Rape

A Sessions Court in Goa on Friday acquitted Tarun Tejpal, former Tehelka editor-in-chief, of all charges in of sexual assault and rape of a junior colleague.

The Delhi high court on Friday granted bail to a man accused of raping a woman, on the grounds that his name was tattooed on her forearm.

The Delhi High Court has said, in crimes which seriously endangers the well being of society, it is not safe to leave the crime doer only because he and victim have settled the dispute amicably, while dismissing petition seeking quashing of FIR by a Muslim man who married a Hindu woman allegedly hiding his real identity.

The Delhi High Court allowed bail to a rape accused under section 376 AB of IPC and Section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 over the ground that there is a delay of 8 hours in the registration of FIR.

The Covid-19 pandemic posed an arduous challenge to the judiciary. Even as it struggled to ensure regular functioning, it managed to give some important judgments.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday has dismissed an appeal against the conviction and Sentence by a man accused for raping a 6-year-old girl while rejecting the contention, accused is one handed and physically impossible to rape.

The High Court asked under what circumstance did the woman state that she was raped earlier? The court asked the state police DGP to investigate.

New Delhi (ILNS): Uttar Pradesh is as lawless as it can get. As the news of two minor Dalit sisters emerged, with their family alleging murder after a failed rape bid, the Fatehpur police, without any care for the Supreme Court’s directive, released the names of the three deceased to the media.

New Delhi (ILNS): The Himachal Pradesh High Court has granted bail to a rape accused on the ground that the girl had consented to the sexual intercourse. He was arrested on the account of raping a minor girl.

New Delhi (ILNS): The Sessions court in Lalitpur district on Monday sentenced a self-styled occultist to life imprisonment in a two-and-a-half-year-old case for raping a woman on the pretext of ‘flogging’ her to cure her.