Pakistan's Punjab imposes 'emergency' due to rising cases of rape, sexual abuse
World | June 22, 2022 11:49 ISTPakistan has been suffering and battling a gender violence epidemic and violence against women cuts across classes in the country.
Pakistan has been suffering and battling a gender violence epidemic and violence against women cuts across classes in the country.
Mahesh Joshi’s son Rohit Joshi has been accused of raping a 23-year-old woman in Jaipur and Delhi last year. The Delhi Police questioned him in the case on Friday.
The police said that the man, identified as Hasmukh Devipujak, took the senior citizen to a deserted place where he raped her and then fled away with her ornaments.
A senior police officer said the accused Joel Vincent D'Souza, a local resident, allegedly raped the middle-aged British woman on June 2 when she was relaxing at the beach.
The gangrape case of a 17-year-old girl, while she was returning home after a party in the Jubilee Hills area of Hyderabad, has triggered political reactions across party lines.
A 17-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped when she was returning home after a party in the Jubilee Hills area of Hyderabad on May 28.
According to police, accused Mohan Chauhan had raped a woman in a stationary vehicle and inserted a rod in her private parts in September last year. The woman died the next day.
A 14-year-old girl was raped in Rajasthan's Nagaur district on Friday. Five people have been booked in connection with the incident.
A 26-year-old veterinarian, on her way home after visit to a clinic, was raped and burnt alive at Shadnagar. Hours later, her body was found in an underpass on the highway.
The Delhi HC's verdict came on petitioners challenging the constitutionality of the marital rape exception under Section 375 IPC.
The victim's body was found hanging on Thursday in a farm shed owned by her lover Sadik Basha, according to the Dharmavaram sub-divisional police officer Ramakanth.
The Home Minister was speaking about the recent rape case in Repalle railway station where three persons sexually assaulted a pregnant woman, and said that the accused had no intentions of rape, but only to rob the victim's family.
The controversy over the rape of a minor girl, who died later, at Hanskhali in Nadia district of West Bengal took a more debatable turn after Chief Minister Banerjee gave a "love-angle" twist to the incident.
Andhra Pradesh cops have nabbed 74 of 80 people, who had allegedly raped a 13-year-old over a period of eight months. According to sources, one of the accused is in London.
A 14-year-old girl, who survived a rape attempt in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, set herself on fire after she was allegedly threatened to withdraw the police complaint, officials said on Friday.
TMC MP Sougoto Ray, a three-time MP from Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency, indirectly contradicted CM's "minor incident" and "love-angle" connection to the Hanskhali rape.
The committee, with all the five members being women, has been asked to submit its report at the earliest.
The arrested man is a friend of the main suspect in the case, the officer said. Two others have also been detained for questioning
Police identified the key accused as Deepak Meena, the son of Congress MLA Johari Lal Meena from Rajgarh assembly constituency in Alwar district.
An 87-year-old woman was allegedly raped in the national capital's Tilak Nagar on Sunday afternoon.
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