SC stays death penalty in Coimbatore double murder case
India | September 17, 2019 17:10 ISTA bench headed by Justice R. F. Nariman stayed the execution of convict Manoharan till October 16, the next date of hearing.
A bench headed by Justice R. F. Nariman stayed the execution of convict Manoharan till October 16, the next date of hearing.
With her face covered by a black dupatta, the 23-year-old was escorted by several police women as she arrived in the court.
One person has been arrested and a 13-member probe team has been formed to nab the other accused. The motive behind the crime is yet to be known.
A horrific and traumatic tale of rape of a teen has come to the fore in Bhilwara. The terror-stricken teenager ran half-a-km naked after abduction, thrashing and rape by three men while she was on her way to a temple.
Digambar Kamat, who also heads the Swimming Federation of India, insisted that parents of Goan girl swimmers had only informally "hinted" to him about the need to appoint women coaches for their wards.
The postgraduate student, who had levelled harassment charges against Swami Chinmayanand, on Monday alleged she was raped by the BJP leader who also physically exploited her for one year.
A Jharkhand court has sentenced two men to 25 years in prison for raping a 20-year-old woman in Simdega town in 2017. Additional district judge (I), Neeraj Kumar Srivastav, has found Vijay Kumar and Ajay Mishra guilty of the crime under sections of the Indian Penal Code and pronounced the quantum of the sentence against them on Saturday.
Surajit Ganguly, a coach employed with the Goa Swimming Association (GSA), has been accused of molesting a 15-year-old girl who was training under him.
The matter came to light on Monday evening, when the girl's health began deteriorating and senior police officials were informed of the SHO's behaviour. He was removed by the district police chief thereafter and the has since been hospitalised.
The Delhi High Court has upheld a trial court order that acquitted a man accused of raping a minor girl after the prosecution failed to prove that he kidnapped her forcefully.
In his complaint, the 'pairokar' (representative of an accused person) said he was returning home from an Unnao court on Thursday after meeting the assistant of the advocate in the rape case when he was confronted by the five people. Later in the night, they beat him up at his house and also threatened to kill him.
The accused, booked on alleged charges of rape and criminal intimidation, and under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act on Friday, is yet to be arrested, said Kartala Station House Officer (SHO) Sunil Kurre.
Meanwhile, on the role of the principal, Sahu said he allegedly did not inform such a serious crime either to the police or to the child welfare committee or magistrate and tried to investigate the case himself.
The girl and her mother were allegedly raped by the former minister and his aides. The accused were arrested on the directives of the Supreme Court in March 2017. The girl late on Wednesday uploaded her video statement on the social media. She appeared scared as she said she was not only a victim in the case but is also a witness and she feared for her life.
The victim's father alleged in a police complaint on Tuesday that she and other girls at a college run by Chinmayanand’s ashram were sexually harassed by the BJP leader. A former Union minister, Chinmayanand faced similar accusations in 2011 and was booked for raping a woman who stayed at his ashram. With the student still missing, the National Commission for Women and Uttar Pradesh’s women commission have expressed concern.
The judge also imposed a fine of Rs one lakh on Mohanta. According to prosecution, Mohanta, hailing from Goruradabasa village under Betnati police station, kidnapped the minor girl, who was from the same village and took her to a nearby forest on June 15 last year.
In a complaint lodged at Gadwar police station here, the 15-year-old girl and her family alleged that the man impregnated the minor and she delivered a stillborn baby, they said.
"Being a blind case, this case was tough to crack from the very beginning. The case was important for me both personally and professionally because it put to test all my professional knowledge, field experience, personnel management and leadership skills to test," said Sharma who was also the central character on a recent web series focussing on the case.
In a horrific incident, a 12-year-old was allegedly raped and impregnated by a school teacher in Malappuram district in Kerala.
On October 26, 2018, the mother of the 16-year-old girl registered a police complaint with the Jaldega Police Station, accusing Bah of raping her daughter four to five months before the complaint was lodged.
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