Kathua Rape Victim's Lawyer Gets A Fist Of Approval From Emma Watson

"Harry Potter" star Emma Watson on Friday tweeted in support of Indian lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat, who is fighting the case of a minor girl whose rape and murder in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir sent shockwaves globally.

A 23-year-old madrasa teacher has been arrested in Hyderabad after he was accused of sexually assaulting six minor boys of the institute, police said today.

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by the owner of a gym in south Delhi's Safdarjang Enclave area, police said on Tuesday.

A five-year-old girl, who was abducted and killed in Faridabad two weeks ago, had also been raped by the 26-year-old accused, police said today.

Three people including a minor gang-raped a 14-year-old Dalit girl in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district, police said on Sunday. Two of the accused have been arrested and the minor accused has also been held.

Amid the outrage over the Kathua and Unnao incidents, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman lamented on Saturday that crimes against women were getting politicised based on the identity of the perpetrators.

A young girl was allegedly raped by her relative and found to be pregnant during medical examination when she complained of an abdominal pain. The incident occurred in a village in Gunnaur area in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal district, police said today.

A teacher from Puducherry who sexually assaulted a minor girl student when she visited him in the school staff room to get her notebook checked two years ago, was sentenced to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment.

Just three days after her wedding, a newly-wed woman was allegedly raped by her husband and two of his friends in Assam. The woman was gang-raped because her family failed to meet the dowry demands of the husband, say police sources.

A Class 11 student claims she was picked up by a classmate who offered to drop her home, and allegedly gang-raped for hours inside a moving car last week in Greater Noida, near Delhi. After driving around for a few hours, the three attackers dropped her off on the roadside, she has alleged.

The body of a minor girl who went missing from a village in Muzaffarpur district since Saturday was found lying in a field and the police said that it prima facie appeared to be a case of rape and murder.

A 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by four men near a temple in Haryana's Yamunanagar on Sunday. The girl was sleeping with her siblings at home when four men barged in and kidnapped the girl, reports news agency ANI. The men took the girl to a temple nearby and allegedly gang-raped her, and smashed her head on the wall before fleeing.