One of the youths took out his mobile phone and began recording the entire incident while one of the accused sexually harassed the girl by removing dupatta and asked her to undress.
This is the fourth death penalty awarded in Odisha after the central government amended the POCSO Act to include the death penalty for rapists of children under 12 years.
Begusarai is on tenterhooks as the news of a Dalit girl being allegedly sexually assaulted by a young man from the Muslim community has come to the fore, raising communal tempers in the region
The accused Arif, Israr and Kalua Khan had gone to steal the buffaloes from the victim's house. When they were unsuccessful, they abducted the little girl instead and raped her in a nearby field.
Reporting of child abuse and sexual assaults meted out to children enrolled in madarsas were considered as taboo until recently and had largely gone un-reported
A decapitated body of a three-year-old girl who went missing from the Tatanagar railway station was found in the bushes in a lane adjoining Ramamdhin Bagan in Jamshedpur
DCW chairperson publishes child rape video and asks Delhi police to investigate old rape case in Hyderbad where the perpetrator has already been arrested