India Sex Crimes

New India sex crime laws not tough enough: UN rapportuer

Agence France-Presse | Wednesday May 1, 2013

The UN Special Rapporteur quoted one person on her trip as describing violence against women as spanning the "life cycle from womb to the tomb".

Sex crimes related to watching pornography?

Written by Rashmi Rajput | Wednesday April 24, 2013

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Sunny Leone, John Abraham on porn debate

Agence France-Presse | Wednesday April 24, 2013

Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny became one of the most searched names on the Internet in India when she arrived in 2011 to appear in a reality TV series. Since then, she's starred in erotic thriller Jism 2 and features in a raunchy item number called '...

Sex crimes: are children becoming easy targets?

Written by Saurabh Gupta | Sunday April 21, 2013

Are children becoming easy targets for sexual predators in this country? The events of the last week certainly seem to suggest so. A five-year-old girl raped in the national capital, a six-year-old girl raped in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, a seven-year...

After gang-rape, India struggles to put words into action

Agence France-Presse | Monday April 8, 2013

A hundred days after India mourned the death of the medical student who was gang-raped and vowed to fight sex crimes, the torn clothes and tears of another woman bear testimony to a tide of violence that refuses to ebb.

Report on tougher laws on rape, crime against women submitted to the government

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Wednesday January 23, 2013

A government commission tasked with looking at India's sex crime laws after the gang-rape of a student on a New Delhi bus has submitted its report, which is expected to recommend tougher sentences.

Non-vegetarians lie, cheat, commit sex crimes: school textbook

Reported by Sunetra Choudhury; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Saturday November 17, 2012

After an NDTV story which showed a Class 6 textbook that says meat-eaters cheat, lie and commit sex crimes, the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) has said that school books used across the country are not monitored for content.

I hang head in shame: Haryana chief minister's wife

Press Trust of India | Wednesday October 17, 2012

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's wife Asha Hooda on Wednesday said her "head hangs in shame" when the state, a frontrunner in many areas, is pointed out for negative things that include adverse sex ratio and recent incidents of crimes a...

Indian-American teacher heads to jail for sex with minor

Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday July 24, 2012

A former Indian-American principal of a New York Montessori school has surrendered to authorities to begin a two-to-seven-year prison term for sex with one of her 13-year-old students.

Govt clears landmark bill: Under-18 sex a criminal offence

Press Trust of India | Friday April 27, 2012

The Cabinet today approved amendments in a Bill under which any sexual activity, even consensual, with a person below the age of 18 would be considered an offence.

Woman allegedly strangled to death by husband for giving birth to girl

NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday April 17, 2012

India's shameful and sordid story of unwanted daughters continues. In the latest incident, a woman in Amritsar was allegedly strangled to death by her husband after she gave birth to a baby girl for the third time.

Anand Jon gets 59 years in jail for sex crimes

Press Trust of India | Tuesday September 1, 2009

Indian-American fashion designer was on Tuesday sentenced to 59 years in prison by a court for sexually assaulting aspiring models.