Kolkata Rape Case

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.

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.

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.

Table tennis player and Olympian Soumyajit Ghosh, has been accused of allegedly raping an 18-year-old girl, after promising her of marriage. A complaint was lodged against Mr Ghosh and his family members with police in West Bengal's Barasat on Wednesday.

38-year-old was given life imprisonment for raping his minor daughter who he had gotten pregnant twice after she was raped by her him. Incidents of rape occurred three years ago in Kolkata, according to a public prosecutor. A court in Maharashtra delivered the verdict of the case today.

Two teachers of the GD Birla Education Centre in south Kolkata were arrested under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences or POSCO Act on Friday evening for sexually assaulting a four year old student on Thursday.

A teenage girl died and another was struggling for life as they attempted suicide after being allegedly raped by their male friends in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district, police said on Monday.

The arrest of the prime accused in the Park Street rape triggered elation among the late rape survivor's family and supporters on Friday, and they wished the out-spoken anti-rape campaigner was alive to see the dramatic turn of events.

More than four years after the infamous Park Street gangrape case, Kolkata Police has arrested the main accused from Uttar Pradesh.

A day after a 12-year-old girl was raped and murdered by two men who work as Ola cab drivers, outraged Kolkata took to the streets. The opposition Congress led the charge, leading a rally from the area in central Kolkata where the girl was kidnapped.

Two women of Kamduni village near Kolkata turned from young, class 10-pass housewives into inspiring campaigners for justice for their neighbour who was brutally gang raped and murdered in 2013.

A professor of a top film institute in Kolkata has been arrested for allegedly raping a student in May 2014.

The special public prosecutor in Suzette Jordan's gang rape case, Sharbani Roy, was summarily axed by the West Bengal government from its panel of lawyers.

The three men who were convicted yesterday of gang-raping a woman, who they had abducted from Kolkata's Park Street in 2012, have been sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Suzette Jordan, gang-raped in Kolkata in 2012, dismissed by the chief minister as a liar, vilified for going to a night club alone and taking a lift from strangers, died waiting for justice.

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.

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.

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.

Table tennis player and Olympian Soumyajit Ghosh, has been accused of allegedly raping an 18-year-old girl, after promising her of marriage. A complaint was lodged against Mr Ghosh and his family members with police in West Bengal's Barasat on Wednesday.

38-year-old was given life imprisonment for raping his minor daughter who he had gotten pregnant twice after she was raped by her him. Incidents of rape occurred three years ago in Kolkata, according to a public prosecutor. A court in Maharashtra delivered the verdict of the case today.

Two teachers of the GD Birla Education Centre in south Kolkata were arrested under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences or POSCO Act on Friday evening for sexually assaulting a four year old student on Thursday.

A teenage girl died and another was struggling for life as they attempted suicide after being allegedly raped by their male friends in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district, police said on Monday.

The arrest of the prime accused in the Park Street rape triggered elation among the late rape survivor's family and supporters on Friday, and they wished the out-spoken anti-rape campaigner was alive to see the dramatic turn of events.

More than four years after the infamous Park Street gangrape case, Kolkata Police has arrested the main accused from Uttar Pradesh.

A day after a 12-year-old girl was raped and murdered by two men who work as Ola cab drivers, outraged Kolkata took to the streets. The opposition Congress led the charge, leading a rally from the area in central Kolkata where the girl was kidnapped.

Two women of Kamduni village near Kolkata turned from young, class 10-pass housewives into inspiring campaigners for justice for their neighbour who was brutally gang raped and murdered in 2013.

A professor of a top film institute in Kolkata has been arrested for allegedly raping a student in May 2014.

The special public prosecutor in Suzette Jordan's gang rape case, Sharbani Roy, was summarily axed by the West Bengal government from its panel of lawyers.

The three men who were convicted yesterday of gang-raping a woman, who they had abducted from Kolkata's Park Street in 2012, have been sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Suzette Jordan, gang-raped in Kolkata in 2012, dismissed by the chief minister as a liar, vilified for going to a night club alone and taking a lift from strangers, died waiting for justice.