Oct 31, 2011: Man arrested for raping lover

IANS | Oct 31, 2011, 10.37PM IST

NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old man was arrested in west Delhi Monday for raping a girl with whom he was in a relationship for the past 10 months, police said.

"Anuj was arrested near Dwarka Metro station. The girl was sent for medical examination," said a police official.

"The victim alleged that Anuj raped her today in Najafgarh area," said the official.

"The accused was with her at the time she called us to file the rape complaint," added the official

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Oct 31, 2011: 'Jilted lover' ends life, kin allege murder

TNN | Oct 31, 2011, 11.27AM IST

WARANGAL/KAMAREDDY: A man, who allegedly murdered a 24-year-old engineering student for rejecting his proposal, allegedly killed himself by jumping in front of a train in Warangal on Sunday. However, his relatives and villagers alleged that he was murdered. In another case in Kamareddy, a man allegedly killed an Intermediate student for refusing his proposal

Nazeer, 28, allegedly committed suicide in Hasanparthy mandal, 7 km from Warangal. He is accused of killing Banda Swathi, a final year engineering student, late on Saturday. Swathi, who hails from Dharmasagar mandal, was living at her uncle's house at Gopalapuram, and this is where Nazeer met her while frequenting her uncle's kirana shop. Nazeer's cousin Gouse Pasha, however, alleged he was murdered and his body thrown on the tracks.

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In another case, 17-year-old Rafiya, a second year Inter student, was killed allegedly by a jilted youth, Laxman, 22, in Kamareddy in Nizamabad district on Saturday. He attacked Rafiya and later slit his own throat. She died instantly while Laxman is critical. Laxman, who was living as a tenant in Rafiya's residence along with his friend Ranjith, was a native of Bichkunda mandaland was preparing for his teacher eligibility test. Cops later took Ranjith into custody.

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Oct 31, 2011: Minor girl raped by rickshaw puller

Press Trust of India, Updated Oct 31, 2011 07:14 IST

New Delhi: A minor girl was raped allegedly by a rickshaw puller in south Delhi, police said today.

The accused identified as Vijay Kumar, who was known to the victim, has been arrested.

The incident was reported from Mehrauli on Friday. The victim, who hails from Jharkhand, had moved to the capital a few months ago and was staying with her relatives.

On Friday, she had gone to the local market to get some food where she met Kumar.

"Kumar allegedly raped her after taking her to an isolated place. The girl told her relatives who then approached police," a senior police official said.

Kumar was arrested after a medical examination confirmed rape.

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Oct 31, 2011: Woman raped as hubby held at knifepoint

TNN | Oct 31, 2011, 05.08AM IST

NAVI MUMBAI: Two youths gangraped a female labourer, while her husband was held at knifepoint outside their hut in Ulwe near Belapuron Saturday.

NRI police arrested one of the accused, Pratap Narhari Patil , also a resident of Ulwe. The victim's husband said that two men in their 20s barged into their hut and threatened him with a knife. They then raped his wife and fled. Based on the husband's description, the cops were able to nab Patil.

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Oct 30, 2011: Over 5K children raped, another 1,408 murdered in 2010

PTI | Oct 30, 2011, 03.25PM IST

NEW DELHI: As many as 5,484 children were sexually assaulted and 1,408 others killed in different parts of the country last year, according to a government report.

Giving a gloomy picture about the crimes committed against children, the latest National Crime Records Bureau data says 10,670 children were also kidnapped or abducted during the year in various states and union territories.

In Uttar Pradesh, 315 children were killed while 1,182 children were sexually assaulted in Madhya Pradesh during the period -- the highest in the two categories of crimes.

There were 211 incidents of murder of children in Maharashtra, another 200 such cases in Bihar and 124 victims in Madhya Pradesh, it said.

Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh recorded 747, 451 and 446 cases of sexual assault respectively in the last year. Similarly, 382 and 369 such incidents came to light in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.

In Delhi, 29 children were murdered and 304 others were raped in 2010.

The national capital has reported the highest number of kidnapping of children in the country -- 2,982, followed by Bihar (1,359), Uttar Pradesh (1,225), Maharashtra (749), Rajasthan (706), Andhra Pradesh (581) and Gujarat (565).

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Oct 30, 2011: 85-yr-old woman gets life for bride burning

PTI | Oct 30, 2011, 10.01AM IST

NEW DELHI: An 85-year-old woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment along with her elder son for burning alive her younger son's wife for failing to fulfil her dowry demands.

Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain held Turkman Gate resident Husan Bano and her son Nasim guilty of harassing her younger son Nasiruddin's wife Gulnaz for dowry and burning her alive on the basis of her dying declaration.

"The dying declaration was made by deceased Gulnaz voluntarily narrating the true facts of incident, which resulted in her death and it was not the result of tutoring as contended by accused persons," said the court.

While relying upon the victim's dying declaration to convict the accused, the court brushed aside the defence counsel contention that her last statement was not supported by even the prosecution witnesses, including her husband, who had turned hostile.

"I hereby sentence both the convicts Husan Bano and Nasim with rigorous imprisonment for life," the judge said, while also imposing a fine of Rs 12,000 on each of them.

As per the prosecution, a day before the incident on October 22, 2008, Husan and Nasim had beaten Gulnaz for failing to bring dowry. The police said the next day when the victim woke up, Husan again picked up a fight with her, while Nasim doused her with kerosene oil and set her ablaze.

Hearing her cries, her husband Nasuriddun and their nephew Shoaib came out and after extinguishing the fire took her to a nearby hospital, where she died two months later.

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Oct 30, 2011: 10-year-old girl dragged to Saligao cemetery, molested

TNN | Oct 30, 2011, 06.44AM IST

PANAJI: A 10-year-old girl was molested by a scooterist who followed her while she was going to Saligao church on Saturday morning.

"The incident occurred at 7.30am. The victim's father informed us that his daughter was proceeding to the Saligao church on her bicycle to attend mass, when she was chased by a scooterist," a Calangute police official told TOI.

"The scooterist forced her to park her cycle. Then he dragged her and forcibly made her stand on the front of his scooter. The girl tried to escape, but in vain. Then the accused person took the girl to an isolated spot in the adjacent cemetery and forced her to sleep on the ground. He slept on her, when she started to cry out," the official said.

"Fearing that someone would hear the girl's cry and enter the cemetery, the accused took the girl back to the spot where she had left her cycle and disappeared from the scene," the police official added.

Calangute police said that the victim described the accused as dark in complexion, and around 5 feet 3 inches in height. He was riding a black colour motorcycle. Police have registered a molestation case against an unknown person and further investigation is in progress.

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Oct 30, 2011: Minor killed by neighbour for resisting rape

Indo-Asian News Service, Updated: Oct 30, 2011 07:18 IST

Lucknow: A minor girl was allegedly killed by a youth for resisting rape in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district, police said on Saturday. The youth was arrested.

Twelve-year-old Zohra (name changed), a native of Nidura locality, was on Thursday killed by her neighbour Raju, 22. Her body was recovered Friday from the house of the accused.

"We became suspicious about Raju when investigations pointed out that Zohra was last seen at his shop," Police Inspector Prakash Singh told reporters in Allahabad, some 200 km from here.

Raju abducted Zohra when she visited his grocery store for purchasing some items.

Raju took her to his house and tried to rape her. When Zohra tried to raise an alarm, he assaulted her with a brick.

Raju buried the victim's body inside his house.

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Oct 29, 2011: Four arrested for driving newly wed to suicide

PTI | Oct 14, 2011, 12.00PM IST

THANE: Four persons of a family have been arrested here on charges of harassing their newly wed daughter-in-law for dowry following which she committed suicide, police said.

Twenty-four-year-old Sameer Sudhakar Wadekar was married to Trupti last year. After few days, her in-laws started making exorbitant demands. The harassment increased day by day and she was locked in a room and not given any food, according to a complaint filed by the victim's father.

Fed up with the constant torture, Trupti hung herself to death with the help of a rope, police said.

Her body has been sent for postmortem and foursome--Sameer Wadekar, his mother Sushma (40) sisters Sunita (19) and Supriya (20) have been booked under several sections of the IPC.

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Oct 29, 2011: Dowry ‘demand’ lands two in jail

TNN | Oct 29, 2011, 01.47PM IST

HYDERABAD: Following a complaint lodged by a woman on Friday, her husband and father-in-law were arrested by sleuths of Women Police Station, South Zone, and booked for demanding additionaldowry of Rs three lakh.

Police said that Priyanka, a resident of Gowlipura, lodged a complaint against her husband, Srikanth and father-in-law Narsing Rao, both employees of a vernacular media organization, for demanding the additional dowry. According to the police, the couple got married in 2003 and have a one-year-old daughter. The relation between the couple got strained over time following alleged demands for money.

The accused, who are residents of Chaitanyapuri, at the time of marriage, reportedly took Rs three lakh dowry and 10 tola gold. "Priyanka had earlier too lodged a similar complaint of dowry harassment. But last time around, we counselled the two accused. This time however, we arrested the two and sent them to judicial custody,'' South Zone Women Police Station inspector A Madhavi Latha said.

The accused were arrested under Section 498 A (dowry harassment) of Indian Penal Code (IPC).
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Oct 29, 2011: Man sent to jail for raping daughter

TNN | Oct 29, 2011, 10.19PM IST

PATNA: In a gory case of incest, a railway employee was on Saturday forwarded to jail for allegedly raping his only daughter at their rented house at Vijay Nagar under the Patrakar Nagar police station area.

The 14-year-old victim alleged her father, a yard master posted at Garhara in Begusarai district, had been sexually assaulting her for quite some time. On Friday, when she returned from school, he entered her room and attempted to rape her again. When she resisted, he allegedly hit her with a stick and forced himself upon her, the Class IX student told police. The girl's mother, a housewife, and two brothers were not at home at the time of the incident.

SDPO (Sadar) Rashid Zaman said when the man went to the washroom after the crime, the girl bolted the door from outside and ran out of the house, raising an alarm. While shocked neighbours barged into the house and started thrashing the railway employee, someone called police. "Had we reached a little late, the mob would have lynched him," the SDPO said and added medical examination had confirmed rape and bruises on the girl's private parts.

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Oct 29, 2011: Man kills brother-in-law, arrested on spot

TNN | Oct 27, 2011, 05.44AM IST

AHMEDABAD: Sanjay Sagar, 28, a resident of Khodiyarnagar in Odhav, was stabbed to death by his brother- in-law, Sanjay Ajani. On Wednesday,Odhav police arrested Ajani and booked him for murder.

Police said that Sagar was killed when he tried to intervene when his sister and Ajani were quarreling. Gita Sagar, a resident of Khodiyarnagar, got married to Ajani who used to stay in Una near Surat two years back. However, owing to marital discord, Gita soon returned to her parents's house in Khodiyarnagar.
On Tuesday night Ajani had come to Khodiyarnagar to talk to his wife. The couple quarreled and Gita's brother Sagar tried to intervene. Ajani got angry at this interference and he stabbed Sagar in his stomach with a kitchen knife that was lying nearby.
Later, though, Ajani made no attempt to escape and waited for the police to reach the spot and arrest him. "He also confessed that he had killed his brother-in-law," said Odhav police.

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Oct 29, 2011: Man kills woman, lynched by mob

Indo-Asian News Service, Updated: Oct 28, 2011 07:39 IST

Lucknow: Mob justice ruled in a small town of Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district Thursday when a man was lynched by locals after he shot dead a woman over a petty dispute, police said.

Manish Kumar, 28, and seven of his accomplices killed Nisha Devi, 30, a shopkeeper in Jawan town. Kumar had an argument with Nisha Devi Wednesday over some purchases from her shop.

'Manish and his aides opened fire at the shop, killing Nisha and injuring a passerby,' police Inspector Bhim Singh told reporters in Aligarh, some 300 km from Lucknow.

Furious locals caught hold of Manish while his accomplices managed to escape. Manish was repeatedly attacked with bricks, iron rods and wooden sticks, and he died on the spot, the officer added.

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Oct 29, 2011: Jilted lover kills girl's aunt, brother, shoots himself

NDTV Correspondent, Updated: Oct 29, 2011 20:28 IST

Mumbai: A jilted lover killed the aunt and brother of his former girlfriend. After shooting them he finally turned the gun on himself.

The incident happened in the Dharavi area of Central Mumbai. The girl whose name is not known is married and does not stay in Dharavi anymore.

Police are investigating the incident.

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Oct 29, 2011: 19-year-old married girl abducted, sold for Rs 17,000

Press Trust of India, Updated: Oct 29, 2011 07:04 IST

Hingoli (Maharashtra): A 19-year-old married girl was abducted and sold for Rs 17,000 to a man in Rajasthan by three persons, police said on Friday.

Hasinabi Shaikh Amir, a resident of Katneshwar village in Purna tehsil of this district in Central Maharashtra, was abducted on October 20 and taken by train to Rajasthan, where she was sold for Rs 17,000, they said.

A case has been registered against the three suspects, Aktarkhan Hajratkhan Pathan, a resident of adjoining Parbhani district, Sayed Rafiqk Syed Abbas and Shaikh Noor alias Gabbar, both hailing from the victim's village, police said.

She had come to Kinhola village in Vasmat tehsil to meet her mother when she was kidnapped. Her husband lodged a missing person complaint with Purna police on October 22.

However, the man who bought Hasinabi set her free when he realised that she was three-month pregnant. She returned to Purna yesterday and lodged a police complaint, they added.

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Oct 29, 2011: Constable kills wife over her 'affair' with cousin

V Narayan, TNN | Oct 29, 2011, 01.28AM IST

MUMBAI: Upset at his wife's alleged affair with her cousin, a constable attached with the local arms department of the Mumbai police at Tardeo division, reportedly stabbed her to death in front of their two daughters. The MIDC police arrested Shatrughan Meshram (38) on Thursday.
The incident occurred around 11.30pm at Meshram's residence PNGP Colony in the MIDC-Andheri area on Thursday around 11.30pm when he had a fight with his wife Kavita (27), over her alleged affair.
Their two daughters aged seven and eight years witnessed the incident. "The altercation between the two worsened. In a fit of rage, Meshram stabbed his wife eight times on the abdomen, chest and back," said MIDC police senior inspector S L Hujband.
The accused told the investigators that he was unhappy that his wife was in regular touch with her uncle's son. "Meshram said on several occasions, he tried to counsel her and even warned her against meeting or continuing relations with the youth. On October 27 night, after a fight, Meshram killed his wife," said a police officer.
Inspector Deepak Bagwe said they arrested Meshram within an hour of the incident. "We have recorded the statements of his two daughters, aged seven and eight years, in front of whom their father repeatedly stabbed their mother. He has been booked for murder," he said.
Investigators said that Meshram had not reported for duty at Tardeo for the last two months.

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Oct 29, 2011: 'TV actor' alleges she was raped

TNN | Oct 29, 2011, 02.40AM IST

PANCHKULA: A 27-year-old Mohali woman has alleged raped by a Panchkula resident on Thursday. The woman, who claims to have worked in some TV serials, said Atul Kumar of Sector 11 raped her after giving her cold drink laced with intoxicant on the Morni road.

In her statement to the police, the victim said, "I have worked in some TV serials and now stay at home with my husband. I know Atul for the past four months. He used to claim that he knows directors and producers and would get me work. It was on Thursday that Atul called me around 1pm and said that one of his director friends had come to DT mall and I should come and meet him."
She said when she reached the mall, Atul told her that the director friend has left for Morni where the shooting of some movie was going on. "I then joined Atul to Morni in his car. On our way, Atul offered me a cold drink laced with some intoxicant and raped me in the car. Later, he threatened me of dire consequences if I told about the incidence to anyone. He dropped me to DT mall from where I called my husband," she said.
According to sources, Atul denied knowing the victim, saying he went to the mall after lunch on Thursday but only to get movie tickets. No arrests made till the filing of the report. Talking to TOI, additional SHO, Chandimandir, Malkit Singh said, "We are trying to locate Atul."

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Oct 29, 2011: Woman raped, murdered in Nalasopara

Nitasha Natu | Oct 29, 2011, 01.24AM IST

MUMBAI: In a shocking incident, the naked body of a young woman was found lying on the first-floor slab of an under-construction building at Nalasopara (E) on Wednesday night. A medicalexamination confirmed that the victim, who is aged between 25 to 30 years, had been raped.

The victim has been identified as Krishnaa Mahapatra. Officials said the body was trapped between iron rods and the victim must have been pushed off from a height. Her clothes were recovered from the fourth floor, where she could have been raped and then thrown off from. Three persons have been detained for questioning.
Mahapatra stayed at Shirdi Nagar in Nalasopara with her husband. She worked as a diamond setter with a jeweller at Borivli. Her husband, who is a driver, identified her on Friday evening. Sources said she may have been gangraped.
There were no witnesses to the incident on Wednesday night. Residents said there was no power in the area due to load-shedding. Besides, there was a lot of smoke and noise from firecrackers being burst for Diwali. As a result, nobody heard her cries for help. "We reached the spot early on Thursday after locals spotted the body and informed us. Krishnaa is around 5 ft 4 inches tall. She wore a bindi on her forehead and blue nail polish on her fingernails, which led us to believe that she came from a middle-class background," an official said.
The under-construction building where the incident took place is located near Vasant Nagari at Vijaya Laxmi Nagar. The construction at the site is being supervised by one Rambachan Paswan. "We are making inquiries with the site supervisor as well. A case has been registered under Sections 302 and 376 of the IPC," the official said. No arrests have been made yet.

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Oct 29, 2011: 50-yr-old rapes, kills neighbour's 7-yr-old daughter

TNN | Oct 29, 2011, 01.22AM IST

MUMBAI: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered by her neighbour in Goregaon (W) on Friday. The accused, Babasaheb Kamble (50), was beaten up by residents and handed over to the cops. The incident took place at Kranti Nagar in Teen Dongri slums where both the families reside. Kamble, an autorickshaw driver, was drunk at the time of the incident. He has been arrested.

In 2000, Kamble was booked in a murder case and was also accused of theft and burglaries in the past. On Friday afternoon, the victim was playing outside her house. When she did not return, her parents started searching for her. But they could not find her for several hours and approached their neighbours for help. As soon as Kamble opened the door,, at 6.20pm, the girl's parents found her lying unconscious in his house. 
The girl was taken to Siddharth Hospital in Goregaon where she was declared dead by doctors. Her body was later taken to Cooper Hospital for a post-mortem. Police suspect that Kamble either smothered or strangulated the girl after raping her.
The victim's post-mortem report is awaited. "Kamble had summoned the girl to his residence. He usually did so when he wanted her to run errands for him. We are now trying to find out how and why Kamble killed the girl," DCP Mahesh Patil said. Kamble's medical reports have tested positive for alcohol consumption. He has been booked for rape and murder. He underwent a medical examination and will be produced before a local court on Saturday. The incident has sparked an outrage in the neighbourhood.

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Oct 28, 2011: Delhi remains rape capital

Vishwa Mohan, TNN | Oct 28, 2011, 08.35AM IST

NEW DELHI: Crime in India increased by 4.9% in 2010 with relatively smaller cities like Kochi, Bhopal and Indore reporting higher crime rate - number of crimes per lakh of population - compared to biggies like Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.

The capital, however, reported the highest number of 'rape' cases (414) followed by Mumbai (194) among 35 'mega' cities in the country.

These mega cities, having population of over 10 lakh, collectively reported 3,68,883 crimes under the Indian Penal Code in 2010, a rise of 7.3% compared to 3,43,749 crimes in 2009. Although the official crime figures - released by home minister P Chidambaram for the year 2010 on Thursday - showed the usual trends of increase in most crime incidents in India, cases of new age cyber crime jumped substantially by 89.9% last year compared to 2009. Among states, UP accounted for the highest 33.9% of the total crime reported in India last year followed by Andhra Pradesh (13.9%) and TN (11.4%). Overall, the country reported 22,24,831 crimes in 2010 compared to 21,21,345 such incidents in 2009.

Crimes against Schedule Castes (SC), however, declined by 2.6%. Compared to 33,594 cases of crimes against SCs in 2009, 32,712 cases were reported in 2010.

Since crime 'rate' is universally taken as a realistic indicator because it balances the effect of population growth, its increase in cities like Kochi, Bhopal, Indore, Jaipur, Jabalpur , Vijaywada, Patna and Vishakhapatnam will throw a new challenge for the respective state governments. Officials attribute this trend to relatively lesser policing in these cities compared to cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata.

Interestingly, Dhanbad, Chennai, Madurai and Kolkata were the only four mega cities which reported lesser rate of IPC crimes than their domain states - Jharkhand, TN and West Bengal respectively.

The figures, compiled by the home ministry's National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), are widely referred to by policy makers, police personnel , researchers, NGOs and other stake holders. The Bureau comes out with data on crime in India every year.

"The NCRB has planned to bring out the next edition of these reports (covering the Indian crime scene of the year 2011) in the month of April 2012," a home ministry official said. The bureau hopes that the ongoing 'Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems' (CCTNS) - connecting 15,000 police stations and 6,000 other higher police offices in the country - will be rolled out by March next year, making it possible to compile crime figures on time. The figures show that cases of kidnapping and abduction reported highest increase (13.5%) among all 'violent' crimes in India followed by robbery (4.4%), rape (3.6%) and murder (3%). Report also has separate chapters on policing and police infrastructure.

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Oct 28, 2011: Engineer bros kill youth for stalking sister

TNN | Oct 28, 2011, 06.52AM IST

BANGALORE: Two brothers, a software engineer and a mechanical engineer, dreamt of making their sister a scientist and got her enrolled in one of the best colleges in the city. And when a young lad had a crush on her, they beat him to death.

K Manjunath, K Selva Kumar and their relative R Raju allegedly beat up K Deepak (18) in Bangalore's Islampur, near Srirampura, after they found that he had fallen in love with their sister. The airport police arrested the trio on Thursday.

The police said the three assaulted Deepak inside a building under construction near their home, on Wednesday afternoon. "They smashed his head against the wall, which proved fatal," a police officer said.

On Wednesday, Selva Kumar and Manjunath spotted Deepak near their house, and asked him what he was doing. "The accused claim they had warned him. Deepak had also agreed not to meet Sowmya again. Selva Kumar and Manjunath were enraged to see Deepak hanging around their house," the officer said.

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Oct 27, 2011: Most rapes in Delhi, Mumbai is second

Press Trust of India, Updated Oct 27, 2011 19:45 IST

New Delhi: Delhi is perhaps the most unsafe city of women as 414 rape cases were reported in the national capital in 2010, the highest among 35 major cities in the country, while Mumbai followed it with 194 such incidents.

According to government statistics released today, 23 percent of rape cases in these urban areas took place in Delhi and 10.8 percent in Mumbai.

A total of 1,422 kidnapping or abduction of women have taken place in Delhi last year which is 37.7 percent of the total cases in 35 major cities.

There were 112 dowry deaths and 1,273 incidents of cruelty by husband, or relatives in Delhi last year, said the report of the national crime control bureau.

In Mumbai, there were 146 incidents of kidnapping of women, 21 dowry deaths and 312 incidents of cruelty by husband or relatives during last year.

Pune reported third highest number of 91 rape cases in 2010 followed by Jabalpur where 81 rapes took place last year.

Software city Bangalore recorded 65 incidents of rape while Indore reported 69 incidents of rape last year.

Among the states, Madhya Pradesh reported the highest number of rape - 3,135 incidents - in 2010 followed by West Bengal where 2,311 cases were reported last year.

Assam, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh reported 1,721, 1,599,1,563 and 1,362 cases respectively.

There were 1,012 incidents of rape in Chhattisgarh, 1,025 in Orissa and 795 in Bihar.

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Oct 27, 2011: Delhi duo held for rape in Mumbai

S Ahmed Ali, TNN | Oct 27, 2011, 04.08AM IST

MUMBAI: The Dongri police arrested two youths from Delhi on Sunday on charges of raping a girl in the city. Omprakash alias Pal Yadav (26) and Wahid Ali alias Shahid Sayyed (23) will be brought to the city.

The police had earlier arrested Asif Khan and Mahmood Shaikh, and are looking out for Nabila alias Shiza and her husband Mehmod Siddiqui alias Mammu.

The police said the victim ran away from Delhi after a fight with her parents in August . In Mumbai, she stayed with her friend Nabila and her husband, at Afzal Mansion, Sarang Street, Dongri.

A week later, Nabila spiked her drink, after which she was raped by Nabila's husband, Asif and Ayaz. Nabila video-recorded the incident with a mobile phone camera and threatened to expose her.

The girl fled and with the help of an NGO, returned to Mumbai, and lodged a police complaint.

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Oct 26, 2011: Railway engineer gets 10-yr RI for murdering wife

Alok Mishra, TNN | Oct 26, 2011, 07.17AM IST

PATNA: The court of ADJ IX V N Singh on Tuesday awarded 10-year rigorous imprisonment to Rajiv Singh, an engineer with the Indian Railways, for murdering his wife, Rani Archana Singh, for dowry.
Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) Sudhir Kumar Sinha said the court also awarded two-year punishment to Singh for torturing Rani for dowry and two years for concealing evidence. All the punishments would run concurrently, he said.
Sinha had submitted in the court that Rani, daughter of retired ADJ Subhash Chandra Prasad and native of Patna, was married to Rajiv -- a Lalji Tola resident -- in April, 2007. He said soon after the marriage, Rajiv and his family members started torturing her for dowry. "They were demanding Rs 2 lakh from Rani's parents to decorate the newly constructed upper floor of their house," the APP argued.
On August 10, 2007, without any prior programme, Rajiv along with Rani left for Jalpaiguri by Capital Express, added. Four days later while returning to Patna from New Jalpaiguri by the Capital Express, Rajiv claimed that his wife went missing from the train. He lodged a complaint in this regard with the GRP Mokama on August 15, 2007.
The APP contended that during investigation, Mokama GRP found the case to be false and submitted a final report against Rajiv and recommended institution of a separate case against him for lodging a false case.
"In the meantime, Rani's mother Malti Devi filed a complaint petition in the court of the CJM, Patna, alleging murder of her daughter for dowry," the APP said. The court had forwarded Malti Devi's petition to the Gandhi Maidan police station for investigation.
Sinha said an FIR was lodged against Rajiv for harassing his wife and killing her for dowry.
The APP said that six days after Rani went missing from the Capital Express, an unidentified body of a woman was recovered from Katihar section of the railways. The Azamnagar police, who recovered the body, sent it for autopsy, he said and added that the viscera was preserved.
Later the Gandhi Maidan police brought the preserved viscera to Patna and matched it with the blood samples of Rani's parents for DNA test, Sinha said. He said in the DNA test, the viscera matched with the blood samples proving that the unidentified body was that of Rani's.

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Oct 26, 2011: 26-yr-old rescued from prostitution in Goa

TNN | Oct 26, 2011, 04.18AM IST

MARGAO: Acting on a complaint filed by a women's organization, Savera, the Colva police late Monday night rescued a 26-year old woman forced into prostitution. Shabnam Shaikh from Rajasthan and Basa Dadapir from Margao were arrested on charges of immoral trafficking of women.

Police sources said that the victim was brought from Mumbra in Maharashtra by the accused on the pretext of offering her employment around two weeks ago. On reaching Goa, she was confined to a rented room at Betalbatim and forced to engage in the flesh trade.
On being tipped off, Savera sent a decoy posing as a customer to the victim on Monday night following which the police were alerted. The Colva police rescued the woman.

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Oct 26, 2011: Woman scripts rescue from brothel

S Ahmed Ali, TNN | Oct 26, 2011, 07.38AM IST

MUMBAI: A 20-year-old newly married woman, who was kidnapped from Bangalore and forced into flesh trade in Mumbai , was rescued along with three others, thanks to her presence of mind.

The women were rescued from a brothel in Lamington Road. The police arrested the brothel keeper, Sumita Narayan Pujari (40). Two of Pujari's associates are wanted in the case. The accused have been booked on charges of abduction , cheating and under provisions of the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act.

The victim has now been admitted to JJ hospital as the brothel keeper and her associates assaulted her after she refused to entertain customers.

She hails from a small village in Bangarpeth, 80 km from Bangalore. Since her husband works in Mumbai, she went to her visit mother.

On October 5, she was waiting at Majestic railway station in Bangalore to take a local to the area where her in-laws reside . Here, two men tried to strike a conversation with her, said a police officer. "She got scared and returned to her mother's village. She came to the station the next day, but was shocked to see the two men there again. However, they approached her and asked her why she left the day before. After chatting with her, they offered her tea laced with sedatives . The woman fell unconscious after having tea. When she came to, she found herself in a cab with the men, who took her to Jamana Mansion in Khetwadi Lane," he said.

The two men had sold her to Pujari for Rs 40,000, the officer said. "Within a week, Pujari sent customers to her, but she refused to entertain them. She did this till recently, when she took one customer into confidence and narrated her story to him. He agreed to help her. Through him, she called up her husband," said the officer.

"Her husband, with the help of a local leader, approached the social service branch.Posing as a customer, he went to Jamana mansion along with police personnel. There, Pujari paraded a few girls before him. As soon as he saw his wife, he signalled the police team waiting outside. The team, led by assistant commissioner of police, Vasant Dhoble raided the brothel, resuced the victim and three other girls," said the officer.

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Oct 25, 2011: 40-year-old raped, her daughter killed

TNN | Oct 25, 2011, 02.44AM IST

BAREILLY: A 40-year-old woman was allegedly rape and her 17-year-old daughter murdered in village Bhai Rampur. Police on Monday said that incident took place on October 22. In her complaint, the woman accused three persons, including husband of the village pradhan, of raping her and killing her daughter.

She also alleged that her neighbour Naresh knocked at her door and asked for a hammer, on the pretext of repairing her shop.
When she opened the door, Naresh along with Jaleel Ahmed (husband of village pradhan) and Bhup Singh forced their way into her house, pushed her to the ground and allegedly raped her. Hearing her screams, her daughter woke up and tried to save her mother but the trio stabbed the girl to death with knives, the police said adding that the trio fled from the spot after the incident and are still absconding. tnn
Senior police officials, including DIG Prakash D and SP (Rural) Anil Kumar visited the village. They sent the woman for medical examination and body of the daughter for post-mortem. A police official said, "According to the post-mortem report, the girl was murdered with a sharp-edged weapon and bruises were also present on her stomach. We have started investigation into the matter."
Meanwhile, Jaleel Ahmed sent a letter to the official saying that he was being framed as part of a political conspiracy by his rivals. Even, the father of the girl, who works in Delhi, arrived in the village on Saturday and joined the villagers in maintaining silence over the issue.

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Oct 25, 2011: Godman rapes minor

TNN | Oct 25, 2011, 03.37PM IST

GONDIA: A godman in village Amgaon Khurd inSalekasa tehsil is reported to have raped a 13-year-old girl after taking advantage of the good faith shown by her father on Saturday, October 22.
A man from village Limba had taken his 13-year-old daughter to Baba Santosh Trivedi of village Amgaon Kurd for treatment on Saturday. After the 'so called' examination, the baba told him to bring some material from the market for her treatment. Once the father went to the market, the baba reportedly raped the girl. He also threatened her with dire consequences if she disclosed this to anybody, and described it as part of the treatment.
The girl somehow kept quiet till she reached home. There, she told the entire story to her mother. The matter was then reported to Salekasa police station. PI Santosh Sabale filed offences against Trivedi on October 22 and arrested him. Trivedi hails from Deodongari of Katang district of MP and has been staying in this village for the last 10 years.

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Oct 24, 2011: Three held for 'gangraping' teen

TNN | Oct 24, 2011, 12.54PM IST

BHUBANESWAR: Police on Sunday detained three persons for allegedly gangraping a 16-year-old girl near the Baramunda bus stand here recently. The three suspected rapists are smalltime vendors, sources said.

On Wednesday evening, the teenager was waiting to catch a bus for going to her uncle's house in Bhanjanagar, when a man offered her a cold drink. The girl, who had reportedly fled her house in Cuttack, mistook him as a generous man and went to his house, where he, along with two others, allegedly outraged her modesty.
Police, following media reports, lodged a complaint on Saturday and conducted medical examination on her. "We have detained three persons from the area where the incident occurred. We are interrogating them," a police officer said.
Recently, a college student was offered lift in a car and allegedly gangraped inside the vehicle in Bhubaneswar. One of her tormentors was familiar with her.

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Oct 24, 2011: Minor raped in outer Delhi

TNN | Oct 24, 2011, 07.11AM IST

New Delhi: A person has been arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old student in Sultanpuri area of outer district, said police. The accused, Deshraj (20), is a resident of the same area. "We had registered a case on the basis of victim's statement. The accused was nabbed on Sunday. Deshraj is a school dropout," said a senior cop. The accused lured the victim while she was coming back from school and raped her after taking her to an isolated spot, said police.

The girl reported the matter to her parents who in turn informed cops. "The girl would sometimes talk to Deshraj on her way back from school," said cops.

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Oct 24, 2011: Man suspects wife of two-timing, kills her

TNN | Oct 24, 2011, 07.10AM IST

NEW DELHI: A 26-year-old man was arrested in southeast Delhi for allegedly murdering his wife on Thursday after he suspected her of infidelity. The accused, identified as Ashwani, is a waiter with tent houses. The victim, identified as Sheetal, was found in a house in Shakti Nagar, with multiple injuries on her face and neck along with strangulation marks on her neck, said police.

"There was a quarrel between the couple on the day prior the murder. Ashwani strangled Sheetal and was arrested from Satya Niketan," said Ajay Chaudhry, additional commissioner of police (southeast). According to police, Ashwani had married Sheetal after a love marriage. However, he grew suspicious of Sheetal's character later. He even fell in love with another woman, Neha, and married her. This led to his constant fights with Sheetal, said cops.

The accused shifted to a rented accomodation in Shakti Vihar with Neha, said cops. "Sheetal came to know about his new address and she started living with them since the last 10-12 days," said Additional CP Chaudhry.

On Thursday night, Ashwani allegedly asked Neha to leave with his two-year-old son and meet him near Meetha Pur Chowk. "Ashwani strangled Sheetal after Neha left home and fled from the spot," said a senior cop.

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Oct 24, 2011: Pregnant woman raped by 58-year-old 'family friend'

TNN | Oct 24, 2011, 06.01AM IST

NEW DELHI: A 58-year-old businessman has been arrested for allegedly raping his employee's pregnant wife. The accused Jagjit Singh, a resident of Punjabi Bagh, was arrested on Friday.

Police said the victim - who is two months pregnant - and her husband were having problems in their relationship and Singh used to visit them to sort out their issues. On October 16, Singh called the victim on the pretext of counselling her. During the conversation, he allegedly offered her a soft drink laced with sedatives.
After she fell unconscious Singh drove the car to Chandigarh and raped her in a hotel. He then threatened her to not to disclose to anyone what had happened. Later, when the victim's husband questioned her, she broke down and narrated the incident. Her husband then lodged a police complaint.

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Oct 24, 2011: Woman raped at Vasant Kunj hotel

TNN | Oct 24, 2011, 06.07AM IST

NEW DELHI: A 30-year-old sales executive was arrested for allegedly raping a 26-year-old woman at a hotel in Vasant Kunj in south Delhi on Sunday afternoon.
The incident was reported around 2.10pm when police received a PCR call from the woman who claimed that she had been raped. The police rushed to the hotel and the man, identified as Khem Krishna Mitra, was arrested from the spot, said cops.
The victim, a resident of Buddh Vihar who also worked as a sales executive, has alleged that the man called her to the hotel where he was staying and raped her, said the police.
"We received a call and rushed to the spot and apprehended the accused.
An MLC of the victim confirmed rape following which we registered a formal case and arrested the accused. The accused is from Nimaj in Madhya Pradesh and was on tour in Delhi," said a senior police officer investigating the case.
Khem works at a travel agency in Madhya Pradesh and would frequently travel to Delhi for work. Sources said the accused knew the victim for the past four years.
According to cops, the victim had gone to meet Khem in his hotel on Sunday morning.

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Oct 24, 2011: Five-year-old abducted, raped

TNN | Oct 24, 2011, 05.59AM IST

JAIPUR: A five-year-old girl was abducted from her house at Jodhpuria Basti in Jhunjhunu district and raped by a man on Sunday. The accused has been arrested.

The incident took place in the wee hours when the victim was sleeping with her parents in the porch of their house. Around 1.30 am, when the mother of the girl woke up, she was shocked to find that she was missing, police said.
Soon, an alarm was raised and the family lodged a complaint with the police. Later, the police found the girl from Mandawa road.
"She was unconscious and was rushed to the government hospital. Later, based on the statement of the victim, we arrested a youth identified as Mahesh on the charges of kidnapping and raping the girl," said superintendent of police, Shivlal Joshi.
The accused was manhandled by an irate mob when he was brought to the area. The youth has been booked under Sections 384 and 376 of Indian Penal Code.

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Oct 24, 2011: Youth held for making porn CD

TNN | Oct 24, 2011, 02.08AM IST

PATNA: A police team from Gaya along with Digha police on Sunday arrested a youth, Amit Charles, on the charge of making a porn CD of her girlfriend.

Digha police station SHO Suryakant Choubey said that a two-member Gaya police team led by SI D Gehlaut reached Digha police station and sought cooperation for arresting the youth, against whom her girlfriend had lodged a written complaint with the Civil Lines police station in Gaya for making her porn CD.
Choubey said that Amit was arrested from Fairfield Colony. "The youth was taken to Gaya by the police. His marriage was to be solemnized in a day or two," he added.

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Oct 23, 2011: Beau killed girl seeking marriage

TNN | Oct 22, 2011, 02.36AM IST

PANCHKULA: Two days after a 24-year-old girl was found murdered in Mansa Devi Complex (MDC) area, Panchkula police on Friday claimed to have solved the case by arresting two youths Sunil and Babloo, who were allegedly involved in the murder.

According to sources in police, Pooja's boyfriend Sunil had murdered her with the help of his friend Babloo by strangulating her. Pooja was having an affair with Sunil for the past three years and was pressing him to marry her, added sources. Sunil was the driver of a bus hired by Vardhaman Factory where the deceased also worked.
Police arrested the accused from Sector 20, when they were about to flee Bihar.
They will be produced in the court tomorrow.
On October 19 Suman, a resident of Bhainsa Tibba village in MDC area found Pooja murdered near an under-construction shop in the wee hours of the morning.
"Several times the couple had a tiff over the issue of marriage. One day Sunil called Pooja to meet him at 11pm. There he had a talk with her for about 15 minutes in which the topic of marriage arose again and later turned into a fight, following which he strangulated her with her dupatta. For about one-and-a-half hour they kept the body with them in the bus and around 2.30am they threw her body near the shops," said sub-inspector Deepak Kumar.

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