Rape Case

During the hearing, the victim's sister, who was present in the court, opposed the plea for interim release

The Allahabad High Court has granted interim anticipatory bail to former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand in a rape case till the next date of hearing and directed the victim and the state government to file their replies within four weeks. Justice Samit Gopal passed the order on Monday after hearing Senior Advocate Anoop Trivedi, counsel for petitioner Swami Chinmayanand. He submitted that Swami Chinmayanand is a 75-year-old man and has been falsely implicated in the case. Chinmayanand does not have any criminal history. The former MP is also running several medical and educational institutions and is a person of high political and spiritual value, Trivedi said. Additional Advocate General MC Chaturvedi and Additional Government Advocate AK Sand opposed the bail application on behalf of the state government. Chinamayanand is accused of raping the victim, by taking her hostage in his ashram in the year 2011.

A day after he was granted anticipatory bail by a court in a case of rape and attempt to murder, Congress MLA Eldhose Kunnappilly on Friday appeared before the media and claimed that he was innocent and had done nothing wrong as alleged by the complainant woman. The two-time legislator expressed confidence that he could prove charges against him as wrong in the court and could come out clean. Kunnappilly, who met reporters separately at his house here, also said he gave his explanation to the Congress party as directed by the KPCC and it was up to them to decide on further steps. Asked why he had gone absconding after the victim approached the police with the complaint, the Perumbavoor MLA just said his anticipatory bail plea was before the court. "My anticipatory bail plea was before the court. I have not done anything wrong. I submitted every proof for that before the court. It will be proved that I have committed nothing wrong," Kunnappilly said. The police and party leadershi

The National Commission for Women will send a two-member fact finding team to look into the alleged gang-rape of a woman in Ghaziabad. According to media reports, a 38-year-old woman waiting for an auto-rickshaw to return home in Delhi was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint on Ashram Road in Ghaziabad's Raj Nagar Extension, taken to a house where she was held captive for two days and raped by five men recently. "@NCWIndia is taking cognisance of the matter and sending a two-member fact finding team to meet the family of the victim and the concerned authorities," the women's panel tweeted.

Former President Donald Trump angrily lashed out on Wednesday, calling the nation's legal system a broken disgrace" after a judge ruled he must answer questions under oath next week in a defamation lawsuit lodged by a writer who says he raped her in the mid-1990s. He also called the 2019 lawsuit by E. Jean Carroll, a longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine, a hoax and a lie". The outburst late in the day came hours after US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in Manhattan rejected a request by his lawyers to delay a deposition scheduled for October 19. Kaplan is presiding over the case in which Carroll said Trump raped her in the dressing room of a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman store in the mid-1990s. He called the lawsuit a complete con job". I don't know this woman, have no idea who she is, other than it seems she got a picture of me many years ago, with her husband, shaking my hand on a reception line at a celebrity charity event," Trump said. She completely made up a story that I

Delhi has a unique situation where the police report to the central government rather than the state government

Six men were arrested on Thursday in connection with the alleged rape and murder of two teenage Dalit sisters who were found hanging from a tree in sugarcane field here, police said. The girls' burial took place in a field near their home as their community buries the dead rather than carrying out the cremation if they are children. For several hours their family members had refused to carry out the last rites, demanding compensation and the "death sentence" to the six accused. After several hours of persuasion, they agreed. Police sources said the post-mortem report revealed that the girls, aged 15 and 17, were raped and then strangled. The bodies were found hanging about a kilometre away from their home on Wednesday. The Opposition has slammed the state's BJP-led government over law and order, with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday saying, "Women's safety cannot be expected from those facilitating the release of rapists and welcoming them." The former Congress chief was .

Sandeep Lamichhane, suspended captain of Nepal cricket team, who has been accused of rape, released a public statement on Friday claiming that "he is innocent"

Soon after the figures of NCRB became public, the BJP attacked the Ashok Gehlot government in the state

The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday claimed that 2,756 people accused of rape and other serious crimes against women and children have been punished in a period of over three months.

When an Uber cab driver raped a 25-year-old passenger in Delhi in 2014, the company's first response was to "shift blame to flawed Indian background checks"

A Nevada woman has lost her bid in a US court to force international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo to pay millions of dollars after claiming he raped her in Las Vegas in 2009.

Can dominance of men in the state be cited as the reason for its top position in rape crime? The answer is "yes", according to Rajasthan's Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal.

As the prosecution failed to produce evidence against the accused, the court acquitted the Bishop

The Bombay High Court commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty awarded to convicts in the gangrape case of a 22-year-old photojournalist inside the defunct Shakti Mills compound in Mumbai

Based on the girl's complaint, the Manpada police at Dombivli in Kalyan have registered a case on Wednesday night against 33 accused

Lok Janshakti Party MP Prince Raj has been booked on rape charges here following a direction by a court, police said on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea challenging the Delhi High Court order granting anticipatory bail to a Mumbai-based journalist in a rape case lodged against him by a 22-year-old woman

The vacation bench of the Bombay HC at Goa will hear the state government's petition challenging the acquittal of Tehelka magazine founder editor Tarun Tejpal in a sexual assault case on May 27

The Goa government on Tuesday filed an appeal in the Bombay High Court against former editor-in-chief of Tehelka magazine Tarun Tejpal's acquittal verdict in an alleged sexual assault case