minor

Feb 7, 2013: 6-month-old baby sexually assaulted in Mumbai

PTI | Feb 7, 2013, 06.28 PM IST

MUMBAI: A case of sexual assault was registered against unidentified persons after a six-month-old girl was brought in a profusely bleeding state at a civic-run hospital here, police said today. 

Police were reportedly notified about the case but they refused to register an FIR, stating that the injury to the girl's private part was caused by a rat bite. 

As the medical report by the doctors confirmed that there were signs of forceful penetration with an unknown object, an FIR was registered against some unknown persons under section 3 (penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and IPC section 354 (outraging the modesty of a woman), Suresh Unawane, senior inspector at Shivaji Park police station in Mumbai said. 

"There was no delay in filing the FIR. We were waiting for the medical report," Unawane claimed. 

The baby's mother is a street vendor.
Link: 6-month-old baby sexually assaulted in Mumbai

Feb 7, 2013: Foreigner raped in south Delhi, offender held

By Raj Shekhar, TNN | Feb 7, 2013, 01.18 AM IST

NEW DELHI: A 23-year-old foreign national was allegedly raped by her Indian friend at Hauz Khas in south Delhi on Monday night, after the two had attended a party.

The accused, Tariq Sheikh, 28, a management graduate who works as a party organizer, has been arrested and the girl's embassy informed about the assault.

The victim, who works as a trainee executive for a firm in Gurgaon, told the police that she and Sheikh were at a party in Malviya Nagar in south Delhi earlier in the evening. He took her to a friend's house after the party, offered her more drinks and forced himself on her.

The two had met at a party six months ago, she said in her statement to the police.

There, he had encouraged her to drink and later offered to drop her home in his car.

However, he took her to a house in Hauz Khas on some pretext and where he offered her more alcohol, the victim told the police. She said Sheikh sexually assaulted her when she was highly inebriated and threatened her against lodging a complaint, a police source said.

In the morning, the victim escaped from the house and approached the police. She was medically examined at a government hospital on Tuesday evening and a case of rape registered under section 376 of IPC on the basis of her statement.
A police team was formed which raided Sheikh's residence but he was not there. The team later nabbed him on a tip-off through mobile surveillance. He was produced at a city court on Wednesday afternoon and sent to judicial custody.
Link: Foreigner raped in south Delhi, offender held

Feb 07, 2013: 103 women sterilised in a day at West Bengal hospital; probe ordered

Edited by Ashish Mukherjee | Updated: February 07, 2013 10:03 IST

Malda, West Bengal: A government hospital in West Bengal's Malda district is facing an inquiry for conducting mass sterilisation of women in shockingly appalling conditions. Two doctors at the hospital allegedly sterilised 103 women on Wednesday, even operating on some patients in the open fields.

The Manikchak block hospital, where the sterilisation camp was organised, has 60 beds - 30 each for men and women. The rulebook allows no more than 25 sterilisations in a day.

The doctors not only flouted that rule, their medical negligence went further. After the sterilisation, many women were left to recuperate in the hospital's open compound while still under anaesthesia. 

Medical experts are shocked how only two doctors carried out over a hundred operations. 

Residents of Manikchak block say such frenzied sterilisation camps are routine, but at other times the hospital at least puts up tents for the patients.

The Malda district magistrate said the block medical officer had been issued a notice and a probe had been ordered.
Link: 103 women sterilised in a day at West Bengal hospital; probe ordered

Feb 6, 2013: Teacher booked for obscene calls to girl

TNN | Feb 6, 2013, 03.28 AM IST

BHOPAL: Residents roughed up a school teacher and handed him over to the police for making obscene phone calls to a class VIII girl, here on Tuesday.

The incident took place in KKC School near Press Colony in Anand Nagar. The accused, Akash Choudhary, 21, a resident of Kiran Nagari near Nizamuddin colony, had forcefully given a mobile phone to the victim around a week back and made calls to her during odd hours using obscene words and would threaten her of dire consequences if she reveals it to anyone, the police staff investigating the case said.

The girl finally broke down and narrated the incident to her parents following which the accused was beaten by the parents and others. Mobile phone which the accused gave to minor was seized by the police.

The accused has been booked under section 354 and 506 of the IPC which deal with assault or use of criminal force on woman with intent to outrage her modesty and punishment for criminal intimidation.Link: Teacher booked for obscene calls to girl

Feb 6, 2013: Women don't feel safe in Delhi: Sheila

IANS | Feb 6, 2013, 04.45 PM IST

NEW DELHI: Women do not feel safe in Delhi, chief minister Sheila Dikshit admitted Wednesday. 

"Women don't feel safe in Delhi. Fears have risen. I'm shocked to learn about the Lajpat Nagar attempted rape case. It's a big setback for us," she said referring to the rape bid on a 19-year-old woman Tuesday. 

The Class IX student fought off the rape bid in her own house by an electricity contractor, who thrust an iron rod into her throat to quell her cries for help. The accused has been arrested. 

However, the chief minister promised to do everything possible to provide safety to women. 

"My government will do everything possible to provide a conducive atmosphere for the women in the city," Dikshit said. 

But CPM leader Brinda Karat criticized Dikshit. 

"It is clear that women in Delhi are insecure. The chief minister is speaking the truth. But it is surely not enough. What is her responsibility as chief minister? 

"Women's security issues have become political football between central and state government. Chief minister blames Delhi Police; central government defends police. It's a shame."
Link: Women don't feel safe in Delhi: Sheila

Feb 5, 2013: Woman attacked in Delhi's Lodhi Garden

TNN | Feb 5, 2013, 02.49 AM IST

NEW DELHI: A 45-year-old businesswoman complained of being assaulted and dragged towards bushes by a drunk in Lodhi Garden on Sunday evening. The accused also grabbed her by the neck during the scuffle, police said.

The accused was later arrested and booked under Section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with an intent to outrage her modesty) of the IPC. He has been identified as Anand (21), and works for a Lajpat Nagar-based businessman who has an outlet in Khan Market, a police officer said.

The victim, who has a clothes business, alleged that the police arrived late and a call on the number 181 went unanswered. Police maintained that a PCR van was immediately sent to the spot on receiving the call, and there was no delay on their part.

The woman told TOI about her ordeal that lasted half an hour. "Around 6.15pm, I entered Lodhi Garden, where I normally go for a walk. I had parked my car on Amrita Shergill Marg and was walking on the pathway. I was near Gate no. 5 when someone appeared from behind the bushes on my left and tried to pull me in his direction.

"A scuffle ensued and the man tripped. I manage to balance myself and started hitting him. No one came to my help immediately. The man started running and I chased him. Finally, a gardener came to my rescue and was joined by another person. The gardener slapped the accused, who smelt of alcohol," said the victim.

"I was trying to restrain him as I dialled 100. A woman stopped by and dialled 181, but there was no response. A crowd had gathered by then. The woman who responded to my call on 100 asked me where Lodhi Garden was. I informed her I was near Amrita Shergill Marg, but she kept asking for more details. I disconnected. She then called back twice to locate me.

"Finally, a PCR van arrived and police nabbed the man. From 6.20pm to 6.40pm, I was trying to seek help from cops. But the Tughlaq Road police was very efficient and SHO Madan Gopal was quite helpful," she said.

"I find all manner of people hanging around in Lodhi Garden. They even have alcohol but this is the first time I have experienced something of this kind. The security arrangements are quite lax," added the victim. Cops have increased police presence around the park after the incident, a source said.
Link: Woman attacked in Delhi's Lodhi Garden