Tag: Sexual Assault

Source: indiatoday.in local court on Monday will hear the bail of the law student arrested for trying to extort Rs 5 crore from Chinmayanand, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader she has accused of rape. The former Union minister’s own bail petition in the sexual assault case is coming up for hearing that day. On

Source: financialexpress.com Former Union minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand, accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old law student at his ashram, was arrested Friday, four days after the woman recorded her statement before a magistrate in Shahjahanpur. Police have not booked him on the charge of rape, and invoked instead sexual intercourse by a person in authority,

Source: indianexpress.com Dismissing the revision plea of a Sonipat juvenile against his conviction in a rape case, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that the absence of external or internal injury on the victim’s body cannot discredit her allegation. “It shall not be appropriate to expect or presume that in all cases of

Source: thehindu.com The Delhi High Court has upheld the life imprisonment awarded to a man for raping his 15-year-old daughter noting that the testimony of the victim by itself was sufficient. The man was caught when his sister noticed an unusual bulge in his daughter’s belly and decided to get her checked. The minor was

Source- telegraphindia.com The Supreme Court has acquitted a man in a two-decade-old rape case citing insufficient evidence and observing that the complainant had the “habit” of implicating people in false rape cases. The bench of Justices A.M. Sapre and Dinesh Maheshwari listed seven reasons why the rape claim was unacceptable and set aside the convictions and

Source- ndtv.com A man, who was on death row after being convicted by a high court of raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl in Rajasthan over five years ago, has got a reduced sentence of life term from the Supreme Court which acquitted him of the charge of sexually assaulting the minor. The court observed that

Source- indianexpress.com Writer-producer Vinta Nanda Tuesday accused actor Alok Nath of sexually assaulting her on multiple occasions 19 years ago when they worked together on the sets of the 1993 TV show Tara. Nanda detailed the account on Facebook Monday in which she referred to Nath as “the most sanskaari (cultured) person”, before naming him the next day. Speaking to ABP

Source – thehindu.com The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that minor survivors of rape or sexual assault will get compensation on par with women victims. The apex court extended the National Legal Services Authority’s (NALSA) compensation scheme for women rape and sexual assault survivors to minor children. A three-judge Bench led by Justice Madan B. Lokur directed that

Source – dnaindia.com The Bombay High court on Monday upheld the conviction of a man charged under various Sections of the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) for raping a minor girl. Justice AM Badar, while upholding the sentence of seven years given to Mohammed Azad Khan, rejected his argument that he and the