A convict who raped a young woman on a rail track in 2011 after allegedly throwing her off a moving train in Kerala, was spared the death sentence on Thursday. Reducing Govindachamy's sentence to 14 years in jail, the Supreme Court said there was not enough evidence that 23-year-old Soumya had been murdered or pushed off the train.
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Bihar Leader of the Opposition, Tejashwi Yadav, launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his government on Monday over the Muzaffarpur rape case and medical negligence at PMCH that led to the death of a 10-year-old Dalit girl.
Union Minister and BJP ally Chirag Paswan has written to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, also a BJP ally, on the Muzaffarpur rape-murder case, raising serious questions on the state's law and order situation and public health infrastructure.
A man has been arrested on charges of raping and murdering an 80-year-old woman in Srinivasapura town of Karnataka's Kolar district.
Police have arrested a 24-year-old man after a brief encounter for allegedly raping a three-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district, officials said on Wednesday.
The lawyer defending fallen Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein from rape and sexual assault charges called on jurors to give him the benefit of the doubt Tuesday before prosecutors make their closing argument at his retrial.
A former personal assistant to Sean "Diddy" Combs who says he raped her testified that she continued sending him loving text messages for years after her job ended in 2017 because she was "brainwashed."
The Delhi High Court has asked hospitals in the national capital to refrain from demanding ID proofs of rape survivors seeking termination of their pregnancy on orders of courts.
A nine-year-old Dalit girl in Bihar's Muzaffarpur was raped and the attacker slit her throat and fled. The minor was later found, bloodied and semi-naked, by her mother. She was rushed to the nearest hospital and then referred to Patna
Gnanasekaran, a biryani vendor convicted in the high-profile sexual assault case at the Anna University, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
An Indian content creator has reportedly been detained in Turkey after massive outrage over his derogatory remarks targeting Turkish women.
Sean "Diddy" Combs ' lawyers confronted his rape-alleging former personal assistant with her social media posts praising the hip-hop mogul as a mentor, "my brother" and "friend for life" for years after she says he assaulted her.
British prosecutors have this week charged social media influencer Andrew Tate with a string of serious sexual offences, including rape and human trafficking, alleged to have been committed in the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2015.
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