Crime Against Women

Mumbai: The 84-year-old father of a local political leader was arrested on Sunday for stabbing his 80-year-old wife to death and then trying to destroy evidence by burning the body....

Nagpur: Justice Pushpa Ganediwala of the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court recently acquitted a rape accused, stating that it seemed 'highly impossible for a single man to gag the...

Hyderabad: Hyderabad Police have arrested a 45-year-old man, who turned out to be a serial killer. Maina Ramulu, a labourer, was on Tuesday held for murdering two women. Police then...

New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) received 23,722 complaints of crimes committed against women in 2020, the highest in the last six years. Nearly one-fourth of the total...

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a 19-year old Dalit woman by four men in...

Jajpur: A day after she was rescued from Cuttack from her alleged abductor, a 21-year-old woman from Dharmasala in Jajpur district will record her statement before a magistrate on Friday....

Mumbai: The Maharashtra cabinet has approved a draft bill called the ‘Shakti Act’ that has provisions for death penalty, life sentence and hefty fines against culprits committing crimes against women...

Jodhpur: A 35-year-old unemployed man killed his wife for allegedly being taunted about his joblessness on Sunday night. The accused called police after committing the crime and surrendered. “Around 1...

New Delhi: People suffering from mental illness deserve special care and love and are not to be exploited, the Supreme Court said while upholding the conviction and sentence awarded to...

The four men accused in the Hathras gang rape and murder case were taken from Aligarh jail to Gandhi Nagar in Gujarat by the CBI for polygraph (lie detector) test...