May 22, 2012: Woman commits suicide over husband's allegation of infidelity

Press Trust of India | Updated: May 22, 2012 14:00 IST 

Kanpur: Distraught over her husband's suspicion that she was cheating on him, a woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself in Babuparwa area in Kanpur, police said today.

Shahnawaz and Shayista Alam had a love marriage a few months ago, they said.

However, Shahnawaz suspected that some male friend of his wife was messaging her, leading him to doubt her fidelity, they said.


Upset over these allegations, Shayista committed suicide by hanging herself in her room, they said.

In another incident, a woman Sonu Kumar allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in Bakar Ganj area as she suspected her husband of cheating on her, police said.

The husbands in both cases are being questioned, they said.
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May 22, 2012: 7 held for south Delhi gang-rape

TNN | May 22, 2012, 02.59AM IST

NEW DELHI: Seven people have been arrested in connection with the gang rape of the 29-year-old woman who was dumped at Nehru Place on Saturday. 

The men had taken turns to sexually assault the woman through Friday night after abducting her from Jaitpur area in southeast Delhi, said cops. 

The accused, Vicky alias Vijay Singh, Lucky, Uma Shankar, Yasin Khan, Satjeet Vishwas, Amit and Abhimanyu, have been charged with sections of rape (376) and sodomy (377) under IPC and sent to judicial custody, said cops. Police said Yasin and Lucky run a Gramin Sewa tempo from Nehru Place to Madanpur Khadar area. 
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May 22, 2012: Youth held for bid to outrage sister's modesty

TNN | May 22, 2012, 07.06AM IST

INDORE: A woman has lodged a complaint against her son accusing him of tearing the clothes off her minor daughter allegedly intending to outrage her modesty in Indore.

The police arrested the accused based on the complaint and an offence was registered against him on Monday.

In her complaint, Premabai alleged that her son Kalu alias Dileep came home and tore off the clothes of her daughter.

He was in an inebriated condition, said police quoting Premabai. They are the resident of Dev Nagar.

Police said that what prompted the accused to resort to the misdeed is still not clear.

Police booked the accused under Sections 354 A (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 294 (Obscene acts and songs) and 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation).

He was arrested and later sent to jail after producing him in a city court.
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May 22, 2012: Woman gang-raped in Noida, 2 arrested

Dwaipayan Ghosh, TNN | May 22, 2012, 01.57AM IST

NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old girl, residing in the Munirka area of south Delhi, was allegedly gang-raped after being held hostage for several days at an undisclosed location in Noida. The incident was reported three weeks ago. 

Cops have arrested Durgesh Mishra, 27, and Dipak Mishra, 24. Police said the chain of events began last month when the victim, originally a resident of Pratapgarh in UP, met a friend, Durgesh, in Delhi after almost two years of her marriage. 

Her husband is employed with a Gurgaon-based call centre. According to police, Durgesh came down to her residence at Munirka with a job offer for her at Noida. 

A couple of days later, the woman accompanied him to an unidentified location in Noida. He had told her that Dipak was her future employer. A source said the woman had taken her son along with her to the residence. The victim told cops she was offered drinks laced with sedatives by the duo and that she was repeatedly raped over several days. The woman was subjected to torture for a day and that she managed to run away from the accused the same night, cops said. Police are probing whether the one-year-old child was the sole witness.
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May 21, 2012: 40-year-old held for molesting daughter

TNN | May 21, 2012, 02.49AM IST

MUMBAI: A 40-year-old man was arrested on Sunday for molesting his daughter over the past three years. Ram Singh (name changed), a labourer at an imitation jewellery workshop, will be produced before a metropolitan court on Monday. 

Singh lived in Ambhujwadi, Malwani, with his wife, two daughters and a son. The 18-year-old victim's ordeal began in November 2009 when her mother had gone to UP to take care of the victim's ailing granddad. "The victim and her siblings were in Singh's care at that time. While the victim was asleep at night, Singh touched her inappropriately. When she woke up, Singh threatened her with a knife and molested her," an officer said. 

When the girl's mother returned, the victim confided in her. When her mother confronted Singh, he stopped talking to his family. He would return late from work and go straight to bed. Whenever he found the victim alone, he would continue to molest her, the police said. 

On May 2, Singh again molested the girl. When she raised an alarm, her mother woke up and pushed him out. On Sunday, the girl and her mother approached the cops. Singh was arrested for molestation and criminal intimidation.
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May 21, 2012: Mother detained for selling daughter

PTI | May 21, 2012, 06.09PM IST

KRISHNAGAR (WEST BENGAL): A woman was detained for allegedly selling her seven-month old daughter at Stationpara in Nadia district today, police said. 

Rinku Das (27), whose husband had deserted her, had sold the baby through a local fixer Madhab Saha, Superintendent of Police Sabyasachi Raman Mishra said. 

Saha too was detained. One Apu Guha had bought the baby who was currently lodged in his house at Rajberia under Amdanga police station area in North 24 Parganas district. Steps were being taken to recover the baby, police said.
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May 21, 2012: Dalit woman attacked with sword for turning down upper caste proposal

Reported by Saurabh Gupta | Updated: May 21, 2012 17:38 IST 

Satara: A Dalit woman, 17 years old, has been attacked with a sword in Maharashtra's Satara district on today.
 
The victim is being treated in hospital for serious injuries. She was attacked on her hands and head.
 
The man who allegedly attacked her had been stalking her for some time, the victim's mother claims. She said that he had been threatening the family on the phone after they made it clear that his marriage proposal was not acceptable because he is from a different caste.


The alleged attacker is 20 years old and is missing. A case has been registered against him at the Satara city police station.
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May 21, 2012: Pune cop booked for molestation

TNN | May 21, 2012, 02.15AM IST

PUNE: The Lonavla city police on Sunday booked a head constable attached to the police training school in Khandala for allegedly molesting a trainee police recruit.

The incident took place on the premises of the police training school on Saturday around 11.30 am. Vitthal Dashrath Raut has been booked under section 354 (354 - Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code.

According the complaint, the suspect Raut allegedly molested the victim, while she was in a room at the police training school. Following the incident, the victim approached the principal of the police training school and made the complaint against Raut. The principal recorded the statement of Raut as well as the victim and decided to file a complaint against Raut.

Police sub-inspector B B Edge of the Lonavla city police station said that the Lonavla city police station received the letter from the police training school on Sunday. "We have registered the case against Raut and booked him. We have not yet arrested him. We are investigating further," Edge said.
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May 21, 2012: Woman gang-raped in south Delhi

Raj Shekhar, TNN | May 21, 2012, 12.50AM IST

NEW DELHI: A woman in her late 20s was allegedly gang-raped through Friday night and dumped at Nehru Place on early Saturday. The woman has been admitted to AIIMS, police said. Four accused were arrested till Sunday evening. 

This incident comes weeks after a woman was gang-raped by two persons, murdered and dumped in Nehru Place and another woman was raped by four persons, killed and dumped inside LNJP Hospital. 

Sources said the woman was returning from Jaitpur in southeast Delhi after work when an occupant of a Gramin Sewa van offered her a lift. "Around 7.30pm, she was waiting for a bus for Najafgarh when a youth offered her a lift. The woman took the auto but instead of dropping her at Najafgarh, the man allegedly took her to a barren spot in Nehru Place and raped her along with two friends who joined him on the way, a source said. The driver stood guard, sources added. 

The three accused, accompanied by the driver and another friend, then took the woman to a house in Madanpur Khadar in south Delhi and the five men raped her. After repeated assaults, the accused allegedly made the woman sit in the van and headed to drop her back in the wee hours. However, one wheel of the tempo came off near the gas plant in Nehru Place. The driver managed to control the vehicle but hearing the commotion, sources said, a truck driver came out of his parked vehicle. He allegedly threatened the men that he would raise an alarm if they did not allow him to rape the victim. 

The accused then put her on a rickshaw and fled. The woman sought the rickshaw-puller's help and had cops informed. "A medical examination at AIIMS has confirmed sexual assault. A case of gang rape, abduction and threatening someone of dire consequences has been registered," said a source.
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May 20, 2012: Woman 'raped' by neighbour in Kolkata

May 20, 2012, 03.16AM IST

KOLKATA: A woman was allegedly raped by her neighbour, a paying guest, at least 15 days ago. On Saturday, she mustered courage and told her husband about the incident, following which a complaint was lodged at Shyampukur police station. While the accused, Sushovan Kundu, is absconding, police have interrogated two of his roommates. 

The woman, in her late 20s, stays with her husband at a rented apartment in the Shyampukur police station area. On Saturday, the victim's husband saw that their neighbour was forcing her to go somewhere. When he intervened, the woman broke into tears and told her husband that she was sexually assaulted by the youth and he had been pestering her. 

The woman said that few days ago in the afternoon, she had gone to the terrace of the building to hang wet clothes. It was then that Kundu reportedly gagged her, forcibly took her to his room and raped her. 

The accused also filmed her in compromising positions and threatened to release the footage on the internet if she dared to lodge a police complaint against him, the woman alleged. 

It was because of this threat that the woman kept quiet. Neither did she lodge a complaint nor did she tell her husband, though it had been a fortnight since the incident occurred. 

Meanwhile, Kundu reportedly kept pressing her to oblige him with sexual favours. If she refused, he would release the footage, he threatened. The woman, however, resisted his advances on various pretexts. 

But on Saturday, Kundu seemed determined and went on pestering the victim to give in to his demands. 

Police said they have already seized some clothes of the woman, though it is too late to prove therape. They have also started gathering circumstantial evidence. 

"We have already detained the roommates of the youth. We have got some hint of torture perpetrated on her. We are hopeful of gathering more witnesses against the crime," said a senior police officer investigating the incident.
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