Crime Against Women

New Delhi: Two more sections have been added to fight crime against women in the new criminal bill - Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, meant to replace the old India Penal Code...

Bengaluru: A brutal assault on a woman has stirred up Karnataka. So much so that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Home Minister G Parameshwara have promised to look into the matter....

Gurugram: An inhuman act of cruelty and criminality surfaced here, underlining the malaise of oppression against women and children in our society. A 13-year-old girl from Bihar, who worked as domestic...

Bhopal: A 30-year-old Muslim woman was assaulted by her brother-in-law for allegedly voting in favour of BJP in the recent Assembly elections. The incident took place in Ahmedpur area of...

New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court has observed that marital rape cannot be considered an offence under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) if the wife is above the age of...

New Delhi: Kerala's Health Minister Veena George has ordered a probe into the death of Dr Shahana, a 26-year-old doctor who died by suicide in Thiruvananthapuram, allegedly after her boyfriend...

New Delhi: Cases of crime against women have spiked with an increase of 4 per cent seen in states and Union territories while an increase of 12.3 per cent was...

Chandigarh: As many as 142 girl students have revealed that they were sexually harassed by the principal of a government school in Haryana’s Jind district. Around 60 girls had initially...

New Delhi: A 23-year-old man, who had gone to deliver groceries raped the woman who had ordered them. The woman, who lives in a high-rise apartment in Greater Noida, had...

New Delhi: In an act of bravado, a 31-year-old man climbed the pipe to the fourth floor of a hotel in Ahmedabad's Naroda in the early hours of Monday and...