Crimes Against Women

The Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita proposes community service as an alternative to custodial form of punishment for petty crimes.

The victim had gone to Chharra town to write her B.ED examination. While she was returning home, the accused his friends began following her.

Sexual abuse of children in religious organizations like Madarsas and Mosques is one of the least publicized subjects, largely due to the triple taboo involved (sex, minors, and religion)

The woman later filed a complaint with the Kasba police, following which the accused Fazal Hossein was arrested from his residence in the Beniapukur neighbourhood of Kolkata.

The police have filed an FIR under sections 376 and 376(3) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and sections 4 and 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), 2012. Also sections 3(1)(w)(i) and 3(1)(w)(ii) of the SC/ST Act, 1989 have been imposed against the accused.

Some graphic videos of the incident have surfaced on social media in which some hotel staffers could be heard saying that the boy hanged the girl after killing her.

The police have arrested Arshad, Wahid, and Muzaffar in connection with the death of a Hindu woman's in Churu.

Retired IAS officer's wife stated that following the death of a girl named Neha in Karnataka, she is concerned about the safety of her only daughter.

“They were forcing her to convert. Since she didn’t agree to religious conversion, she was murdered,” Niranjan Hiremath, the Congress Councillor from Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC), said

The complainant said that caste-based slurs were used against her and that the accused told her she would have to convert to Islam since she belonged to a backward caste.