Girl Raped, Strangled In Odisha School. She Had Gone Out To Buy Biscuits

A six-year-old girl in Odisha who had gone to buy biscuits was raped, strangled and left inside a school campus in a village in Cuttack district on Saturday. The girl has multiple injuries and is admitted in a hospital. Her condition is said to be critical. A 25-year-old man was arrested on Sunday.

Three young girls were raped and four other minors were sexually assaulted in seven separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh, news reports said on Sunday, in a string of cases that come amid heightened national sensitivity over rapes and murders of young girls that have sparked widespread protests and criticism of the government.

The 11-year-old girl who was found raped and murdered in Surat on April 6, and her mother may have been victims of human trafficking as the person who handed them over to the man accused of their killing had demanded Rs 35,000 for them, and as such relevant sections of the penal law have been added to the case, a senior police official said.

A 54-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in Tripura. The girl was allegedly raped at least on four occasions since February by Manoj Deb, an influential businessman from Teliamura in Khowai district, whom the locals claim to be a BJP supporter, police said.

A nine-year-old boy was allegedly sexually assaulted by a man in a village in Muzaffarnagar, police said today. The incident took place last evening.

Amid a growing outrage across the country over spurt in the cases of sexual crimes against minors, another rape case has been reported from Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar.

Today, President Ram Nath Kovind has signed the executive order to pave way for providing stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years. The Union Cabinet on Saturday at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the ordinance and was waiting for the President's approval. The change...

President Ram Nath Kovind today signed an ordinance to pave way for providing stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years.

Nirbhaya's father alleged on Saturday that the Union Cabinet's approval to promulgate an ordinance to give the death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below 12 years has no "logic" and the decision was taken in view of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

A primary school teacher in West Bengal allegedly raped two class four students for four days after school hours. It was only after after one of the girls refused to go to school on Friday and subsequently told her parents, that the incident came to light.

The family of a seven-year-old girl in Chhattisigarh's capital Raipur has alleged that she was sexually assaulted in her school last week. Though police have registered a complaint and are examining the CCTV footage from the school, no arrests have been made.

Scrambling to assuage the nationwide outrage over sexual violence against young girls, the government is expected to clear an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to bring in death penalty for child rape. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returns from a five-day foreign trip, has called for a cabinet meeting today to change the law.