Maheshgiri, alias Mahesh Dilip Kakde, who claimed to have divine powers, allegedly told the woman that she had been affected by Karni (black magic).

Tata Consultancy Services, or TCS, India's biggest private-sector employer, maintains that it had not received any complaint through internal channels on the matter, underlining it has a zero-tolerance policy towards harassment.

The accused initially went into hiding but was tracked down and arrested in the early hours of 17 April.

One police official and two constables have been suspended after videos showed them celebrating Ayaz's birthday.

Sam Altman is seeking $1, saying he "does not want to harm his sister financially" but wants a verdict that her statements are not true.

Advocacy groups have warned Meta that its proposed facial recognition feature for smart glasses could enable stalking and abuse, urging the company to cancel the rollout amid growing legal and privacy concerns.

A sharp blade used in the murder has been recovered by the police, and the guard, Mukesh alias Sudama, 46, has been arrested.

The case pertain to the alleged sex harassment of women employees at a multi-national company in Nashik over the last four years.

The furor over the "Epstein files," as the trove of investigative records came to be known, wasn't the only controversy of Bondi's tenure.

The two accused have been identified as Arjun Nayak, 22, and Aditya Nayak, 19, both residents of Lanjipalli, Berhampur.

The case pertains to an FIR lodged at Jhunsi police station in Prayagraj following directions from a POCSO court.

Austria has been hit by a procession of high-profile paedophilia scandals and victims' groups say there is a deep-seated reluctance to uproot problem.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman won dismissal of a lawsuit by his sister claiming that he sexually abused her for almost a decade.

Lawmakers in California said Thursday they will rename the Cesar Chavez Day state holiday in the wake of disturbing allegations of sexual abuse by...

Three Tennessee litigants, including two minors, sued Elon Musk's xAI on Monday, alleging that it knowingly designed its Grok image generator to let people create sexually explicit content by using real photos of others.

The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an encounter partially caught on camera.

The U.S. Center for SafeSport on Monday permanently banned a Paralympic swimmer who was accused of sexually assaulting an autistic teammate at the Games in 2021 and for about a year after that.

Organised ritual abuse reportedly involves sexual abuse, violence, and neglect within a ritualistic framework.

The photographs show an 18-room residence saturated in red, orange and pink tones. Walls are covered with framed images of naked or semi-naked young women.

A special POCSO court here on Saturday ordered the Jhunsi Police Station SHO to register an FIR against Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati to investigate allegations of sexual abuse of boys.

A couple has been sentenced to death by a court in Uttar Pradesh after being convicted in a case of sexual assault of 33 children, some of them as young as three years old.

The estate of convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has agreed to pay up to $35 million to settle the outstanding legal claims of potentially dozens of victims, according to a proposed court judgment filed Thursday.

The arrest of former British royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor now also put the spotlight on Andrew's great-uncle, and India's last Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, who was accused of sexually abusing young boys in the Kincora Boys' Home scandal.

King Charles' troublesome younger brother had already been caught lying about his friendship with the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, making his denials of sexual wrongdoing, including allegedly abusing the late Virginia Giuffre when she was 17.