The Supreme Court on Tuesday posted for July 11 a batch of petitions challenging the pre-mature release of 11 convicts who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots.
"The arrested person was identified as 50-year-old Rafiqul Islam. He allegedly raped a girl at Professor Colony Lama village under Dhekiajuli police station in Sonitpur district two years back and after committing the crime the accused person was absconding,' police said.
"The accused had come to his in-laws house here in the village and he took the girl on the pretext of giving her an ice cream. When the minor was not found for a long time, the family members searched her in nearby areas and informed dial 100 about the matter," Superintendent of Police (SP)
The girls stayed at their relatives' place for the past three years, and were allegedly raped on several occasions, the victims' parents alleged in a complaint to the police.
The Delhi High Court on Friday granted permission to terminate the 25-week pregnancy carried by a gang rape victim. The minor victim had approached the court through her parents seeking permission to terminate the pregnancy. She was gang raped in Nepal in October last year.
The National Commission for Women has taken cognizance of a video which purportedly showed that a minor girl was raped and murdered by a group of men in North Dinajpur's Kaliaganj, West Bengal, said an official release on Saturday.
In the statement, the NCPCR chief stated, "We have received information about the gang-rape incident and murder of a girl child in North Dinajpur in West Bengal. We have received a lot of information from many sources. It is a heinous murder and we are going to investigate it. I myself will
According to the press statement issued by Ernakulam Rural Police, an orthodox church priest Shemavoon Ramba, a native of Pathanamthitta and aged 77 years was arrested for allegedly molesting a 15-year-old girl in Muvattupuzha.