. Two minor siblings were feared drowned after they accidentally slipped into Kengeri lake while they went to fetch water on Monday (October 21, 2024). The victims have been identified as Laxmi, 11, and her elder brother Srinivas, 13. According to the police, the incident occurred between 5.30 and 6 pm on Monday. Based on … Read more
The Juvenile Justice Committee (JJC) of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed the Eluru district Collector to submit a report on the sexual assault of a mentally unsound minor girl in Eluru Town. When the victim complained of stomach ache and giddiness, family members shifted her to a hospital a few days ago. Doctors … Read more
The Bombay High Court has acquitted a maternal uncle who had been sentenced to ten years in prison for sexually assaulting his minor niece who later gave birth to a daughter. A bench of Justice Sarang Kotwal was hearing an appeal against a judgement passed by the Mangaon Sessions court in Raigad which had concluded … Read more
Image used for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters A POCSO court in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district on Monday awarded death sentence to two men for raping and burning alive a minor girl in a coal furnace last year. “Kalu and Kanha were awarded death penalty by the court,” Special Public Prosecutor Mahaveer Singh Kishnawat … Read more
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The court observed that any attempt to terminate the pregnancy at this advanced stage is likely to lead to a premature delivery. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Rajasthan High Court has declined a plea of a 11-year-old rape survivor to terminate her 31-week pregnancy, saying a fully developed foetus also has the right to … Read more
A 15-year-old girl attempted to end her life in a child care home, located at Narasimha Rao Nagar, in the town. She was admitted in a private hospital. The girl, studying in Class 10, was rushed to the hospital after other inmates noticed that she tried to take her own life. Speaking to The Hindu … Read more
NTR District Sub-Collector Aditi Singh conducted an inquiry into the alleged sexual harassment at a child care institution under Krishna district Child Welfare Committee (CWC) by its member. Ms. Singh also probed into the alleged leak of profiles of the rescued minor girls from a girls’ shelter home. A book in which the data of … Read more
A man who poured boiling water on his minor cousin has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of ₹35,000 by the Thiruvananthapuram Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Court. Thiruvananthapuram POCSO Court Judge M.P. Shibu sentenced Aneesh, 38, of Ulloor in the city, to rigorous imprisonment in a case … Read more
On the morning of July 19, the same day that a video clip of the sexual assault on women in Manipur went viral and shook the country, social media threw up another series of disturbing images. Except these were from a middle-class neighbourhood in Delhi, and featured a couple, the woman in pilot’s uniform, being … Read more