Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) A civic volunteer has been arrested in Howrah on charges of allegedly molesting a teenage girl who later died by suicide, police said on Thursday.According to a senior police officer, the accused civic volunteer was arrested following the incident that took place in Amta under the Howrah Rural Police District on Wednesday.Police said the girl had gone to attend a Kali Puja event in Amta with her mother on Tuesday night. The accused, a civic volunteer attached to Penro Po…
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Gandhinagar, March 11 (IANS) The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested 29 terrorists linked to international extremist organisations over the past three years, Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi told the state Assembly on Wednesday.Addressing the House, Sanghavi said the arrests were made between 2023 and 2026 after investigators uncovered several alleged anti-national conspiracies, including an Al-Qaeda funding network, a module of the Islamic State Khorasan Province operating from …
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) Another allegation of sexual harassment of a teenager in Kolkata surfaced on Monday, with a man being arrested for showing an obscene video to his friend’s minor daughter after taking advantage of an empty house, police said.The police have registered a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and started an investigation. The accused is being questioned.According to police sources, the victim is 16 years old and lives with her parents in a re…
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) The adjudication of voters’ documents identified under the “logical discrepancy” category by the judicial officers, as directed by the Supreme Court last week, will start from Monday.The process is expected to start after 11 a.m., and as per the direction of the apex court, the decision of judicial adjudicators regarding the fate of such voters’ documents will be final.The judicial adjudication process will start on Monday, with the initial involvement of 150 sessi…
Varanasi, Feb 21 (IANS) Swami Avimukteshwaranand, on Saturday, asserted that the FIR ordered against him in a child sexual abuse case would ultimately expose what he described as “false matter”, expressing full faith in the judicial process and saying that the truth would emerge through investigation.Speaking in media persons, Swami Avimukteshwaranand said the legal process would ultimately reveal the truth.”Filing a case is appropriate, because once the case is registered, further investigation…
Lucknow, Feb 20 (IANS) Calling it a “rarest of rare” case of unparalleled depravity, a Special POCSO Court in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda, on Friday, sentenced to death a government junior engineer (JE) and his wife after holding them guilty of sexually assaulting as many as 33 children, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official said. Rambhawan, employed in the Uttar Pradesh Irrigation department, and his wife Durgawati, were sentenced to death for the various offences under the Indian Penal Co…
Indore, Feb 10 (IANS) In a disturbing incident, a manager of a coaching institute in Indore has been arrested under the charges of alleged molestation of a minor girl student at the coaching premises, police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred when the girl had gone to attend the coaching institute located on Narenra Tiwari road under Annapoorna police station in the city during the evening hours on Monday.The girl immediately informed her parents, who, along with some other relatives, barged…
Kolkata, Feb 8 (IANS) The Kolkata Police have apprehended two men in relation to the gang-rape of a minor in the Patuli area of the capital city, officials said on Sunday.According to police sources, the minor girl was allegedly taken to a secluded room in the Patuli police station area in south Kolkata on the pretext of going out for a stroll on the eve of Saraswati Puja (January 22) and then was gang-raped.A written complaint was filed by the victim’s family at the Patuli police station after …
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The POCSO Act, 2012, defines a child as any person below the age of 18 years and dilution of the age of consent or introduction of exceptions in matters involving sexual activity may undermine child safety, the Union government told in Lok Sabha on Friday. Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Annpurna Devi, in reply to a query, said, “The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act does not explicitly define the term consent, and under the statutory…
Jaipur, Feb 3 (IANS) In a significant and reportable judgment, the Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday observed that consensual relationships between teenagers or young adults should not be treated as a criminal offence, warning against the misuse of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The court said that indiscriminate application of the law is destroying the future of young people and defeating the very purpose for which POCSO was enacted. A single bench of Justice Anil Ku…