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KOCHI: Malayalam actor Dileep has accused some police officials and a section of the media of hatching a “conspiracy against him” to implicate him in the 2017 sexual assault case of a South Indian actress, claiming the aim was to destroy his career. Speaking to reporters shortly after his acquittal on Monday, Dileep said the…
KOCHI: The Ernakulam principal sessions court on Monday acquitted Actor Dileepin the high-profile 2017 abduction and rape case.The court found six others, including the prime accused Sunil N S, popularly known as Pulsar Suni, guilty for directly committing the crime.The court also acquitted three other persons in the case. The verdict was delivered by Ernakulam…
Satwinder Singh, an Indian-origin Uber driver in New Zealand, has been sentenced to seven years and two months’ jail for a 2023 incident when he switched the GPS of his cab and diverted to a different route while molesting a teenage passenger. The NZ Herald reported that the teenager had booked a short ride from…
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday introduced a private member’s bill in the Lok Sabha to criminalise marital rape, calling it an urgent need to uphold women’s rights, emphasising India’s constitutional values.Speaking during the introduction of the bill, the veteran Congress leader told the parliament that the…
BENGALURU: A special court for elected representatives in Bengaluru on Tuesday rejected the ‘B report’ — a case-closure report citing insufficient evidence to substantiate the allegations made in a complaint — filed by SIT, stating that there was not enough proof to clear JDS MLC Suraj Revanna of the charges of raping a man.This was…
Saudi student Hamza Albar hailed for stopping attempted rape in Sunderland, UK/Image: X A routine walk turned into a life or death moment for 23 year old Saudi student Hamza Albar, who bravely intervened to stop a violent assault in Sunderland. His quick thinking and fearless action prevented a serious crime and earned him public…
NAGPUR: Forgotten for decades, rescued overnight. A 1972 rape survivor whose case reshaped India’s sexual-assault laws was found living in a collapsing hut in eastern Maharashtra, abandoned by welfare systems that should have carried her. A TOI front-page report triggered a wave of response from across India and far beyond, ensuring support for the woman.Maharashtra…
MEERUT: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by her friend’s father and two of his friends after being held captive for 12 days at a house in UP’s Hapur. The survivor’s friend had spiked her drink with sleeping pills after which she lost consciousness and was repeatedly violated, police said on Sunday.SP (Hapur) Kunwar Gyananjay…
Unable to read and write, and with her fingerprints not registering due to age, Mathura can’t access welfare schemes GADCHIROLI: More than five decades after her rape inside a Maharashtra police station sparked protests across India and forced the rewriting of the country’s sexual assault laws, the woman known to the world only as ‘Mathura’…
BHOPAL: Salman, the accused in the six-year-old girl rape case, was injured after trying to escape by seizing a sub-inspector’s gun and firing at the police, SP Raisen Ashutosh Gupta said on Friday.He was arrested in the Gandhinagar area and was being transported to Raisen when the police vehicle broke down near Kiratnagar village in…
