8-Month-Old Girl Raped, Killed In Indore Basement. Suspect Seen On CCTV

An eight-month-old girl, fast asleep next to her parents in Indore, was taken away and raped in a vacant basement just 50 metres away in the early hours of Friday. The accused, spotted on a CCTV camera carrying the baby on his shoulder, also killed her once he committed the crime. The infant's body was spotted hours later by a shopkeeper who had gone to the basement t...

A nine-year-old attending a wedding with her family was allegedly raped before being strangled at Uttar Pradesh's Etah on Thursday night in an incident mirroring the rape and murder of another child attending a family wedding in the same district, just days ago

Amitabh Bachchan has said he feels "disgusted" even to talk about the recent rapes that have shaken and outraged the nation. The 75-year-old megastar was asked to respond to the Kathua and Unnao rapes as the ambassador of the government's "Beti Bachao-Beti Padao" campaign, a slogan that has been lampooned by critics after the incidents.

"She is a girl, how intelligent can she be?" - Defence lawyer Ankur Sharma had earlier commented about the only woman police officer Shwetambari Sharma who is investigating Kathua child rape case.

Amid massive anger across the country over the numerous rape cases that have surfaced recently, including the brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said "rape is rape" and should not be politicised.

Amid an outcry over the Kathua and Unnao rape incidents, DCW chief Swati Maliwal, who is on hunger strike for six days, said on Wednesday that she will continue her fast till Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns to India and holds a discussion with her on her demands, including death penalty for rapists of minor girls.

Calling the Kathua rape and murder case "alarming", Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said "a living form of the Mata" has been treated so cruelly in the land where girls are worshipped as incarnation of Goddess Durga.

President Ram Nath Kovind condemned the "heinous and barbaric" Kathua gang-rape and murder case and said it is the collective responsibility of the society to ensure no girl suffers in the country.

The identification of the little girl -- whose horrific rape and murder in Surat fuelled nationwide protests over the weekend -- has hit a roadblock. It now appears that she might not be the daughter of the man who came from Andhra Pradesh yesterday, responding to a tweet by the Surat police, sources said.

In Assam's Nagaon district, where a 11-year-old girl was raped and then set ablaze, an entire village came together to help the police catch the accused.

A family from Andhra Pradesh has come forward to identify the child who was raped, horribly tortured and murdered in Surat earlier this month. The shocking case was one of the several that sparked nationwide protests over the weekend.

Days after its two lawmakers had to quit, BJP ministers in the Mehbooba Mufti government have sent their resignations to the party to prep for a reshuffle that has been on the cards for some time.