Latest Rape Case News & Updates

Mumbai, Feb 24 (IANS) Actor Aditya Pancholi attended the hearing at the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. The court heard the petition for the 28th time filed by the actor to quash the FIR filed against him in the alleged rape case. The case was filed by a female actor in 2019. The actor said that he cannot say anything more on the legal procedure, and the outcome of the case will be on March 4. His lawyer Prashant Patil said that the FIR of rape (IPC 376 among other sections) registered at Versova …

New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court is likely to take up the expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s bail application on February 9, in the custodial death case of the Unnao rape survivor’s father, a lawyer said on Saturday. Sengar is currently serving a 10-year jail sentence in the case.The former Legislator’s application in the apex court challenges an earlier decision of the Delhi High Court to reject his application for suspension of the jail sentence in the…

New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday rejected a plea filed by expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar seeking suspension of his 10-year sentence in the custodial death case of the Unnao rape survivor’s father. A single-judge Bench of Justice Ravinder Dudeja dismissed Sengar’s second application for suspension of sentence and grant of bail, citing the gravity of the offence, his criminal antecedents and the absence of any new subsequent development…

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 11 (IANS) The members of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), which is the youth wing of CPI(M), and the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) on Sunday held separate demonstrations against Rahul Mamkootathil, the expelled Congress MLA, who has been arrested in connection with a rape case. The protest erupted when the police brought the arrested MLA, who was earlier the Youth Congress Kerala president, to the Pathanamthitta district general hospital for a mandat…

Kochi, Jan 7 (IANS) The Kerala High Court on Wednesday extended the interim order staying the arrest of Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkoottathil in a rape case till January 21, while deferring a final decision on his plea for anticipatory bail. The court said it would hear detailed arguments on the matter on that day before taking a call on whether the legislator should be granted pre-arrest protection.During the hearing, the High Court allowed the complainant to be impleaded as a party in the anticipat…