Deputy Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar said the victim's mother complained that a classmate of her daughter attempted to rape her in the school during the lunch break.
In a shocking revelation, the Supreme Court was informed on Thursday that 150,332 child rape cases are pending and the disposal rate is mere 9 per cent in the country as on June 30. The victims await a child-friendly justice delivery system.
In possibly the first case after the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act was amended to provide for death penalty in cases of sexual offences against children, a special court on Thursday handed down capital punishment for a man convicted of raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl.
The Union Cabinet Wednesday approved amendments in the POCSO Act, which deals with crime against children, and included death penalty for sexual assault on minors, officials said.
Priests of Chilkur Balaji temple offered prayers by worshipping cows in Hyderabad on Sunday to control sexual assault cases against minors in India.
The head master of the government-run residential school at Sikhpalli was arrested today after a note was found in a notebook of the girl, Superintendent of Police Jagmohan Meena said.
Stressing on education to children, the prime minister said that representatives of all panchayats should ensure that not a single child in village is bereft of education.
Amid the nationwide outrage over Kathua and Unnao incidents, another horrendous rape and murder case has come into light, this time from Uttar Pradesh.
Investigations have revealed that the girl was held in a temple, drugged, repeatedly raped and finally murdered to scare the nomadic Muslim community out of the village.
In a shameful incident, an eight-month-old baby girl was allegedly raped by her cousin in northwest Delhi's Netaji Subhash Place on Monday.
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New Delhi: Castration. This is Madras High Court's solution to curb growing cases of sex offences against children. In strongly worded order released on Sunday, the Madras High Court has recommended to the Centre to
Sangli: Suspected Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Shiv Sena activists yesterday attacked migrant workers from North India and ransacked their properties in adjoining Kolhapur district after a two-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a labourer
New Delhi, Jul 14: A youth has been arrested for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl when she was alone at her house in Pashim Vihar area in West Delhi, police said yersterday.According to police, Hiral
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