4-Year-Old Sleeping Next To Her Father Kidnapped, Raped In Madhya Pradesh

Diplomat-turned-senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said he was shocked that India remains one of the few democracies where marital rape is not viewed with the seriousness it deserves, despite having stringent anti-rape laws.

Karnataka Congress lawmaker Iqbal Hussain kicked up a row Thursday after using the Hindi word for 'rape' 'balatkaar' in a poorly-phrased comment about the leadership struggle between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy, DK Shivakumar.

A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by four people, including two minors, at a lodge in Secunderabad here, police said on Wednesday.

Following the Thiruvananthapuram Principal Sessions Court's decision to grant anticipatory bail in the second rape case, reports suggest that Rahul Mamkootathil is likely to arrive in Palakkad on Thursday.

A horrific case of a minor's assault has emerged from Gujarat's Rajkot in which a rod was inserted into a seven-year-old's private parts after an attempted rape by the perpetrator.

Gang-raped by six men, a tribal woman in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa sought justice from her community panchayat, only to find that not only did several members try to suppress the matter, they also called her rapists 'sanskari'.

Two teenage Afghan asylum seekers, who had both arrived in Britain alone in the last year, were given long detention sentences on Monday for raping a 15-year-old girl in central England.

"It is shocking that the police are working so negligently in such a heinous and sensitive matter," a Delhi court said on Monday while hearing a case regarding the brutal rape of a four-year-old girl.

A 26-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a quack in front of her child in Jharkhand's Palamu district, police said on Monday.

The Supreme Court today expressed concern over controversial and "anti-women orders" passed by courts across the country in rape and sexual assault cases. To check this issue, a detailed set of guidelines would be issued for high courts, it said.

The acquittal of actor Dileep, accused of masterminding a prominent Kerala actor's abduction and rape, comes at the end of a nearly nine-year legal battle that raised a storm in the Malayalam film industry

A Kerala court on Monday acquitted actor Dileep over the abduction and rape of an actress in 2017; the Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court said the prosecution failed to prove the Malayalam star's involvement. However, six others were found guilty.