Kolkata Rape

Two judges of Calcutta High Court bench which ordered a CBI probe into alleged cases of rape and murder in West Bengal, termed as "uncalled for" an NHRC panel making recommendations and dismissed suggestions that some of its members were biased.

The Calcutta High Court today ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into "heinous crimes of murder and rape" after the results of the West Bengal election was announced.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is leading a protest march against what has come to be known as the Hathras horror - the alleged rape and fatal assault of a 20-year-old Dalit woman, and her 2:30AM cremation by Uttar Pradesh Police without the family's consent or presence leading to nationwide outrage.

One person has been arrested by Kolkata Police from West Bengal's Hooghly district for his alleged involvement in posting threats of rape and acid attacks to actress Swastika Mukherjee on social media, police said on Friday.

A 12-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by four men, including two of her close friends, at a birthday party, the police said.

Charred body of a 17-year-old girl was found under a culvert in West Bengal's South Dinajpur district, police said on Tuesday.

A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped in Kolkata's Garden Reach area after she was locked up in the bathroom of a building, police said on Friday.

A National Commission for Women (NCW) fact finding team has said the mentally unsound woman of a shelter home who was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped in Kolkata has still not been given any protection, adding that it has found irregularities in the functioning of the facility.

A taxi driver has been arrested in Kolkata's southern outskirts over alleged abduction and rape of a shelter home inmate, a senior police officer said on Sunday.

An inmate of a home for mentally ill women in the city was abducted from road and gang raped after she went out at night breaking a lock, the police said on Wednesday.

Renowned Bengali filmmaker and theatre personality Sudipto Chatterjee, accused of rape and sexual assault, has been sent to two-day policy custody by a court in Kolkata, the police said.

A court in Kolkata sentenced a man on Thursday to life imprisonment for raping and impregnating a teenager, one of the fastest convictions in a POCSO case within a week of the registration of a complaint.

A girl was allegedly raped inside Fort William, Indian Army's Eastern Command headquarters in Kolkata today, the police said.

A city court Thursday sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a two-and-a-half- year-old girl in the city in 2013.

A city court Tuesday sentenced a 22-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a girl after forcibly marrying her at a temple.

Two judges of Calcutta High Court bench which ordered a CBI probe into alleged cases of rape and murder in West Bengal, termed as "uncalled for" an NHRC panel making recommendations and dismissed suggestions that some of its members were biased.

The Calcutta High Court today ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into "heinous crimes of murder and rape" after the results of the West Bengal election was announced.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is leading a protest march against what has come to be known as the Hathras horror - the alleged rape and fatal assault of a 20-year-old Dalit woman, and her 2:30AM cremation by Uttar Pradesh Police without the family's consent or presence leading to nationwide outrage.

One person has been arrested by Kolkata Police from West Bengal's Hooghly district for his alleged involvement in posting threats of rape and acid attacks to actress Swastika Mukherjee on social media, police said on Friday.

A 12-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by four men, including two of her close friends, at a birthday party, the police said.

Charred body of a 17-year-old girl was found under a culvert in West Bengal's South Dinajpur district, police said on Tuesday.

A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped in Kolkata's Garden Reach area after she was locked up in the bathroom of a building, police said on Friday.

A National Commission for Women (NCW) fact finding team has said the mentally unsound woman of a shelter home who was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped in Kolkata has still not been given any protection, adding that it has found irregularities in the functioning of the facility.

A taxi driver has been arrested in Kolkata's southern outskirts over alleged abduction and rape of a shelter home inmate, a senior police officer said on Sunday.

An inmate of a home for mentally ill women in the city was abducted from road and gang raped after she went out at night breaking a lock, the police said on Wednesday.

Renowned Bengali filmmaker and theatre personality Sudipto Chatterjee, accused of rape and sexual assault, has been sent to two-day policy custody by a court in Kolkata, the police said.

A court in Kolkata sentenced a man on Thursday to life imprisonment for raping and impregnating a teenager, one of the fastest convictions in a POCSO case within a week of the registration of a complaint.

A girl was allegedly raped inside Fort William, Indian Army's Eastern Command headquarters in Kolkata today, the police said.

A city court Thursday sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a two-and-a-half- year-old girl in the city in 2013.

A city court Tuesday sentenced a 22-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a girl after forcibly marrying her at a temple.