May 2012
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Dowry Death: Husband and family members face... →
A man and his five family members, facing trial for dowry death of his wife, have been slapped by a Delhi court with an additional charge of murdering her in cold blood, after a photograph of her body, hanging from a ceiling fan, showed her knees touching and bent on the bed. Public Prosecutor P K Verma, pointed out that the photograph clearly showed that height of the ceiling from the bed was not...
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Gujarat: 50 year old woman Madhuben Goel beaten to... →
A 50-year-old woman was allegedly beaten to death by four persons, including two women, when she tried to save her son from their attack over a minor issue at a village near here, police said.
One Madhuben Goel died in the incident, when she went to save her son Ashok from the attack of four persons in Tundel village in Nadiad taluka on Saturday night, they said.
The four had started beating...
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Imphal: 16 year old girl thrown into a river by... →
A 16-year-old girl was thrown into a river after being beaten up by her boyfriend as they quarreled over elopement at Nongmaikhong Machin Umathel Thongkhong under Kumbi Police Station in Bishnupur district, police sources said here today.
The incident occurred around 10 pm yesterday when the girl , a resident of Wangoo Sabal in the district was allegedly raped by her boyfriend after...
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Femicide: Mother to 4 daughters, Vijaymala dies... →
Sudam and Saraswati Munde, the doctor couple from Parli in Beed district responsible for the death of a 30-year-old pregnant woman have been booked under Section 304 of IPC.
Along with doctors, the victim’s husband Mahadev Pattekar has also been charged under the provisions of the Act, which amounts to culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
The woman, Vijaymala Mahadev Pattekar,...
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Investigation into the mysterious death of 8 year... →
Vonkita, a Class 2 student of Government Primary School in Kengeri, went missing on the evening of March 3, 2012. Her body was found on the railway tracks between Kengeri and Hejjala railway stations on March 4.
Investigation has revealed that she was raped and murdered. The police suspect the rapist had strangled her when she had screamed for help on the night of March 3. The City Railway...
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Neighbors nab 40 year old man who molested his... →
Some residents of Malvani, Malad west, on Sunday took it upon themselves to “punish” a man who allegedly sexually abused his daughter over the past four years.
Police said the suspect, who works for a private firm, has four children — three daughters and a son. Senior police inspector A Shaikh said the accused was brought to the police station by residents on Sunday morning after they caught...
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Woman abducted and gang raped by 6 men in Delhi.... →
A 32-year-old woman was abducted and gang raped by six people in south-east Delhi at different locations within four hours.
After her work on Friday, the victim was waiting for a bus. Four youths, including one who was aquainted to the woman, asked her to sit in an Gramin Sewa autorickshaw around 7 pm.
They took her to an isolated land at Nehru Place in south-east Delhi and the three...
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Chennai: Man gets 8 years in Jail for forcing his... →
A Mahila Court here on Friday sentenced a person to undergo eight-year rigorous imprisonment for causing his wife’s death by demanding and harassing her for dowry.
Sessions Judge Meena Sathish said the woman died only because of harassment and cruelty by her husband demanding jewellery and an autorickshaw.
According to the prosecution, D. Rita married M. Velu of Rajamangalam in June 2006...
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Kolkata: Brothers arrested for raping woman. →
A youth was arrested on Sunday for allegedly raping a woman in Shyampukur a month ago. His brother, who had stood guard during the crime, was also picked up.
“The woman said in her complaint that Sushovan Kundu had raped while his brother Sudip stood guard in the staircase,” said an officer of Shyampukur police station, where the victim filed a complaint on Saturday. “The law says that if more...
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Dowry Harassment: 26 year old Nitu Sharma hangs... →
A 26-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide in north-east Delhi apparently depressed over dowry harassment, police said today. The incident was reported from Karawal Nagar last evening and the deceased has been identified as Nitu Sharma. She was found hanging by her father-in-law in their house.
She was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was declared brought dead.No suicide note was...
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Gujarat: 4 year old girl molested by her 40 year... →
A four-year-old girl was molested by her 40-year-old neighbour in Isanpur.
“Families of both the accused and the victim are labourers at a nearby industrial estate,” said AJ Bhagora, inspector of Isanpur police station. “The complaint states Vora took the girl with him at 7.15 pm on the pretext of buying her some snacks. He, however, took her to his house and started...
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West Bengal: Newly wed girl refuses to pay... →
A girl was forced to return to her parents’ house a day after she was married for refusing to pay extra dowry.
Police said soon after the wedding feast was over, Samir (husband) asked his wife Anna to arrange Rs 4,000 as dowry in addition to Rs 6,000 already paid under an agreement.
As the girl refused to pay the amount, the husband and his relatives forced her to leave for her...
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Abducted and gang raped, 12 year old girl returns... →
A 12-year-old girl, who went missing from her residence in Juhapura on April 17, has returned home. She was abducted and gang raped. A complaint was registered at Vejalpur police station and the girl was admitted to the Sola Civil Hospital for treatment and collection of evidence. Police believe the girl was forced into a prostitution racket by a young woman and her two accomplices.
On April...
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Husband , Father in law arrested for keeping 20... →
The RS Puram All Woman police on Friday arrested a man and his father for allegedly keeping a woman in confinement and harassing her demanding dowry. The mother-in-law of the woman is absconding.
According to police, A Anjali, 20, of Kovaipudur was studying B Com final year in a private college here. M Ashwinkumar, 22, of RS Puram had completed BE and was staying with his father B Manoharan and...
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Delhi: Law student arrested for harassing woman on... →
A 22-year-old law student has been arrested at his Dilshad Garden residence in north-east Delhi for harassing a woman by uploading her mobile phone number on a fictitious Facebook account.
Shubham Kansal, a final year student of a law school in Uttar Pradesh, had also uploaded “raunchy and provocative” photographs of some unidentified woman and kept an open invitation for friendship on the...
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Assam: Doctor chargesheeted after investigation of... →
Police have filed a charge-sheet in the court against a doctor for allegedly raping his patient. The charge-sheet under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, has been filed by the officer-in-charge of the Dholai police station on March 13 at the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate in the district of Cachar after investigation of a case filed by a minor girl on November 27, 2011.
Source:...
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Man arrested for assaulting minor daughter with... →
A man was arrested for allegedly assaulting his minor daughter with the intent to outrage her modesty in Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Saturday.
Suresh Kumar allegedly assaulted his 17-year-old daughter in the absence of other family members at Alempur Village last evening, they said.
Police registered a case against the father and arrested him after the daughter accused him of...
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Nagpur: 30 year old man arrested for killing his... →
Police arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly killing his wife on May 7, earlier this month. Police has claimed that Suresh Motghare killed his wife, suspecting her fidelity, inflicting multiple stab injuries on her. A resident of Gondia district, Motghare had dumped his wife’s body at Ringabodi village on Nagpur-Amravati Road but was caught after police managed to establish her...
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West Bengal: Gang molests woman, beats her up for... →
A gang of five waylaid a woman in a residential locality in Barrackpore on Friday night and molested her in front of her family members when she tried to fight back.
The woman and some of her relatives - all of them elderly women - had boarded an autorickshaw at Manikdanga on their way to attend a wedding. It was around 10pm and there were few people on the road. Five youngsters, lounging on...
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Supreme court dismisses bail plea of man accused... →
The Supreme Court on dismissed the bail plea of Sumit Bhuttan, who is currently in jail for allegedly murdering his 28-year-old wife for dowry last year. His wife, Ruchi, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her DLF Phase-2 residence in July last year. While rejecting the bail plea, a division bench of justices BS Chauhan and Jagdish Singh Kehar asked the prosecution to expedite the hearing in...
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Dowry Death: Husband and family members face... →
A man and his five family members, facing trial for dowry death of his wife, have been slapped by a Delhi court with an additional charge of murdering her in cold blood, after a photograph of her body, hanging from a ceiling fan, showed her knees touching and bent on the bed. Public Prosecutor P K Verma, pointed out that the photograph clearly showed that height of the ceiling from the bed was not...
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Femicide: Mother to 4 daughters, Vijaymala dies... →
Sudam and Saraswati Munde, the doctor couple from Parli in Beed district responsible for the death of a 30-year-old pregnant woman have been booked under Section 304 of IPC.
Along with doctors, the victim’s husband Mahadev Pattekar has also been charged under the provisions of the Act, which amounts to culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
The woman, Vijaymala Mahadev Pattekar,...
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Gujarat: 50 year old woman Madhuben Goel beaten to... →
A 50-year-old woman was allegedly beaten to death by four persons, including two women, when she tried to save her son from their attack over a minor issue at a village near here, police said.
One Madhuben Goel died in the incident, when she went to save her son Ashok from the attack of four persons in Tundel village in Nadiad taluka on Saturday night, they said.
The four had started beating...
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Imphal: 16 year old girl thrown into a river by... →
A 16-year-old girl was thrown into a river after being beaten up by her boyfriend as they quarreled over elopement at Nongmaikhong Machin Umathel Thongkhong under Kumbi Police Station in Bishnupur district, police sources said here today.
The incident occurred around 10 pm yesterday when the girl , a resident of Wangoo Sabal in the district was allegedly raped by her boyfriend after...
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Neighbors nab 40 year old man who molested his... →
Some residents of Malvani, Malad west, on Sunday took it upon themselves to “punish” a man who allegedly sexually abused his daughter over the past four years.
Police said the suspect, who works for a private firm, has four children — three daughters and a son. Senior police inspector A Shaikh said the accused was brought to the police station by residents on Sunday morning after they caught...
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Investigation into the mysterious death of 8 year... →
Vonkita, a Class 2 student of Government Primary School in Kengeri, went missing on the evening of March 3, 2012. Her body was found on the railway tracks between Kengeri and Hejjala railway stations on March 4.
Investigation has revealed that she was raped and murdered. The police suspect the rapist had strangled her when she had screamed for help on the night of March 3. The City Railway...
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Woman abducted and gang raped by 6 men in Delhi.... →
A 32-year-old woman was abducted and gang raped by six people in south-east Delhi at different locations within four hours.
After her work on Friday, the victim was waiting for a bus. Four youths, including one who was aquainted to the woman, asked her to sit in an Gramin Sewa autorickshaw around 7 pm.
They took her to an isolated land at Nehru Place in south-east Delhi and the three...
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Kolkata: Brothers arrested for raping woman. →
A youth was arrested on Sunday for allegedly raping a woman in Shyampukur a month ago. His brother, who had stood guard during the crime, was also picked up.
“The woman said in her complaint that Sushovan Kundu had raped while his brother Sudip stood guard in the staircase,” said an officer of Shyampukur police station, where the victim filed a complaint on Saturday. “The law says that if more...
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Chennai: Man gets 8 years in Jail for forcing his... →
A Mahila Court here on Friday sentenced a person to undergo eight-year rigorous imprisonment for causing his wife’s death by demanding and harassing her for dowry.
Sessions Judge Meena Sathish said the woman died only because of harassment and cruelty by her husband demanding jewellery and an autorickshaw.
According to the prosecution, D. Rita married M. Velu of Rajamangalam in June 2006...
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Dowry Harassment: 26 year old Nitu Sharma hangs... →
A 26-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide in north-east Delhi apparently depressed over dowry harassment, police said today. The incident was reported from Karawal Nagar last evening and the deceased has been identified as Nitu Sharma. She was found hanging by her father-in-law in their house.
She was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was declared brought dead.No suicide note was...
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Gujarat: 4 year old girl molested by her 40 year... →
A four-year-old girl was molested by her 40-year-old neighbour in Isanpur.
“Families of both the accused and the victim are labourers at a nearby industrial estate,” said AJ Bhagora, inspector of Isanpur police station. “The complaint states Vora took the girl with him at 7.15 pm on the pretext of buying her some snacks. He, however, took her to his house and started...
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West Bengal: Newly wed girl refuses to pay... →
A girl was forced to return to her parents’ house a day after she was married for refusing to pay extra dowry.
Police said soon after the wedding feast was over, Samir (husband) asked his wife Anna to arrange Rs 4,000 as dowry in addition to Rs 6,000 already paid under an agreement.
As the girl refused to pay the amount, the husband and his relatives forced her to leave for her...
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Abducted and gang raped, 12 year old girl returns... →
A 12-year-old girl, who went missing from her residence in Juhapura on April 17, has returned home. She was abducted and gang raped. A complaint was registered at Vejalpur police station and the girl was admitted to the Sola Civil Hospital for treatment and collection of evidence. Police believe the girl was forced into a prostitution racket by a young woman and her two accomplices.
On April...
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Delhi: Law student arrested for harassing woman on... →
A 22-year-old law student has been arrested at his Dilshad Garden residence in north-east Delhi for harassing a woman by uploading her mobile phone number on a fictitious Facebook account.
Shubham Kansal, a final year student of a law school in Uttar Pradesh, had also uploaded “raunchy and provocative” photographs of some unidentified woman and kept an open invitation for friendship on the...
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Husband , Father in law arrested for keeping 20... →
The RS Puram All Woman police on Friday arrested a man and his father for allegedly keeping a woman in confinement and harassing her demanding dowry. The mother-in-law of the woman is absconding.
According to police, A Anjali, 20, of Kovaipudur was studying B Com final year in a private college here. M Ashwinkumar, 22, of RS Puram had completed BE and was staying with his father B Manoharan and...
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Man arrested for assaulting minor daughter with... →
A man was arrested for allegedly assaulting his minor daughter with the intent to outrage her modesty in Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Saturday.
Suresh Kumar allegedly assaulted his 17-year-old daughter in the absence of other family members at Alempur Village last evening, they said.
Police registered a case against the father and arrested him after the daughter accused him of...
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Assam: Doctor chargesheeted after investigation of... →
Police have filed a charge-sheet in the court against a doctor for allegedly raping his patient. The charge-sheet under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, has been filed by the officer-in-charge of the Dholai police station on March 13 at the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate in the district of Cachar after investigation of a case filed by a minor girl on November 27, 2011.
Source:...
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West Bengal: Gang molests woman, beats her up for... →
A gang of five waylaid a woman in a residential locality in Barrackpore on Friday night and molested her in front of her family members when she tried to fight back.
The woman and some of her relatives - all of them elderly women - had boarded an autorickshaw at Manikdanga on their way to attend a wedding. It was around 10pm and there were few people on the road. Five youngsters, lounging on...
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Nagpur: 30 year old man arrested for killing his... →
Police arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly killing his wife on May 7, earlier this month. Police has claimed that Suresh Motghare killed his wife, suspecting her fidelity, inflicting multiple stab injuries on her. A resident of Gondia district, Motghare had dumped his wife’s body at Ringabodi village on Nagpur-Amravati Road but was caught after police managed to establish her...
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Supreme court dismisses bail plea of man accused... →
The Supreme Court on dismissed the bail plea of Sumit Bhuttan, who is currently in jail for allegedly murdering his 28-year-old wife for dowry last year. His wife, Ruchi, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her DLF Phase-2 residence in July last year. While rejecting the bail plea, a division bench of justices BS Chauhan and Jagdish Singh Kehar asked the prosecution to expedite the hearing in...
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Rescued: 12 year old girl who had been forced by... →
A 12-year-old girl who had been forced to marry an Uttar Pradesh man twice her age by her parents sneaked out of the house on the day she was supposed to be taken to the north Indian state and sought a neighbour’s help.
Her parents, who took Rs 40,000 from the groom’s family for the marriage, have fled while her husband, his aunt and grandfather have been arrested.
The neighbor who helped in...
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Hyderabad: Woman who had come to the city in... →
A 19-year-old housewife from Karimnagar district, who had come to city in search of work, was gang-raped by two persons in Saifabad, the police said on Friday.
According to police, the woman left the house of her in-laws on Wednesday after quarrelling with them on some family matter. She decided to live separately and came to city to find work. After getting off the bus at Mahatma Gandhi Bus...
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Faridabad: Seven booked for dowry harassment. →
Seven people have been booked for allegedly harassing and threatening to kill a woman over dowry demands. The people who were arrested on Friday from Faridabad, include the woman’s husband Bhagat.
“Jyoti had registered a complaint that her in-laws were demanding Rs. 3 lakh cash and a car as dowry since her marriage in May 2009,” a police spokesman said.
Source: Press Trust...
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Domestic Violence: 28 year old Rynjeta Mawiong... →
A woman identified as Rynjeta Mawiong (28) was brutally murdered by her husband, Stanjoy Sohkhwai at their residence in Sohkyrbam, Ri Bhoi District (5km away from Patharkhmah) on Wednesday night.
According to sources, the incident took place at around 10 pm on Wednesday night. The woman was strangled to death by her husband who later said that it was a suicide case. Police sources said that...
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VP level executive of top Pharma Company sacked... →
Torrent Pharmaceuticals has sacked a top executive after he was found guilty of sexually harassing a woman colleague. “An internal inquiry was carried out, which concluded that the allegations were true. Otherwise an efficient employee, the top executive was immediately shown the door,” said a Torrent official on condition of anonymity.
Last year, another Ahmedabad-based pharma major...
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Nearly 120 people, including women, girls and... →
Nearly 120 people, including women, girls and children, were rescued from a protection home in Haryana’s Rohtak town following a raid conducted by a team of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR).
The raid was conducted by the NCPCR team at the Apna Ghar (child welfare house), Mahila-Aawas (women protection house) and the family consultation centre in Shri Nagar...
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Odisha: Pregnant maid thrown off bridge, survives.... →
A retired judge, his wife and son were arrested on Wednesday on charges of trying to kill their 23-year-old pregnant domestic help.
Mini Pradhan alleged that she was thrown off the Mahanad river barrage in Cuttack by contract killers, ostensibly at the behest of the retired judge and his kin. She claimed that she had an affair with the judge’s son, and became pregnant.
“They...
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Delhi: Two day old baby girl found abandoned... →
A two-day-old girl was found abandoned inside an under-construction drain in the Sagarpur area of southwest Delhi. She had swellings in her face due to mosquito bites but doctors said her vital parameters were stable. The child was admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhay Hospital, police said.
Source: TNN | May 11, 2012
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Couple arrested for trying to bury their 45 day... →
The parents of a one and a half month old baby girl have been arrested for trying to bury their child alive in a graveyard.
The incident came to light on Wednesday, when one of the trustees who was at the burial ground heard a baby cry and figured something was amiss.
Bharati has reportedly told the police she was burying the child on the advice of a godman after he told her that this would...
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Honour Killing: Village mob lynches woman, man... →
Chitra, a 29-year old caste Hindu, was lynched by a village mob for her alleged relationship with Madhavan. Madhavan, a Dalit, has literally escaped the noose and is grateful that he is still alive.
On Tuesday morning, he was dangling from a sari, after he was forced to attempt suicide.
The honour killing took place on Tuesday just after dawn in Vandal in Vedaranyam. Chitra and Madhavan were...
