A Delhi court, hearing the Dec 16 gang-rape case, directed the Tihar Jail authorities to file a detailed report on the death of Ram Singh, one of the six accused in the sensational crime. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh …
In a shocking incident a Thane doctor allegedly raped a young woman who was undergoing treatment at his hospital, the police said. Dr William Jacob admitted the woman in his private hospital in Diva township of Thane district in …
Panic gripped the two accused when the five-year-old girl started bleeding after they raped her, and one of them inserted a small glass bottle and bits of candle into her vagina to stem the flow of blood, police said …
In the recent case involving a 13-year-old who was raped, the SC said the two-finger test was immaterial as the question of consent doesn’t arise at all. The SC went on to denigrate the practice saying it ‘violates the …
The 13-year-old girl, who had consumed an overdose of sleeping pills after being gang-raped during nine-day captivity last month, was shifted to AIIMS from Hedgewar Hospital Monday, her family said even as another of the eight …
Before you think how incompetent the editor of the site has to be allow such a grammatically incorrect headline, let me clarify that this is a real search query that some one had on our site. This question is so deep at …
As the nation is gripped with anger following the rape of a five-year-old girl here, psychiatrists believe the offenders of such crimes are usually weak and who harbour anger against the society that usually translates into …
Do you watch porn? It could soon become a non-bailable offence! The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the various ministries of the Central Government on a PIL which seeks to modify internet laws so that pornography is …
A 22-year-old unmarried woman, who was allegedly raped, has been allowed by the Delhi High Court to get her pregnancy terminated to avoid social stigma. A bench of Justice S.P. Garg, allowing the plea of woman to terminate her …
Bowing to political pressure against lowering the age of consent for sex to 16 years, the government on Monday approved the anti-rape bill by agreeing to stick to 18 years, but women activists said the provision could be misused. …
There is a need for a medical protocol for treating victims of sexual violence and doctors should be trained for it, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat said on Monday. ‘The gap remains in what women …
A day before an all-party meet to debate the controversial anti-rape bill, the UPA government Sunday said it would evolve a consensus on the issue. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) have expressed …
Before the Delhi rape incident awakened the powers-that-be to the plight faced by sexual assault victims, things were extremely grim. Victims are usually put under a horribly judgemental microscope from the moment they call up …
Today is International Women’s Day but as far as our nation is concerned it’s a bloody farce. The main UN theme ‘A promise is a promise: End violence against women’ rings hollow in this country where the girl child’s …
