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A local court in Chitradurga will, on Friday, pronounce its verdict on the bail petition of rape accused Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaruo in the Lingayat mutt sex scandal case.

Mahabubabad: POCSO fast-track court judge P Vasant Patil has found Gabbeta Chandraiah (41) of Garnepally village in Zaffergadh mandal of Jangaon district guilty of raping a minor girl , and sentenced him to 20 years imprisonment besides imposing a penalty of Rs 2,000 on him on Friday. Chandraiah was arrested as the rape case was […]

There are multiple alarming trends in the just-released report of the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB). An increase in the instances of crime against women and children and a sharp rise in the number of suicides among daily wage earners are among the ominous indicators of a society that is grappling with the long-term socio-economic […]

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has quashed a case lodged under the provision of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and upheld the marriage between the accused and the victim. The bench observed on Tuesday that the incident had taken place when the victim was 17 years. However, she married the accused […]

Amethi: A principal in a private school has been arrested for allegedly molesting a Class 11 student. According to police reports, the principal had summoned the girl on Sunday to fill a form. Despite it being a holiday, the 17-year-old went to the school with her Aadhaar card to fill the form. The girl later […]

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has quashed the criminal proceedings against Reverend Prasanna Kumar Samuel in a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Prasanna Kumar Samuel is a Bishop of Church of South India (CSI) Karnataka Central Diocese, Bengaluru. The case was registered against five people, including Prasanna Kumar Samuel […]

Hyderabad:  The City Police Cybercrime wing has intensified efforts to identify persons who shared the videos of the Jubilee Hills gang-rape victim on social media. Five cases were booked by the Hyderabad Cybercrime police against different persons who allegedly circulated the videos on social media and revealed the identity of the victim in violation of […]

Hyderabad: IT Minister KT Rama Rao has on Thursday welcomed the reported move of the Telangana police to appeal before the Juvenile Board seeking exemption for trial of the juveniles apprehended in the Jubilee Hills gang-rape case as adults. “If you are adult enough to commit a crime as heinous as rape, one must also […]

Hyderabad: The six suspects in the Jubilee Hills gang-rape appear to have helped the police identify them with the videos they themselves shot while committing the offence. City Police Commissioner C V Anand said it was the CCTV footage from the pub, visuals from a bakery in Jubilee Hills where the suspects went at least […]

Hyderabad: A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped multiple times and impregnated by her elder brother in Bachupally on the city outskirts. According to the police, the girl’s 17-year-old brother was allegedly influenced by explicit content on social media and pornography and resorted to the crime. Since the last one year, the teenager, in the absence […]

Chennai: In a significant judgment, the Madras High Court has held that an accused in a POCSO case might be allowed to cross-examine the victim, who was a minor at the time of occurrence, but a major (21 years old) now. Justice A D Jagadish Chandira gave the ruling while allowing a criminal original petition […]

Kumram Bheem Asifabad/Mancherial: Telangana High Court judge Justice K Laxman expressed concern on growing violence against children and stressed the need to reduce crimes against them. He along with Collector Rahul Raj formally inaugurated a special court for disposing cases booked under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, here on Sunday. Justice […]

Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has said that the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was not intended for teenagers’ romantic affairs. The court granted bail to a POCSO accused youth, who ran away with a 14- year-old girl and got married with her in a temple. The youth, who was a minor […]

Mainpuri: The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the death of a 16-year-old school girl who was allegedly raped and found hanging in a prayer room in the school in 2019, has filed a 2,000-page charge sheet against the former principal of the residential school. Special public prosecutor (POCSO) Anoop Yadav said: “The charge sheet was […]

Hyderabad: An increase of about nine per cent was witnessed in the overall crime in Rachakonda in 2021 with cybercrimes, crimes against women, kidnappings, POCSO cases and few conventional crimes, increasing. However, the Rachakonda police ensured the conviction rate increased, dealt with iron fist cases of women and child trafficking and busted major drug rackets […]

Hyderabad: Cyberabad Police Commissioner M Stephen Raveendra on Wednesday reviewed the progress of the investigation into POCSO cases and instructed officials to complete the investigation within 60 days. Instructing the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit to close down places where illegal activities were carried out, he asked officials to check on activities of those involved in women […]

Hyderabad: A police constable, Shekhar, attached to the Kukatpally police station has been booked on charges of misbehaving with a minor girl at her house in Shankerpally. The 14-year-old victim’s family was staying in a rented portion of the constable’s house in Shankerpally. According to the police, on Tuesday night, when the victim was alone […]

Hyderabad: The Bharosa Centre is where women approach the police for help when they are harassed. The Cyberabad Bharosa Centre, however, had one unusual complainant last month, when a techie approached the Bharosa Centre for help to get back his wife who left him due to his addiction to alcohol. Apart from this not so […]

By Mahitha Lingala In the wake of rapes and murder emanating from various parts of our country, the debate surrounding rape laws and its prevention in India has once again come to the forefront. Multiple stakeholders have voiced a variety of opinions – some giving it a communal tone, some blaming patriarchal attitudes towards women, […]

Hyderabad: A nine-year-old girl was saved by locals after they saw her being taken away by a man into a vacant shop in Mangar Basthi of Habeebnagar. Though the man, identified as Sumeeth, 30, managed to escape when locals followed them into the shop, he was nabbed later and charged with kidnap and under the […]