Rape Victim Assaulted

A nine-year old girl who was allegedly raped and murdered near the Delhi cantonment area on August 2 died due to "suffocation" during the sexual assault, Delhi Police told court.

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday came to the aid of another minor rape victim by paving the way for her to undergo medical termination of the pregnancy which was a result of the sexual assault committed on her.

Women rights activists have said the decision to acquit journalist Tarun Tejpal in a sexual assault case will deter other victims from coming forward to report crimes against them, saying once again a survivor was "demeaned and humiliated".

Citing a media report on a brutal assault on a woman in Madhya Pradesh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that the BJP always holds the victim responsible for rape and shows laxity in taking action against culprits.

One is driven to call out the judge of the Nagpur bench of the Mumbai High Court, who, in an extraordinarily retrograde judgement, has ruled that the offence of sexual assault under Section 7 of the POCSO Act does not apply when a child is molested, and cannot be considered a victim of attempt to rape unless there is "skin to skin" contact.

The CBI today began probe into the alleged gang rape and torture of a 20-year-old Dalit woman, who died at a hospital in Delhi last month two weeks after the savage assault that triggered massive outrage across the country.

The accused in the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old Hathras woman have been lying and spreading rumours to save themselves, the victim's brother has said, after the main accused - in a letter to the Uttar Pradesh police on Wednesday - alleged the woman's family had killed her as it was opposed to their "friendship".

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned to October 15 hearing in the sexual harassment case against former Tehelka Magazine Editor Tarun Tejpal, after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted the victim was suffering from lung cancer.

At the village in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras of a young Dalit woman who died days after a savage assault and alleged gang rape, upper caste men defending the four men arrested for the crime are on camera shouting threats as Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad visited the victim's family on Sunday. Videos that have surfaced online demonstrate the compl...

A forensic report on the young Dalit woman from Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, who died days after being assaulted by a group of men, says there were "no signs suggestive of intercourse", backing the state police's version that she was not raped or gang raped.

Amid outrage over the gang rape and death of a young woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, a video of her father has emerged in which he is seen alleging cover-up and pressure on his family against speaking on the case. The family, the father is heard saying, was not satisfied with the police investigations and wants the Central Bureau of Investigation...

The young woman from Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, who died days after being gang raped and tortured, was strangled, brutalised and suffered cervical spine injury, her autopsy report has said. The "final diagnosis" does not mention rape but the report refers to tears in her private parts.

The Hathras district administration on Tuesday announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the family of a Dalit woman, who died in a Delhi hospital while undergoing treatment after her alleged gang-rape and brutal physical assault in a village near Hathras.

A 20-year-old woman, gang-raped and tortured by four men in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras two weeks ago, died this morning at a hospital in Delhi. The woman had suffered multiple fractures, paralysis and a deep gash in her tongue in the savage assault compared by many to the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape.

Harvey Weinstein used his final minutes before he was sentenced to portray himself as a martyr in a disjointed rant that led one of his lawyers to try to stop him while an accuser shook her head in disbelief.

A nine-year old girl who was allegedly raped and murdered near the Delhi cantonment area on August 2 died due to "suffocation" during the sexual assault, Delhi Police told court.

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday came to the aid of another minor rape victim by paving the way for her to undergo medical termination of the pregnancy which was a result of the sexual assault committed on her.

Women rights activists have said the decision to acquit journalist Tarun Tejpal in a sexual assault case will deter other victims from coming forward to report crimes against them, saying once again a survivor was "demeaned and humiliated".

Citing a media report on a brutal assault on a woman in Madhya Pradesh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that the BJP always holds the victim responsible for rape and shows laxity in taking action against culprits.

One is driven to call out the judge of the Nagpur bench of the Mumbai High Court, who, in an extraordinarily retrograde judgement, has ruled that the offence of sexual assault under Section 7 of the POCSO Act does not apply when a child is molested, and cannot be considered a victim of attempt to rape unless there is "skin to skin" contact.

The CBI today began probe into the alleged gang rape and torture of a 20-year-old Dalit woman, who died at a hospital in Delhi last month two weeks after the savage assault that triggered massive outrage across the country.

The accused in the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old Hathras woman have been lying and spreading rumours to save themselves, the victim's brother has said, after the main accused - in a letter to the Uttar Pradesh police on Wednesday - alleged the woman's family had killed her as it was opposed to their "friendship".

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned to October 15 hearing in the sexual harassment case against former Tehelka Magazine Editor Tarun Tejpal, after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted the victim was suffering from lung cancer.

At the village in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras of a young Dalit woman who died days after a savage assault and alleged gang rape, upper caste men defending the four men arrested for the crime are on camera shouting threats as Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad visited the victim's family on Sunday. Videos that have surfaced online demonstrate the compl...

A forensic report on the young Dalit woman from Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, who died days after being assaulted by a group of men, says there were "no signs suggestive of intercourse", backing the state police's version that she was not raped or gang raped.

Amid outrage over the gang rape and death of a young woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, a video of her father has emerged in which he is seen alleging cover-up and pressure on his family against speaking on the case. The family, the father is heard saying, was not satisfied with the police investigations and wants the Central Bureau of Investigation...

The young woman from Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, who died days after being gang raped and tortured, was strangled, brutalised and suffered cervical spine injury, her autopsy report has said. The "final diagnosis" does not mention rape but the report refers to tears in her private parts.

The Hathras district administration on Tuesday announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the family of a Dalit woman, who died in a Delhi hospital while undergoing treatment after her alleged gang-rape and brutal physical assault in a village near Hathras.

A 20-year-old woman, gang-raped and tortured by four men in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras two weeks ago, died this morning at a hospital in Delhi. The woman had suffered multiple fractures, paralysis and a deep gash in her tongue in the savage assault compared by many to the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape.

Harvey Weinstein used his final minutes before he was sentenced to portray himself as a martyr in a disjointed rant that led one of his lawyers to try to stop him while an accuser shook her head in disbelief.