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Representative image (AI) French prosecutors on Tuesday announced that a 79-year-old former educator has been charged with aggravated rape and sexual assault involving 89 minors, with the alleged crimes spanning more than five decades and multiple countries.Speaking to reporters in the southeastern city of Grenoble, public prosecutor Etienne Manteaux said that the accused, Jacques Leveugle…
AI Image Used For Representational Purpose AHMEDABAD: A 42-year-old man from Gujarat has been arrested in the United States on charges of human trafficking, sexual abuse, rape, and theft by deception, following allegations by two women who worked for him at a local business in Kentucky.According to the Paducah police department in Kentucky, Vikas Patel,…
A 28-year-old Vancouver man with known gang links was shot dead in Burnaby on Thursday evening, in what investigators believe is the latest episode in British Columbia’s escalating gang conflict. Dilraj Singh Gill died at the scene after shots were fired near the 3700 block of Canada Way just before 5.30pm.IHIT Sgt. Freda Fong called…
92 Rape Cases Point To Growing Problem; Troubled Childhood, Peer Influence To Blame NEW DELHI: In just the first week of this month, 13 minors in the city were accused of committing four heinous crimes: sexual assault of a boy at a govt school in Rohini, two murders in Shakarpur and Wazirabad, and killing a…
Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina (AP file photo) Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was on Monday sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka after the court convicted her of “crimes against humanity” linked to last year’s student-led protests that ultimately triggered the collapse of her Awami League government in the South…
Benjamin Netanyahu (AP), Joe Biden (PTI) American intelligence agencies learned last year that Israeli military lawyers had raised internal warnings about potential evidence supporting war crimes charges linked to Israel’s Gaza operations, which relied heavily on US-supplied weapons.According to a Reuters report citing former officials, this intelligence was among the most alarming assessments shared with…
NEW DELHI: Quoting a US judgment that said harassing lawyers is a step in the direction of a totalitarian form of govt, Supreme Court on Friday said no investigating agency could issue summons to an advocate for questioning merely because they gave legal opinion, advice or represented a person accused of committing a serious crime…
US hip-hop star Sean “Diddy” Combs has been transferred to a prison in New Jersey to serve his jail term of four years and two months for prostitution-related crimes, a federal register showed Friday. Combs is being held in the low-security Fort Dix prison, some 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of New York, a facility…
NEW DELHI: Cases of crimes against women rose marginally by 0.7% in 2023 to 4.48 lakh from 4.45 lakh in 2022. As in past years, ‘cruelty by husband or relatives’ accounted for the largest share at 29.8% (1.33 lakh cases) involving 1.35 lakh victims, according to NCRB’s Crime in India 2023 report. In 2022, this…
NEW DELHI: Murder cases dipped by around 3% in 2023 compared to 2022, according to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau.In 2023, 27,721 cases of murder leading to 28,587 deaths were registered. In 2022, 28,552 cases of murder, resulting in 29,356 deaths, were registered.As per the report, UP recorded highest number of murder…
