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Taking A Minor's Confession Of Crime Is Unconstitutional: Delhi High Court
Seeking a confession about an alleged crime committed by a juvenile is "unconstitutional" as a "presumption is raised at the pre-trial stage itself that the child has committed the offence," the Delhi High Court has said.
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Girl On Scooty Kept Honking At Hearing Impaired Man. She Then Stabbed Him
A 15-year-old girl allegedly stabbed to death a differently-abled man in Chhattisgarh's Raipur in an incident of road rage.
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Delhi Police Arrest 13-Year-Old For Drowning Baby In Water Tank
A 13-year-old boy was apprehended for allegedly killing an infant by drowning him in a water tank in east Delhi's Dallupura area, police said on Thursday.
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Odisha Court Sentences Minor To 10-Years Imprisonment For Raping Teen
A court in Odishas Keonjhar district sentenced a juvenile to 10 years of imprisonment on Monday for raping a 15-year-old girl.
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Fast-Track Probe, Trial Of Sexual Offences Against Minors: Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday asked state chief secretaries to device a mechanism to ensure that investigation and trial in sexual offences like rape against girls under the age of 12 are completed within two months of the crime.
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Minor Dalit Girl Refused To Share Her Mobile Number. Enraged, He Set Her On Fire
A minor Dalit girl was set on fire at her house in Uttar Pradesh allegedly by her neighbour on Tuesday after she refused to share her mobile number with him. According to police, the man assaulted the minor girl, beating her badly, before sprinkling kerosene on her.
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Hyderabad Madrasa Teacher Held For Sexually Abusing Minor Boys
A 23-year-old madrasa teacher has been arrested in Hyderabad after he was accused of sexually assaulting six minor boys of the institute, police said today.
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3 Children Raped, 4 Sexually Assaulted In Separate Cases In A Day In Uttar Pradesh
Three young girls were raped and four other minors were sexually assaulted in seven separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh, news reports said on Sunday, in a string of cases that come amid heightened national sensitivity over rapes and murders of young girls that have sparked widespread protests and criticism of the government.
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Every 15 Minutes, A Child Is Subjected To Sexual Offence In India: Report
A sexual offence is committed against a child in India every 15 minutes and there has been an increase of more than 500 per cent over the past 10 years in crime against minors, an analysis by child rights NGO CRY has found.
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Man Arrested In Shimla District For Allegedly Raping, Killing Schoolgirl
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) today arrested a 29-year-old man for allegedly raping and killing a minor schoolgirl in Kotkhai area in Shimla, a case which has sparked state-wide outrage.
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4 Mumbai Schoolboys Arrested For Raping Classmate, Circulating Video On WhatsApp
Four schoolboys in Mumbai have been arrested for gang-raping their classmate, recording a video and then circulating it on WhatsApp.
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Delhi: Minor Murdered for Stealing a Mango
A mango vendor battered a boy to death for stealing a fruit from his pushcart murder triggering tension in a New Delhi locality, police said on Friday.
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Lawyer arrested for raping minor girl in Muzaffarnagar
A lawyer has been arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl at his house, police said.Rajive Sharma raped the girl yesterday at his house, they said, adding he was later arrested.Victim's mother has lodged an FIR with the police following which the girl was sent for medical examination which confirmed rape, SSP Parveen Kumar said.
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Over 2 dozen Pak Hindu families seek asylum in India
More than two dozen Hindu families in Pakistan have sought political asylum in India after an increase in cases of kidnapping for ransom and target killings of the members of their community in Balochistan province, an official said.The Hindu families have approached the Indian high commission here for visa and political asylum. They cited the incr...
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Taking A Minor's Confession Of Crime Is Unconstitutional: Delhi High Court
Seeking a confession about an alleged crime committed by a juvenile is "unconstitutional" as a "presumption is raised at the pre-trial stage itself that the child has committed the offence," the Delhi High Court has said.
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Girl On Scooty Kept Honking At Hearing Impaired Man. She Then Stabbed Him
A 15-year-old girl allegedly stabbed to death a differently-abled man in Chhattisgarh's Raipur in an incident of road rage.
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Delhi Police Arrest 13-Year-Old For Drowning Baby In Water Tank
A 13-year-old boy was apprehended for allegedly killing an infant by drowning him in a water tank in east Delhi's Dallupura area, police said on Thursday.
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Odisha Court Sentences Minor To 10-Years Imprisonment For Raping Teen
A court in Odishas Keonjhar district sentenced a juvenile to 10 years of imprisonment on Monday for raping a 15-year-old girl.
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Fast-Track Probe, Trial Of Sexual Offences Against Minors: Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday asked state chief secretaries to device a mechanism to ensure that investigation and trial in sexual offences like rape against girls under the age of 12 are completed within two months of the crime.
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Minor Dalit Girl Refused To Share Her Mobile Number. Enraged, He Set Her On Fire
A minor Dalit girl was set on fire at her house in Uttar Pradesh allegedly by her neighbour on Tuesday after she refused to share her mobile number with him. According to police, the man assaulted the minor girl, beating her badly, before sprinkling kerosene on her.
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Hyderabad Madrasa Teacher Held For Sexually Abusing Minor Boys
A 23-year-old madrasa teacher has been arrested in Hyderabad after he was accused of sexually assaulting six minor boys of the institute, police said today.
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3 Children Raped, 4 Sexually Assaulted In Separate Cases In A Day In Uttar Pradesh
Three young girls were raped and four other minors were sexually assaulted in seven separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh, news reports said on Sunday, in a string of cases that come amid heightened national sensitivity over rapes and murders of young girls that have sparked widespread protests and criticism of the government.
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Every 15 Minutes, A Child Is Subjected To Sexual Offence In India: Report
A sexual offence is committed against a child in India every 15 minutes and there has been an increase of more than 500 per cent over the past 10 years in crime against minors, an analysis by child rights NGO CRY has found.
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Man Arrested In Shimla District For Allegedly Raping, Killing Schoolgirl
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) today arrested a 29-year-old man for allegedly raping and killing a minor schoolgirl in Kotkhai area in Shimla, a case which has sparked state-wide outrage.
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4 Mumbai Schoolboys Arrested For Raping Classmate, Circulating Video On WhatsApp
Four schoolboys in Mumbai have been arrested for gang-raping their classmate, recording a video and then circulating it on WhatsApp.
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Delhi: Minor Murdered for Stealing a Mango
A mango vendor battered a boy to death for stealing a fruit from his pushcart murder triggering tension in a New Delhi locality, police said on Friday.
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Lawyer arrested for raping minor girl in Muzaffarnagar
A lawyer has been arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl at his house, police said.Rajive Sharma raped the girl yesterday at his house, they said, adding he was later arrested.Victim's mother has lodged an FIR with the police following which the girl was sent for medical examination which confirmed rape, SSP Parveen Kumar said.
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Over 2 dozen Pak Hindu families seek asylum in India
More than two dozen Hindu families in Pakistan have sought political asylum in India after an increase in cases of kidnapping for ransom and target killings of the members of their community in Balochistan province, an official said.The Hindu families have approached the Indian high commission here for visa and political asylum. They cited the incr...
