Revenue Official Rape

A revenue official has accused her colleague of attempting to rape and kill her at her government accommodation in the Sadar area here, police said on Friday.

The Madras High Court on Friday upheld the convictions of 215 people involved in the heinous 1992 Vachathi Atrocities Case. In 2011, a lower court had convicted 215 policemen, forest and revenue officials for raping 18 women and torturing men.

A government land revenue official, accused of abducting and raping a woman tenant, has been granted bail by a Delhi court noting that there was a delay in lodging the FIR.

Today, all 269 people accused the case were found guilty and were convicted by a court in Tamil Nadu's Dharmapuri district. About 100 of these are policemen and the rest, revenue and forest officials. Seventeen Indian Forest Service (IFS) officials have been found guilty of rape, and the 252 other accused, of committing atrocities against Dalits.

A revenue official has accused her colleague of attempting to rape and kill her at her government accommodation in the Sadar area here, police said on Friday.

The Madras High Court on Friday upheld the convictions of 215 people involved in the heinous 1992 Vachathi Atrocities Case. In 2011, a lower court had convicted 215 policemen, forest and revenue officials for raping 18 women and torturing men.

A government land revenue official, accused of abducting and raping a woman tenant, has been granted bail by a Delhi court noting that there was a delay in lodging the FIR.

Today, all 269 people accused the case were found guilty and were convicted by a court in Tamil Nadu's Dharmapuri district. About 100 of these are policemen and the rest, revenue and forest officials. Seventeen Indian Forest Service (IFS) officials have been found guilty of rape, and the 252 other accused, of committing atrocities against Dalits.