Articles about Crime Against Women
14 Jul 2021
Delhi: Couple kills woman, throws her chopped body into canal
The Delhi Police has arrested a couple for allegedly killing an elderly woman, chopping up her body, and dumping it into a canal in Najafgarh area of the city.
01 Jul 2021
64-year-old ties widowed daughter-in-law with chain, beats her; arrested
A 64-year-old man has been arrested in Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly assaulting his widowed daughter-in-law there.
21 Jun 2021
Wife accuses Bihar IAS officer of torture; man denies allegations
A Bihar cadre IAS officer has been accused of physical and mental torture by his wife who has lodged a police complaint in the Muzaffarpur district of Bihar in connection with the abuse, an official said on Sunday.
21 May 2021
Actress' personal bodyguard booked for raping beautician
A personal bodyguard of a leading Bollywood actress has been booked by the police in Mumbai for allegedly raping a beautician on the pretext of marriage, an official said on Thursday.
14 Apr 2021
Rape accused on the run for nine years arrested
A man on the run for the last nine years after registration of a rape-cum-abduction case against him in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district was arrested on Tuesday.
07 Apr 2021
Man blackmails ex-girlfriend, threatens to upload private videos online; arrested
A 23-year-old man was arrested in Delhi for allegedly blackmailing his ex-girlfriend for money by threatening to upload her private videos and photos on social media, police said on Tuesday.
05 Apr 2021
IIT-Guwahati suspends student arrested on charge of molestation
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati has suspended the student arrested on the charge of molesting a fellow woman student.
03 Apr 2021
Abducted and raped, Hapur teen found dead outside Noida hospital
A 14-year-old girl was found dead in an ambulance outside a hospital in Noida where she was abandoned by two unidentified people, days after being abducted from Hapur district and gang-raped, officials said on Friday.
03 Apr 2021
Officer accused of demanding sexual favors from rape survivor dismissed
Taking more harsh action against Kailash Bohra, who was given compulsory retirement from the Rajasthan Police Service (RPS) for demanding sexual favors from a rape survivor last month, the State Government ordered his dismissal on Friday.
01 Apr 2021
Singapore court jails, fines Indian national for molesting Vietnamese woman
An Indian national was sentenced by a Singapore court to four weeks in prison and fined Singapore dollars 8,000 for molesting a Vietnamese woman who worked at his office.
23 Mar 2021
Uttar Pradesh: Two sisters found dead in Pilibhit village
Two teenage sisters were found dead in Jasauli village, police said on Tuesday.
19 Mar 2021
Sarah Everard: UK woman's disappearance, death sets off a movement
The disappearance and death of Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old United Kingdom woman, has brought the nation's public institutions under intense scrutiny.
06 Mar 2021
Raped 27 years ago, woman files complaint against two
Raped on several occasions by two men at the age of 12 about 27 years ago, the victim, who had become a mother, has now lodged a case against the accused on court orders after her son inquired about his father's name.
05 Mar 2021
Police: Rape survivor set ablaze in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh
A 33-year-old rape survivor was set afire in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh district, police said on Friday.
03 Mar 2021
Maharashtra: Girls stripped, forced to dance in government-run hostel
The Maharashtra government has formed a four-member high-level committee to conduct a probe into an incident where girls were allegedly stripped and forced to dance by policemen at a state-run hostel in Jalgaon, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Wednesday.
03 Mar 2021
UP: Man kills wife, two daughters over suspected illicit relations
A 60-year-old man allegedly bludgeoned his wife and two daughters to death with a hammer at their house in Bulandshahr over suspicion that they had illicit relationships with outsiders, police said on Wednesday.
03 Mar 2021
Man attacks techie in Hyderabad for rejecting marriage proposal
A woman software engineer was injured when a man allegedly attacked her using a knife, at her residence in Hyderabad, for turning down his marriage proposal, police said.
02 Mar 2021
Aligarh: Dalit girl was strangulated, no clear evidence of rape
The postmortem report of the teenage Dalit girl, whose body was found on Sunday in Aligarh, has not indicated any clear evidence of rape and found that she was strangulated to death, a senior official said.
02 Mar 2021
Uttar Pradesh: Serial rapist held after encounter in Greater Noida
A serial rapist wanted in multiple cases of crime against women was arrested following an encounter with the police in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida on Monday, the officials said.
15 Dec 2020
Man loses bet, lets friends rape wife, pours acid later
In what qualifies as a horrifying incident, a man in Bihar allowed his friends to rape his wife after he lost a gambling bet. The victim, used as an object by her husband, later went through another ordeal as he poured acid on her, in a bid to "purify her," reports IANS.
01 Nov 2020
Andhra Pradesh: 17-year-old girl killed after argument over 'rejection'
A 17-year-old girl was killed on Saturday night after a man slit her throat following a heated argument in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam.
28 Oct 2020
#HaryanaMurder: Tauseef killed Nikita as she was marrying another man
The main accused in the murder of 21-year-old Nikita Tomar in Haryana, Tauseef, has confessed to the crime and told police that her imminent wedding with someone else drove him to kill her.
26 Oct 2020
Arrested for harassing women, Delhi-cop to be dismissed from duty
Delhi Police will soon dismiss the 35-year-old sub-inspector, who was arrested for stalking and harassing four women, including a minor, between October 17 and 20.
15 Oct 2020
Woman, locked inside toilet by husband for 1.5 years, rescued
Married for 17 years, a woman in Haryana was subjected to inhumane treatment by her husband for over a year. She was locked up inside a toilet and not given much to eat.
05 Oct 2020
25-year-old gang-raped, assaulted in Gurugram, suffers head injuries; four arrested
Even as India remains outraged over the gang-rape, assault, and subsequent death of a 19-year-old woman, belonging to the Scheduled Caste in Uttar Pradesh, heinous crimes against women are not abating, as one case from Gurugram shows.
20 Sep 2020
UP man slits pregnant wife's belly to determine baby's gender
In a horrifying incident, a man in Uttar Pradesh allegedly split open his pregnant wife's belly to determine the gender of the baby on Saturday evening.
27 Aug 2020
UP: Couple beaten, tonsured, garlanded with shoes over "illicit affair"
A woman, Kamlesh Kumari, and her lover, identified as Ravindra Baheliya, both residents of a village in Gursahaiganj, Kannauj district, Uttar Pradesh, were brutally beaten by the woman's family members and other villagers who were opposed to their relationship, Hindustan Times reported.
22 Aug 2020
Sexually exploited 5,000+ times over decade, Hyderabad woman files complaint
A 25-year-old woman in Telangana's Hyderabad has leveled shocking allegations of sexual exploitation against nearly 150 persons over several years.
06 Aug 2020
Gurugram: Woman critical after being stabbed by stalker 30 times
In a shocking incident, a 23-year-old woman was left fighting for her life after being stabbed 30 times by her former classmate this week.
30 Jun 2020
Asked to wear mask, Andhra government employee brutally assaults woman
In a shocking incident, a government employee in Andhra Pradesh brutally assaulted a woman colleague after she asked him to wear a mask.
23 Jun 2020
TikTok star stabs 19-year-old days before her wedding, arrested
A TikTok user having over 4 lakh followers has been arrested by Ghaziabad Police for stabbing a woman to death, just days before her wedding.
01 May 2020
Madhya Pradesh: Seven, including three minors, rape 18-year-old
In a gut-wrenching incident, seven men, including three minors, raped an 18-year-old in Madhya Pradesh on the intervening night of April 29 and 30, making it the fourth rape case to be reported from the central state since the coronavirus-linked lockdown started.
02 Apr 2020
Coronavirus lockdown: France to shift domestic violence victims to hotels
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, as lockdowns across several parts of the world forced people indoors, the incidents of domestic abuse have surged.
06 Mar 2020
Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed abducted daughters, UK court finds
A United Kingdom court has accepted as proved the allegations of abduction, torture, and threats against the billionaire ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (70).
08 Feb 2020
Delhi: Woman cop killed by batchmate near Rohini Metro
In a tragic incident, a woman police officer was shot dead in Delhi's Rohini locality on Friday night.
13 Dec 2019
UP: Dancer, shot for stopping performance, will need multiple surgeries
She was performing at a wedding function on November 30, paused to catch a breath, and her life took a deadly turn as she was shot at.
07 Dec 2019
Unnao becomes UP's 'rape capital'; 86 cases reported this year
A day after the Unnao rape victim died, a report states that the district now qualifies as the "rape capital" of Uttar Pradesh.
30 Sep 2019
Denied food, tortured by Misa: Lalu's daughter-in-law makes shocking claims
At a time when rains have ravaged Bihar and taken several lives, the state's capital Patna remained in news for an entirely different reason.
24 Sep 2019
Court gives breather to student, who accused Chinmayanand of rape
The 23-year-old law student, who accused former Union Minister and BJP leader Chinmayanand of rape, got a reprieve on Tuesday after a court agreed to hear her plea seeking protection from arrest in connection to extortion case filed against her.
21 Sep 2019
Showing middle finger to woman can put you behind bars
According to a recent judgment by a Delhi court, showing middle finger to a woman can land you in prison.
